Welcome to my blog, which is mostly meant to keep me on track and motivated for the upcoming Triathlon season (in 5 months). I work full time as an IT Business Analyst, and I noticed a couple years ago that sitting at a computer all day every day tends to gain you a bunch of weight, so I joined my local gym and started to enjoy weight lifting and cardio. In about august of 2010 I was able to run 5km without too much effort, so what did I do? I signed up for my first ever race of 10km, the Audi's Best Buddies Challenge.I finished in 295th place in 1h00m46s, not too bad for my first race, but I was hooked. After this race it turns out I had cracked my foot, and couldn't run for 5 weeks, this sucked big time as I was dying to do some running..eventually my foot healed I was able to run again. I signed up for one more race that year, Burlington's 5k Santa Race, approximately 3,000 race in Santa suits, this was a blast, but unfortunately I hurt my knee in this run and again couldn't run for 4 weeks while I did Physio.
After I recovered this time, I read a book called Born to Run, which convinced me to toss my runners and get a pair of Vibram KSO's, I ran in nothing but these for all my races in 2011, and haven't had an injury yet.
In 2011 I ran in 1 Sprint Triathlon, 2 Try-A-Tri triathlons, a Warrior Dash, and a Zombie run (best race yet).. all of which I'll detail in other posts.
Currently I've started back in my training for the 2012 season, I want to compete in Olympic Triathlons, and a Tough Mudder or two, so I figure I better get an early start, and hopefully this blog keeps my training and nutrition honest!
