Happy 1st Birthday!

…to SwimBikeMom.com!

Okay, so it seems a little stupid to wish my blog a Happy Birthday.  But this is a big first birthday!  (Where’s my fancy cake with a candle? Oh that’s right. No more cake….)

This time last year, I drafted my first post.  I slept on the craziness of it.  I published the post the next day and held my breath.

If I blog it, they will come.  And little by little, you guys came. And you became a giant support beam for me to lean upon, to scream at, to question, and a giant source of accountability and inspiration.  Turns out, some days I have actually been able to return the favor (or so you tell me.  If you are lying, I don’t know why – I have no snacks or prizes to share with you dirty rotten liars….)

Anyway.  In one year, SwimBikeMom has expanded from just this site (a little place for me to vent) to a hilarious forum on Facebook (a big place for all of us to vent)… and even to a place where I can complain about training using vile words (because my mom hasn’t figured out Twitter yet)… a place for cool race reports from everyday heroes, and a collaboration with the awesome TriCrowd and Trinero (the “Groupon” for triathletes).

So this Happy Birthday message is for those of you who dare to whisper something as crazy as “I have decided to become a triathlete.” As such, I submit this post as encouragement to you…you “crazy” people.


This Day, One Year Ago, 2010:

• I couldn’t run two miles without dying, bike eight miles without falling, or swim two laps without drowning
• My heartrate was off the charts from the second I laced up my shoes
• I was 25 pounds heavier
• I was worn out, run down, and on the verge of giving up on ever being an athlete again
• I had no idea what I wanted out of my life
• A triathlon seemed like a pipe dream, although I dreamed it anyway
• An Olympic distance tri seemed unreachable
• A Half-Iron would be impossible
• An Ironman….unthinkable