triathlon, and the right reasons

I must confess - after my "break" this summer I really wasn't planning to return to triathlon. School is finished, the business is up and running, life has settled down - yet I didn't have the urge to return to training. I really thought I was done, I'd maybe swim a bit, and of course do scads of yoga - but that was it for tri's for me.

That changed on Nov 24. Or actually - it changed a few days after that when I escaped my fog ... a good friend of mine commited suicide last Monday - he was a cop, a husband, a joker, a traveller, a leader, a great man, and a triathlete - he is already registered for a few shorter distance races this 2009 season, and is registered for the Calgary 70.3 ... his main goal was Penticton 2010.

Now I'm thinking of returning for another season of triathlon in his honour. I know how badly he wanted it - how hooked he was after watching and volunteering at his first races, how he was blogging his training, and how frustrated he was when injured - and he was a big part of the fundraising for TriCops.

So - you might see me out there in 2009! And if you do - I'll have his badge number written below my race numbers, every time.

This leads me to ask - is there a special reason anyone else here does tri's? Or are you all just the masochists that I so know and love. ;-)

Edited to say: I've posted something similar in CoJ


Edited by SpiritFire 2008-12-03 7:50 PM