Triathlon Withdrawals

Hi, my name is KB and I have a problem...I'm addicted to Triathlons, and right now I'm suffering from some serious withdrawal symptoms.  LOL.  It's absolutely ridiculous (yes, I'm aware), but I can't help it (ADDICTED!!!!).  I'm cranky and fed up with Mother Nature and her winter wonderland we call Iowa.  It's cold and white for as far as the eye can see, and I would give just about anything at this point for a little 80 degree weather and some swim-bike-run fun. 

In lieu of an actual race in the near future, I'm taking matters into my won hands and creating my very own!  (Told ya...withdrawals!  I need a fix and I need it NOW!)  Screw you Mother Nature, you're not going to keep this Triathlete from a much needed adrenaline rush!  Haha!...I win!

The first annual (and officially named...whoot-whoot and a hellz yes!) KB Triathlon will be held on Saturday, January 1st at my local gym...time to be announced, but I'm thinking later in the day for sure (hey I'm a single girl and who knows what kind of tricks I'll have up my sleeve for ringing in the New Year :)).  We will swim a 500 in the pool, bike 15 miles on the stationary bikes, then hit the treadmill for a 5K (or 10K if you're feeling extra spicy!...I think my training plan for that day calls for at least an 8 mile run, so...*shrug*).  

There will be no rules, no registration fees, no prizes, no food, no beer, and no course support...just a whole lot of fun with some other like minded crazy ass mother phuckers, kicking off 2011 in spandex.  (Truly, I absolutely love everyone in Team Vardo and TDR, but there is no way in hell that a single one of us isn't certifiable on some level!  I mean hey, we do this shit for fun and when we can't pay a boat load of cash to participate in a sanctioned event then we start making them up on our own...so NOT sane!!!  I LOVE IT!!!)

 

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” ~Buddha

New Year

I was playing on Facebook yesterday (cuz that's what all bored single women do when there's time) and noticed that my friend had posted an interesting quote..."If you have one leg in the past and one in the future, you piss all over today".  True. So very true.  It got me to thinking a little bit about the upcoming year.  After all, this is generally the time when our society tends to reflect upon the previous year and look toward the upcoming one with our list of resolutions.  Blah, blah, blah.

So I sat, and I reflected and I meditated on 2010.  I thought about it (I freaking over analyzed the shit out of it actually) and I thought about the new year (not too much there to over analyze yet, so far 2011 seems pretty quiet :)) and where I potentially want my path to take me.  Not the exact route of course, I'm over that, I don't need details to clutter up the journey, but potentially where I want to be at the end of the year.   (OMG, the end of the year...like a whole 365 days away?!?!  Holy shit!  That's A LONG time from now!  Oh, I'm sure it will go fast, it always does...but I'm not sure I'm qualified to make goals for that far in advance.) 

After thinking about it (in the shower because when I can't get out on the trails that's where I meditate...hey, don't judge me, it's my life and I can mediate where ever I want to), I decided that I really don't have any resolutions to make this year.  Not a single one.  No interest in it what so ever.  I want to remain completely open to the journey of 2011.  Whatever happens, happens...good, bad, or indifferent, I want to approach 2011 with an open mind and an open heart, and I think that making resolutions might get in the way of that experience.

Which brings me back to the quote..."If you have one leg in the past and one in the future, you piss all over today"... hmmm... 

OK...I'm done with the past.  It's the past.  Can't change it.  Wouldn't really want to.  It got me to here, so the past and I...yeah, we're good (better than good actually!).  There's closure there.  I'm at peace with 2010.  Surprised aren't you?!?!  So am I quite honestly.  But, for all the weird, odd and unpredicted things that happened in 2010, overall, it was a phucking blast and I wouldn't change any part of it!  I met some amazing people and had a lot of crazy fun adventures (it's actually stupid how much fun I had!...and what I learned about myself along the way, priceless...absolutely phucking priceless!). 

The future on the other hand...???...eh, who knows.  It's a blank slate that I don't want to jumble with my expectations.  So, it's with an openness for the future in mind that I would like to amend the quote my FB friend shared with us all to maybe add that...If you keep one leg too far in the future, and one firmly planted in the present moment, then you just piss all over your leg...so maybe don't look so far ahead!  Just enjoy being in the present moment and if you have to piss, then find a toilet or squat.  Just something to consider in the new year...

Peace!