Well, a new baby, a bored 4yr old, and job hunting just werent taking up enough of my time, so I thought I'd mix it up with some triathlon training.

I've had a long standing desire to learn to swim "properly", added to which I was already running and riding to get fit post baby number 2. Add those things together and the word "triathlon" just popped into my head from some reason!!

400m swim, 20k bike ride and 5k run. I'm there on the bike riding. The run will be a challenge running outside as my previous runs have all been on the treadmill, I can currently do 5k in about 40 minutes. The swimming however, will be a car crash as I can currently only do 1 length of girly breast stroke.

So I have armed myself with a heartrate monitor, some swimming lessons and some amazing friends and neighbours to babysit while I sweat it out, and who knows I may make it round in one piece. 

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