The Toughest Sport in the World

I visit my blog after months of not posting anything. Last post I think was August and after that, I have not written anything since.

My life has changed since my last post as I have indulged in a new and very challenging sport: Triathlon.

This all started when I was allegedly over training and getting slower because of my strength training so I had to drop everything and switch to swimming for my upper body. Since I have already been running for over a year, swimming was the only discipline I had to learn to be able to try out this sport, a sport that I have been dreaming to do for many years.

Fortunately, I found out that one of my friends was also getting into it. We never trained together but through constant text messages to each other about training and race schedules, we finally joined our first event in August...and the rest is history.

I didn't think I would get to like it as the demands of training was taking a toll on my body needless to say my social life. In fact, I tried to squeeze in a party that almost put all my training in the trash bin.

So to cut a long story short, I ended up at a fun tri or try a tri at UPLB. I had so much fun, I wanted to up it a bit and join a sprint tri and loved every moment of it. I was using a mountain bike then, so to improve my time, I purchased a road bike and fitted it with aerobars and a tri seat, thanks to a good friend who supplied me with them.

Train was all I did, and I felt great. I also felt that anything that got in the way of my training was a hassle that set me back major. All my problems became a blur and everything in life just passed like nothing happened. I can say it was working for me and I was like an evangelist telling everyone I knew to take up the sport.

It infected all of them like a virus to the point that a team was formed with a captain, training coaches and an event that would launch the team. Well, that event that was held a few weeks ago would become one of the memorable events for all of us. The team won 8 medals in different age group categories and third overall. Not bad for a launch.

Lately, I have been finding myself wanting to train more. As I write this blog, I deprive myself of much needed sleep as I type and wait 30 minutes more to call a stupid customer service rep who messed up one of my orders. Situations like these saden me as I value my much needed zzzz's but that's life and I have been there and done that so enough of feeling sad. What needs to be done should be done as I try to keep my customer happy for a delivery that I promised to be completed before Christmas day.

It's tough loving this sport and trying to balance your day to day with training and family life. Funny thing is you get to work everything out when you need to and everything falls in place.

In a few more days, I will be spending 2 days alone with my wife and kids. No training, just bonding and I am so anxious because I want the 2 days to be perfect in the sense that I will not receive a work related call. It will be my first vacation in a long time and just thinking about it makes me smile.

So back to work again for me at 2:41am, there is a problem and it needs to be solved at once. I have a strong feeling it will as I forget about it at the beach sipping my cold drink in the company of my loved ones. Life can't be any better than that can't it?