Why are you doing it?

Because I can!

because it feels so good when I stop? 

On a serious note, every time I run or ride by someone in a wheelchair I realize why I do it

To do what others can't.

Edit: I guess actually it's because at one time I couldn't.

When I did my first Half marathon a woman at work asked "What about the other half?" She thought I cheated

Something to prove to myself...no one else.

To loose weight. 

For a challenge.

Healthly lifestyle.

Beat my friends.

A little danger.

I feel good about myself.

It helps me lose the baby weight.

I enjoy it. 

I would rather run a hlaf marathon than watch basebore or basketbore.

As Eric Harr says in his book, everyone longs to be a hero. And unless you happen to come across a house on fire, or someone drowning in a lake, there aren't too many opportunities to be a hero in this world. Completing a triathlon really is an achievement that makes you feel heroic.

???

I've felt a lot of things in triathloning. but never "heroic." How so?

ETA: Courage and daring? Supremely noble or self-sacrificing? Of impressive size, power, extent, or effect?  Nope, not feeling it.

1: of, relating to, resembling, or suggesting heroes especially of antiquity

2 a: exhibiting or marked by courage and daring b: supremely noble or self-sacrificing

3 a: of impressive size, power, extent, or effect heroic voice> b (1): of great intensity : extreme <heroic effort> (2): of a kind that is likely only to be undertaken to save a life <heroic surgery>

4: of, relating to, or constituting drama written during the Restoration in heroic couplets and concerned with a conflict between love and honor

 

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