Dave’s Triathlon Journal

I haven’t made a post for some time, except for a race report and I’m finding that I miss it.

So, even though my original plan was to stop this whole blogging thing after Lake Placid was over….I changed my mind.

I was recently asked to write a short piece about my Lake Placid experience for the charity I raised money for at IMLP.  They want to use it in their newsletter.  While I was writing it I felt the experience was very therapeutic.  I wrote a lengthy race report after Lake Placid, however, since then I’ve been through some ups and downs.   Ups when I think about the race, the weekend, the people I met, crossing the finish line.  Downs thinking that the experience is over for now, the training has dropped considerably and, oh yeah, I have to start back to a regular work routine.

As I wrote the newsletter article though it was a great way to go back and remember the experience, maybe even better than when I was there as I was forced to really focus on what I was thinking and feeling during the wild ride that Ironman is.

So, even though very few, if anyone will ever read what I may write from time to time, if the process of writing in this blog can help me to heighten, relive and learn from my experiences then it seems to me a worthwhile way to spend a few minutes of my day (and a nice distraction from work every once and a while .

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