Slow, but you like getting a Medal? Hang in there. Hey, you never know
Talking Tri-/Duathlon for Ordinary Mortals®: A Series by Steve Jonas
Slow, but you like getting a Medal? Hang in there. Hey, you never know
I am a very lucky man to have found triathlon. I reached the age of 46 having been able to do only two sports reasonably well. They were downhill skiing, which I got into during my first year of medical school at the age of 22, and sail-boating, which I got into in my 30s. I fell in love with skiing on my very first day, even though I spent almost as much time down on the snow as I did actually standing up on my skis. But not be good at any of the usual school sports I felt that I had finally discovered one I could do, if I took lessons and practiced. Eventually I did it well enough to become a Level I Certified Ski Instructor. As for sailing, I was a good seaman and a safe sailor and just loved the “sailing sensation.” But I was never much at making my boat go fast in the club races which I regularly entered, and in sailboat racing if you’re not first, second, or third overall, fuhgeddaboudit (as we say in Noo Yawk). But then came triathlon, at age 46.
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