Day 39: "Triathlon Dreams" was a blog post from 2 years ago! It took me two years to follow my dream again!
Some one commented on a blog that I wrote a few years ago and it struck me that I wrote about wanting to do a triathlon. My concerns were totally different back then than they are now.
Two years ago, I thought I was too old, worried about ankles, wondered if I had enough motivation, thought it would be too much work, wasn't sure if I had what it takes, and it made me tired just to think about it. If I thought that way now, I would tell myself to "Suck it up Princess!".
Well, it's two years later and I'm too years older, which was inevitable whether I did a triathlon or not. My heart was in the right place back then. I bought a great pair of running shoes at Runner's Edge, and recently, I ran my first mile in them. I joined an aquatic center two years ago, and didn't know what I was doing in the pool to train, and now I'm in a swim clinic with a coach who pushes me. My last count was 1,500 yards and it just keeps going up. My old bike in the garage has a baby seat on the back and my new road bike has cleated pedals. That's a lot of progress in two short months!
It's obvious that the dreams were always there, and for whatever reasons, I didn't follow through completely. Now, when I got a second chance, I grabbed it. Part of me remembered my humble beginnings in this journey, and if I really wanted to go through the finish line, I needed to step up my game.
I am not the person I was too years ago or maybe these two months of training, seeing results, and getting stronger has already changed me. I'm living my dream and that feels great. Age didn't even come up. In fact, I'm proud that I'm doing this now. It makes me even more of a rock star!