Hello.

Well, I've been lurking around for a bit and occasionally posted to a thread. Been doing triathlon for maybe 5 or 6 years after spending a decade or so getting extremely out of shape. Up to IM now. Although I'm still rather Falstaffian and pretty slow owing to my truly heroic beer and pizza intake. This combination of physical exertion and gluttony has made it difficult to make friends of other triathletes who it seems actually want to be, you know, "in shape". So I have a lot of dumb questions about gear, planning, etc and no one to ask! Always on the lookout for an exotic locale with an interesting race (mainly Tri but occasionally other things as well, i.e. trail runs, etc) to plan a race vacation to.