Swim - bike - run...
Three hour drive, big pasta dinner, night in a B&B, swim, bike, run and drive home again. This is my life for at least the 6 weekends a year where I participate in triathlons across the South and Midlands of the UK. A good friend of mine got me into this sport a year ago and I have taken quite a shine to it.
First tip of successful triathlon participation - leave your dignity at home. This is a sport of lycra and participants of all abilities and physical statures. You see the buff, the not so buff and the downright fat. Perhaps you, like me, are one lof the latter yourself. Irrespective of what shape you are in, what is important is that you are setting yourself apart for more than 99.9% of the population because you belong to a strange group of people who love pain called "triathletes".
Over the course of the coming months, I'll be sharing with you my own triathlon journey. I hope that some of my experiences with help those of you considering doing your first triathlon get out there and do it. I'll also share with some of the tips that I come across whuch will hopefully culminate in me doing an Ironman distance in September 2007.
I hope you'll join me...