Upon reflection of our triathlon event this past Wednesday and the clocking of 40 planetary revolutions, we’ve suitably depleted ourselves. It’s be a build-up as we anticipated, but one thing we hadn’t counted on happening was the uptick in normal life that has happened in the more recent weeks.
The video below does a good job of recapping the the journey here over the past several months, but what it doesn’t illustrate is an increasing demand on what used to be our free time. Work schedules, social schedules, and familial needs have made the last bit of our training schedule challenging – not tot he point that we were ever worried about completing the event, just to a point that there were certain training days we couldn’t both do. This has more to do with normal life, and the transition into a post-covid-19 way of behaving.
We also both had Covid-19 at different times, which meant dropping training and picking it back up as we were available to do so, and thankfully neither of us had to navigate the after affects some people cope with.
Also, although I’ve posted more than a couple of videos at this point, I can say with certainty that when I first thought of maintaining a YouTube channel, that video’s like the one below are essentially what I had in mind. I’ve tried not to be too precious about them, or they’d never get done – but this one I am the most proud of as far as production and overall feel. I hope you enjoy it and I hope you stay tuned, because although this particular event is complete, my journey is not.
My opinion is that this video is a level-up and I look forward to more bar-raising home-made productions of this calibre or better. I’m also pretty proud of the subject matter and content.
I’m starting a new training program this week in anticipation of a big event next summer (only because this year’s iteration of that event is RIGHT around the corner). In the mean time I’ve elected that I should train for and run the Half Marathon race in the annual Edmonton Marathon, which takes place on August 21st of this year.
I’ll post that training schedule soon.
From there, we’ll pepper in other milestones on our way to the big one next summer, for which we’re building a team – so if you’re feeling particularly bonkers, reach out and I’ll fill you in. Otherwise, we’ll announce our plans once our team is built.
Thank you for joining us.
The Conscious Pilgrim 