July 21, 2009
Kathy

Just over three months until the big race! Can you believe some of us joined in this adventure almost one year ago? To me, it seems like we are in the thick of things now, no turning back. We trained hard, and have maybe our hardest training to go. We learned so much thanks to each other and our coaches, yet have so much more to figure out about truly training for an endurance race while managing the ever-changing ‘art’ of having diabetes.

It sounds like we’ve all has some sort of 1st overt the past year. Some of us newbies to the sport of triathlon had our first open water experience, first wetsuit wrangling, first official sprint triathlon, or even our first snot rocket (ask Katie for details about that one). Some veterans and others on the team had 1st of their own, like the disappointment in training for a tri but not being able to complete it, either due to a broken ankle or to the lovely Lake Michigan swells (effectively turning the swim portion of the tri into another run). Whatever your 1st of the past year have been, here’s to the 1st 70.3-mile adventure of Team WILD!

Since I didn’t have too much to say this month, I thought I’d add some pictures of me swimming in a beautiful lake in northern Wisconsin over the July 4th weekend.