Subject: RE: How common are we? True--I think the numbers are pretty high in the Pacific Northwest for outdoor endurance sports. Around here....not so much. I think I know three other women in Saigon who sometimes do triathlons. (A few more have come and gone over the years. ) Two are my colleagues! Only one of them really identifies as a "triathlete", though she doesn't race very often. Unfortunately she's much slower (8 hour+ HIM; to her credit, she did finish ), so not a potential training partner, although we sometimes swim together. One of the others is more a cyclist/ runner and the other mainly a swimmer. Also have a colleague who's a pretty good runner, (former NCAA All-American ) but she's not very consistent--both health and motivational issues.
Last year at IM Vietnam, a company was giving a run bonus to the top men and women in three categories, pro, age-grouper, and Vietnam resident. I won the latter.....with a horrible 2:13 run. I think there were three "contenders". (I was really sick at the time and it was 105 at the end; that's the slowest I've ever run 13.1 miles! ) So it's obvious the field here isn't very deep. Since there are about 7 million people in the city, of which at least 3.5 million are probably women, it might be safe to say I'm just about "one in a million"! Edited by Hot Runner 2015-11-06 5:39 PM
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