HERE I GO!!!

I haven't written in awhile, mostly because I have been too busy training, vacationing, backpacking, traveling to a funeral and getting ready to send the kids back to school. And now here I stand on the verge of heading out to Pacific Grove, California to do my triathlon. We leave tomorrow morning. And on Saturday at some unknown time after 7 am, I will be standing in a crowd of swimmers in my wetsuit ready to run down the beach into the kelpy water of the Monterey Bay to begin the first leg of the triathlon. I really cannot believe it. And yet, there is a part of me that knows I am ready for this. I know that the collective spirit of all the people I am thinking of or remembering as I do this will help propel me ever forward, through the fear and the pain and whatever else might surface as I plod through. Either my t-shirt or my body will be covered in names of people who inspire me to continue. This is amazing!! Thanks for all of your support. It is almost here, and almost over. Stay tuned.