119. One In A Row

The courage to start

I raced my first triathlon in 1992.
I did it to spite an ex-girlfriend.

She had done a triathlon a few months earlier and, in her own special patronizing way, she used it to let me know how great she was. So I’m sure you can understand that I absolutely, positively had to do a triathlon myself, and to complete it faster than she did hers and to …