I was reviewing my bucket list after returning from my latest trip to the UK where I could check off a few more items.
Stay the night in a castle-check
See the Crown Jewels-check
Ok, what else is on here? Everest… I'm doing that in September. Let's see… do a triathlon. Ok, let's look at races and maybe find one nearby sometime in 2025 since I'll already be in shape from Everest.
So I start looking and lo and behold I find one. It's 3 hours away and on my actual 50th birthday. So I got a book about training for your first triathlon. I read it. I looked at the course. Lake swim vs ocean. That's easy. I can easily do each of the distances solo now but one after the other will be the challenge. The temptation was too much for me. I signed up.
I'm a paper girl despite this digital age so I got myself a small notebook and drew out my training plan. I joined the gym to have access to a pool for conditioning and convenience despite living so close to the water. I got another book on triathlon training and read that one too. Today I officially started my training.
Part of me thinks I have probably lost my mind. Maybe I'm having a mid life crisis of some kind. But, if I'm going to do something crazy at least it's health and fitness oriented. Ok maybe the crazy part is doing the Everest base camp trek a month before the triathlon and not the triathlon.
Either way, I made the most of my first 50 years and I'll be doing everything I can to make the next 50 even better!
My training log book and inspirational stickers. Yes, I'm really doing this.
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