My New Year's resolution for 2011 was to enter a Triathlon, so on 2nd January 2011 before I could really think about what I was undertaking I entered the Wilmslow Triathlon in May.
I've always wanted to do a triathlon - but I've been slightly scared of not knowing where to begin. At the start of 2011 I was incredibly pleased to be able to do any sport after years of injury and I thought, I can ride a bike, I can swim, and I can definitely run - how hard can it be.
This probably sums up my attitude to everything related to Triathlon to date "How hard can it be?" Not sure whether this makes me sound ignorant or incredibly arrogant, but in the last couple of months I've already had a couple of moments of realisation that training for a triathlon is hard in ways I hadn't anticipated!
Ever since watching Alistair Brownlee at the Beijing Olympics where he ran amazing race without fear and then went on to have an outstanding 2009 season to become World Champion, I've thought Triathlon looked like an amazing sport and was inspired to one day have a go. Unfortunately injuries have conspired against me up to this point, and it's only in the last few months that I've been able to put together any sort of training to enable me to consider giving triathlon a reasonable attempt.
My love of sport started at a young age when I used to swim pretty much every day. In fact I can't actually remember not being able to swim and always wanted to swim in the Olympics but I never really had the opportunity to see this ever becoming a reality and at age 14 I lost interest, fed up of smelling of chlorine and not having time to hang out with friends. That didn't mean my love of sport had disappeared though, and 1 1/2 years later I followed my other love, running, and joined the local athletics club having already represented my county in a couple of races and competed at the English Schools. There can't be many people who take up Athletics at 16, but I was one of them and loved it!
Speeding up to recent times, I was seriously injured at the end of 2007 and didn't run again until 2010, having been told in 2009 that I wouldn't be able to run again and should just be thankful I could walk. Not that I'd ever let something like that stop me - I'm far too stubborn for that and have been back running since April 2010, building up from 10min jogs to a full Cross Country Season in 2010 / 2011 which brings me to my New Years Resolution...Complete a Triathlon!
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