I saw this picture thing on the book of faces and had to snag it for myself. Very under rated diabetes comedy in that one. So anyways, I have always had dreams of actually almost being in the athletic crowd all my life. I kind of almost feel that way when I do marathons, but have always known that I had to do something bigger and diabetesier than that. Then I met my favorite diabetes mentor Vic. He is captain cool and ultra athletic and has allowed me to almost follow him around two steps behind him or so. Then one day he told me to do one of those 70.3 triathlon things. I almost peed my pants, puked up non diabetes friendly food, and kicked him in the shin for saying that. Complete shock. This was like two or so years ago. Ever since then I have been trying to do athlete style things and wearing athlete style outfits and eating athlete looking food. The thing was every year I would get so far then oh a heart surgery, or allergies, or diabetes would rear its ugly head up and put me out of the game for several months. Then it was start it all over again with the athlete sleeping schedule, and athlete tv shows. You get the point, that it felt like I would never stay alive or healthy long enough to actually be able to give someone lots of money to let me finish one of their 70.3 triathlon athlete events. Then this year happened, I did one marathon and felt good, did another marathon and felt good, did a 100 mile bike ride and still felt good, so I put the small fortune down to be a participant in the Redman 70.3 triathlon in August.
I was so nervous about the swim and bought a wet suit and have been in the pool most Wednesdays (not in my wet suit) trying to slightly almost keep up with the actual triathlete people or the little kids in swim classes. The funny thing was that the 1.2 mile swim was the best part. I felt like doing the 2.4 mile swim would be great. The bike was rough (Oklahoma winds just really started to get annoying after a while) and the run was of course 91 degrees in the middle of the afternoon (yes people because I am slow) but it was great. I walked a bit, ran about 3/4 of a mile, walked a bit and loved it all. I think this constant year after year, issue after issue has pushed me into just relaxing and having fun mode that I love. When I finished I was tired but knew that I beat my personal time of arrival (I figured 8 hours and did it in 7:46 hours). Baby sat my nephew that night and slept in till almost noon the next day and now I can officially say that I am almost arms distance from being only a couple of miles away from being the athlete type of person and am proud of my participation medal (we are supposed to not accept participation medals because only first through third should be able to show off their accomplishments or something like that I am told). So I am going to keep training and see if I can't be ready in just slightly under a year for the Wisconsin actual ironman official full triathlon athlete thing.
I have an update on my last post. First I have to apologize to Jules (she is the lady who writes the above blog) that when she read my last post about her blog about our dates. She was actually on time to the first date and I was late fifteen minutes because of getting turned around. I enjoyed dating her for the short time it was but am pretty sure that my complete idiot'ness and getting everything messed up has ruined my opportunity for anything more to happen (she also wasn't impressed when I read on her blog that she was going to call it off with me and I had all of you post nice things about me a winning move either, it actually did the opposite).
you're a goddamn athlete so accept it. You're more of an athlete than me. I am amazed at the accomplishments you've achieved this year. I had no idea you were that kind of athlete!
ReplyDeleteas for your little friend, I was quite appalled reading her posts about you. She is a complete self absorbed serial dater. You deserve WAAY better than that.