sneaking quietly in the door

I actually don't know that I'll EVER have the nerve to do an actual triathlon, but I'd love to do the training for one. Does that make ANY sense?

My husband and I have been swimming fairly seriously (for middle-aged geezers) for about a year. He's roughly twice as fast as I am, but I can keep swimming as long as he can We've done some serious long-distance biking, culminating in a 500-mile, week-long ride last summer. So the idea of a triathlon sort of naturally comes to mind. It would come a whole lot more naturally to mind if I were a better runner, that's for sure. But I just hate the notion that I'm not running because I can't. If I could and chose not to, that would be a whole different thing. So I'm willing to start at the very VERY beginning in the running department -as in mostly walking for 20 minutes, which is what I did today.

And, it must be said, my winter time training has not been the best. So I'm not sure at all that my biking isn't going to be starting at the very beginning again, too. I have been swimming all winter, so at least there's that. And I've been doing pretty advanced step and some easier weight training, which probably needs to be picked up about 10 notches.

So, I may or may not do a tri. But I'd love to know that I have the ability to do one -eventually. I'm willing for this project to take a long time. There are some fitness things I'm really NOT willing to give up to do tri-training, though. I've been a yoga practitioner for 20 years now, and I really have to have time for that. I do like dance-y step aerobics and I'd hate to lose that from my training altogether. I'd absolutely LOVE it if I could lose 20 pounds. I short, I guess there's a lot on my fitness plate. I'm looking forward to getting and giving moral support throughout this training and education process.

Andrea