Once upon a time I was fairly fit. In high school it was a result of lots of swimming and soccer. Later I did a lot of ice skating kept me pretty fit. In 2005 though I had knee surgery, met my husband and well ate too much while my knee was getting better. My knee works just fine now (and has for a while), but I never got back into getting up early and vigorous exercise. I've done a decent amount of walking in the past two years, but nothing more.
Triathlons have always intrigued me since I love (at least used to!) swim, like to bike and well, I run occasionally just because it's an efficient way to exercise. Longer distance running like 1/2 and full marathons never really appealed to me, but to test myself by trying a triathlon does. I have a friend from school who ran a triathlon last year, less than one year after having her second baby. Hearing how Tonya was able to complete the race was inspiring - here was someone I know, someone with a full schedule of school, crafting and child wrangling who managed to do not just a triathlon, but an Olympic distance one. I decided I was going to complete a triathlon as well and set a goal of doing a sprint/super sprint one within one year of having my baby.
This blog will detail my training, my return to fitness and hopefully, my successful completion of the try-a-tri triathlon http://www.chelanman.com/ on July 18, 2010. The try-a-tri distance is a version of a super sprint distance - 400m swim, 13 mile bike ride and 5k run. All of those pieces individually are fairly manageable and distances I've managed within the last few years, but doing them all together will definitely be much more difficult than any exercise I've done in a LONG time, if ever. I am hoping to get one of my friends to do the event along with me as well, and that, along with my husband and this blog will help hold me accountable.
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