Try-athletes

So I've just returned from a fantastical two-month travel stint in sunny, warm, and excessively humid Argentina. In addition to the fact that those two months were a mini-vacay from my usual running/bikram yoga routine, I indulged in an obscene amount of medialunas, empanadas, and vino blanco. Basically, I've fallen off the work-out train HARD. But what better way to jump back on than to register for a sprint triathlon 10 weeks away from my return with some great, supportive, and super competitive friends? Sounds like a plan to me.

I bought a triathlon training for beginners book over a year ago when I had the lofty goal of attempting to train for a sprint-tri during my senior of college. That didn't work out. However, when the idea came oup of giving it a go this year, I thought to myself, "Well, hey, I already have the training guide, and that's half the battle of getting your body to run a 5k, swim 750 meters, and bike 8 miles, right?" So here I am, finishing up my work out plan for the next 10 weeks and making some playlists that are fit for a World Cup commercial. I haven't swam competitively since high school, I've ran in one 10k race which, as Kelsey previously mentioned, has convinced me that I'm capable of competitive running, and my biking history consists of maybe a few blocks around the neighborhood if I have air in my tires. But I'm so excited to be training from afar with my friends and to have a work-out regimen that will certainly test my patience and commitment. And obviously, for the inevitable free tee-shirt in which I'll get to look super hard-core when it's over.