A First Time for Everything

It's time. I can't avoid it any more. I knew I had to do it, and I put it off as long as I could. No, I'm not talking about shaving my legs.

I'm starting a blog.

Why now? Well, there are many reasons, but the top ten five three reasons go something like this:

3) I'm halfway through my annual two-week break from training and exercise. No biking plus no running equals more time and energy. Why not start a blog?

2) Everyone else seems to be doing it, so it must be fun. And I haven't heard of anyone tweaking their knee or getting overheated doing it, so it must be safe. And it doesn't involve doing laundry or cleaning anything (except maybe cleaning up my language), which means I'm not allergic to it.

1) I've committed to doing something really big next year: I signed up to race Ironman Texas. This is not something I do every day, or every month, or even every year; as a matter of fact, this will be my first full Ironman. It will be my only Ironman for a long, long time - maybe EVER. So, it seems worthy of being chronicled.

Besides, how hard could it be?