Good bye old friend...

Yesterday  I did my last brick run of the season, (a bike followed by a run), which is always bittersweet. With my last Triathalon of this season Saturday, I will transition to marathon mode and most likely my bike will gather dust till spring. However after this summer, biking just isn't what it used to be. Several bikes accident hit close to home this summer. People have been clipped, hit, and sustained lifelong injuries. Just because people were doing what they loved and staying physically fit.

Not. Fair. At. All.

All these things shook me significantly which put me on my trainer alot this summer, and got me thinking a lot. Even though I bike during low traffic and choose country roads that are scarcely traveled, this plan is still not a fail safe. People zip through the country roads. People talk on the phone. People text. People put make up on. People get drunk to drive...sometimes in the middle of the day. These things really do happen, and good people get hurt. I swore I was done and my husband and I were trading triathalons for Crossfit.

I started to tell myself I was selfish everytime I got on the road. What if I got hit? What would that do to my family? Then my anxiety got so bad I would only ride if my husband was home. So I got on my trainer for 2 of my 3 rides of my week. But honestly it wasn't that bad. And if my family was home, they would hang and chat, sometimes the kids would dance and ride their bikes around the garage, (and ask to drink out of my water bottle off my bike : ) Often my son and I would chat about his day while he chowed on cheese-its, (and offered me some as I rode). And you know what? It turned out ok. I was safe, my anxiety down, and my biking average even got a little faster.  And I loved it because  I could truly be 'the mom that tri's.'

With that being said, I'm more then ready to rock this last Tri. I haven't done The Go Girl Tri in a few years-look forward to seeing many new and old faces on the course Best of all, weather looks perfect!