I will be running my first triathlon in August. I am 37-years-old and I figure now is as good a time as any to get started. I am training by running three days a week, biking two, and working out with dumbbells five.
The most unexpected part of the exercise process, for me, is that the more I exercise, the more I want to exercise. I am addicted to the process because it makes me feel good. Not the pain and the effort during, but the feeling of satisfaction I get afterwards.
I am running further and faster now than I was in my teens. I feel as good as I can remember feeling in more than ten years. I want to continue this process! This first event is pretty easy – it consists of a two-mile run, an eight-miles bike event and a 400 meter swim.
I just got done with an eight-mile bike ride on very hilly terrain and I feel a sense of great accomplishment! I burned 600+ calories and didn’t collapse in a fat heap of heart attack.