I grew up swimming on club teams and then swam for my high school team. After high school I was too burned out to swim. I had never run more than a mile continuously, but eventually started running a couple of miles here and there to keep in shape. I gave up running and started biking on a Cannondale mountain bike.
Along the way, I fell in love with the girl who would some day be my wife. Biking, to which running had given way, to which swimming had given way, gave way to the fun of being a college student in a new and exciting relationship.
Fast forward several years and I had joined a gym to stay in shape. I started using the elliptical, then the treadmill. I tried spinning classes. Finally, after over a decade without swimming a lap in the pool, I found myself doing flip-turns again.
At some point, my now wife and I saw an ad for a local sprint distance triathlon, the Portland Triathlon. She said: "You're swimming, biking and running a lot. You should try to do a triathlon." I'm sure she regrets this. I signed up with about 8 weeks to buy my first road bike, train and finish. I finished and was hooked. That was about three years ago...
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