The Danskin Triathlon, that is.

Don't ask me where this came from, other than I'm always one for setting goals. For long-time readers, can you believe it's been five years since I did that first triathlon? I can barely. I was trolling through pictures and messing around at the site and I stumbled on pictures from the triathlon and it hit me:

1) I'm twenty pounds lighter than that first triathlon. I did it at 160 pounds. Now I'm 141. Well, so that's 19 pounds but whatever.
2) I ride my bike 10 miles round trip almost every day to work. Almost every day. Twelve miles is nothing. Plus I have a nice new road bike, as opposed to a clunky ol' mountain bike.
3) While I've not been running much in the last month or two, I'm still running and not worried about my cardio.

I just pulled up my results from that 2003 race and while I'm still proud of what I did, yeesh! I could kick the crap out of that performance NOW if I had to. I mean, right now. I'm in great shape, I wouldn't be starting from the beginning and how much fun would that be?

So I'm in. I'm excited, it gives me something to look forward to for the summer, competition wise, and it'll keep me honest where my training is concerned. Like I said, my newfound love for weight training is fine, but I need to keep up with the running. I don't have a pool, so I'll need to work out the details for that, but I think the park district will be a fine solution.

Yay triathlon!

Posted by Erin at 07:51 PM | filed under: Training