When I wrote my first blog post exactly a year ago today, I wanted to try and write a blog post about my triathlon life, every single day.  I had no idea if I would be able to come up with something to write about every day, but I started anyway.

I surprisingly found out that I was able to do a daily post for a few weeks, then for a whole month, then for a few months and now for a whole year.  I have covered a lot of topics.  I have written about good days and not so good days.  I have included new things I wanted to incorporate into my training, many of which I failed to complete. I have covered nutrition, training, stress from daily life and a host of other topics.

The main reason for sharing my journey, is to try and give a little something back, to the sport that I love.  I hope that by being open about my journey, I am able to help others realize, that our journeys are often, far from perfect.  We all have ups and downs along the way.

In hindsight, I picked a particularly challenging year to start my blog.  The global Covid pandemic cancelled all my major races, so I never got to share anything about them.  The pandemic closed pools and gyms, so I needed to write about adapting workouts.  It did however allow me to try new things and I wrote about those.

The other great unknown, when I started writing a year ago, was whether anyone would actually read my blog.  I don’t have a huge following, but I do have readers every day and that makes me so happy.  I’ll finish this post with the same words that I used to finish my very first blog post…

My blog will be about my day to day journey in triathlon and I am sharing it, with the hope that, in some small way, it can help you on your journey too.

“Balancing Life And Triathlon – Sharing To Inspire”