A Dilettantes Adventures in Triathlon

This being my first blog post all my anticipation has built up to nothing less than writers block. Here's where it all began... Upon reading the trials and tribulations and fantastic success of Nancy at http://triby35.typepad.com I thought I would create a blog myself. Not for others to follow along but rather to make notes and such to kind of document
my new found love affair... the triathlon.

Unfortunately for me I am not starting at the very beginning having actually completed my first sprint distance triathlon. The jist of it is: Over a two year period my weight was as high as 238lbs.! I'm only 5'9"! Over six months of playing tennis with no real change in diet I got down to about 219lbs. Christmas 2003 we had some family pictures taken and I could not believe what I saw. The next week I started the Zone Diet and a regular exercise routine now I'm about 160. Somewhere in the middle of all this I found http://www.beginnertriathlete.com and haven't looked back since.

So this blog is dedicated to the fat child inside of me that I've coaxed onto a perpetual hamster wheel.