When I was in my mid 40's, I started feeling creaky.
I thought to myself that I was too young to be old, so I decided to start getting active.
I became a fair weather runner. I ran when it wasn't too hot or wasn't too cold or I wasn't too busy.
As I neared 50, I felt I needed something to distract me from that milestone so I ran more consistently, more often and completed a half marathon. I really enjoyed it so I moved up to marathons, running one a year for the next four years.
Then my wife and I bought a water access camp (rustic cottage) and started to spend a good portion of our summers there. This made it difficult to do any serious run training so I went back to little exercise. I started swimming a bit at the camp. The thought occurred to me that I could do a triathlon since I knew how to run, was learning how to swim and figured biking would come back to me.
I signed up for a try a tri. It was short but I suffered greatly on the run. I trained a little more intelligently and moved up to a sprint. It went really smoothly and I was hooked. Here's my race report from that time.
That was four years ago and this year I came 24th in my age group at the World Triathlon Championships in Mexico! I love the all around body fitness, the challenge of learning all three sports and trying to combine all the sports for an optimal race.
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Old and Creaky
From sedentary to World Championships
I thought to myself that I was too young to be old, so I decided to start getting active.
I became a fair weather runner. I ran when it wasn't too hot or wasn't too cold or I wasn't too busy.
As I neared 50, I felt I needed something to distract me from that milestone so I ran more consistently, more often and completed a half marathon. I really enjoyed it so I moved up to marathons, running one a year for the next four years.
Then my wife and I bought a water access camp (rustic cottage) and started to spend a good portion of our summers there. This made it difficult to do any serious run training so I went back to little exercise. I started swimming a bit at the camp. The thought occurred to me that I could do a triathlon since I knew how to run, was learning how to swim and figured biking would come back to me.
That was four years ago and this year I came 24th in my age group at the World Triathlon Championships in Mexico! I love the all around body fitness, the challenge of learning all three sports and trying to combine all the sports for an optimal race.
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