Why I'm Doing This

I am someone who has always done something in extremes. I honestly, think it's probably my worst quality about myself. Never can I just do something normal, no, it has to be all out, all in, and all for.

Which when your friends decide to race a 70.3, you can't help but wonder about the full.

The short answer

I'm insane'.

The longer answer

I've always been someone who moves toward hard things. Not because I like suffering, well at least I think I don't. But because I like who I am on the other side of them.

Running changed something for me. I felt like I had more margin. More patience. A baseline of having done something hard already by 7am.

Why Texas specifically

I live here. It seemed like the obvious choice.

In retrospect, training for a long-distance triathlon in a climate that spends five months trying to cook you alive was maybe not the optimal decision. But it's the one I made. And there's something weirdly appropriate about it, if you can do it in Texas heat, you can do it anywhere.

What I actually want from this

Not a number on a timing chip. Not a finisher photo (though I'll definitely get a finisher photo).

I want to know what I'm capable of when I commit to something for a year and do the work every day even when I don't feel like it. That's it. The race is just the test at the end of the study session.

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More to come. Currently somewhere in the middle of the study session.