So that’s it! Just wanted to share that since I quit drinking I trained a lot more and motives myself with buying a bike. After 11 weeks of work, I’ll finally attempt my first triathlon tomorrow morning. I could never have done it with the booze.
3 months ago I knew barely knew how to swim.When I first started I always had big cramps in my calves because I was obviously dehydrated from the alcool intake. I couldn’t afford to buy the bike with the money spent in the booze. Having that goal was very helpful with my sobriety. It helped me to switch my lifestyle to a new one somehow sportish. It wasnt completely new, because I always loved training, but let’s say my sobriety helped me showing the best of me in every part of my life.
I’m thankful for what I have today and to this forum, because my early days were really hard and reading posts here every day helped me to keep going.
I’m close to achieve my triathlon goal for the season, and from my 90 days of sobriety. Hopefully I’ll keep my motivation to keep going.
Have a wonderful day everyone !
One day at a time.
Wow! I needed to hear this today. Triathlons are something I’ve always wanted to tackle, but I don’t know how to swim. Let us know how everything goes tomorrow!
WOW @WCan so amazing!! Especially that three months prior you weren’t a great swimmer!? Hope you have the time of your life & that tomorrow is the first of many events. You’re a triathlete now
@beyondmythoughts well I “knew” how to swim (like I’m ok in the water), but I wasn’t in comfort for any distance more than 100m or when I couldn’t touch the ground if something happens. But after 3 privates courses and swimming 3x/weeks for 6 weeks and I’ve been able to complete my triathlon yesterday.
It was an amazing experience. The feeling you have before the race, knowing that you’ve done all the work, and now it’s just time to enjoy and push hard.
With my secret weapon (sobriety - not so secret though) give me so much more confidence than I use to have barely 3 months ago,that I know I can go through a lot of stuff.
Can I still fail? Can I still get hurt? Can I still be wrong? Of course, yes. But I’m not hiding behind a black label or a red bottle to keep me away from trying to move forward. And the best part of it is that when I hit an obstacle or get moody, I can move over it so much faster than when I was swimming in the ocean of booze and troubles… it’s impressive how resilient we can be.
Anyways, my body is sore as f*ck today. But it’s fine like that. Good day of rest. Going to have some reflections on my next goals and on my 80 days of sobriety today.
Thanks for your time guys, hope you have a wonderful day.
