Nerves and Anticipation When My Triathlon is a Week Away…

The next triathlon I’ll be participating in is exactly a week away. Hard to believe how fast time flies when you’re having fun training for a race. It seems like just yesterday I wrote about how it was a month away. Without having official data to prove it, I strongly believe I’ve improved my swimmingContinue reading “Nerves and Anticipation When My Triathlon is a Week Away…”

A special triathlon moment I won’t forget…

Just think about it for a second, if you look at your face every day when you get up and think you’ll never be great, you’ll never be great, not because you’re not, but the hate will always find a way to cut you up and murder your faith. NF “The Search” In a lotContinue reading “A special triathlon moment I won’t forget…”

Bathing suits or swimsuits?

I’m 44 years old and it’s just now dawning on me that I’ve called bathing suits, bathing suits my entire life. Just like everyone (I think?), I assumed what I learned things were called is what everyone called them. Then, to my surprise, I found out there are different names for the same exact thing.Continue reading “Bathing suits or swimsuits?”

Coming Up For Air – My Second Sprint Triathlon

I just sat down at my computer to check how my times matched up against the results from my first sprint triathlon and I’m so happy to say I did better in each of the three events. Swimming, which was my weakest event in the first race, was improved a lot! This was because IContinue reading “Coming Up For Air – My Second Sprint Triathlon”

Tri, Tri Again

I finished another sprint triathlon although I ALMOST vowed to never do it again a couple of months ago. I had an embarrassing swim and the rest was very mediocre. But this one was much different! Short distances on the swimming and biking were good for me. My brother-in-law and I ended very happy withContinue reading “Tri, Tri Again”