Triathlon is a very "pure" sport. By that I mean it uses the most basic of skills and little or no equipment. Aside from the bike, you could be a naked caveman with nothing but your spear and hairy body and do a triathlon. Maybe you could ride a dinosaur for the bike portion...?
I sit here after finishing a good, fairly hard 60k bike ride and I can't help but feel some measure of pity for the multitude of people in our society who have completely lost touch with their physical selves. Sure, maybe they hit the gym once in a while and lift some weights, but they rarely get to know their bodies intimately. They eat crappy processed foods for every meal, sit at a desk all day staring at a computer, and get out for maybe 30 minutes of light exercise a week, if that.
I recently had hours cut at my job due to major budget issues and have been forced to look for a more regular job to pay the bills. A friend of mine got me a job at a bank and for the last three weeks I have been working two jobs during the day, leaving little, if any time for training.
It's driving me nuts.
I can't really imagine myself succumbing to that 9-5 lifestyle. I'm not saying it's a bad way to live life if it is giving you the satisfaction you crave, but for me I have become so used to being an athlete that I'm fairly certain any future career moves I make will need to head in that direction.
That was a bit of a tangent, but what I'm getting at is that through triathlon, I have really discovered my inner physical self. I feel very in tune with my body and it's a truly wonderful thing. I believe that if I was to lose everything I own, I would still be happy so long as I had a pair of running shoes and a heartbeat.
Life is too short for me to spend my life behind a desk, and being outside interacting with nature just feels so right. It really is good to be alive.
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