Melissa - Vain Triathlete

Sunday morning I lay in bed listening to the wind howling. I finally drug myself out of bed to prep for the 1 hour drive to Derry NH.   My driving mate had a snafu and could not ride up with me. I whined quite a bit about that and then eventually accepted that I would drive alone.  I left my house to meet the others around 7:15 and as soon as I got about 5 minutes up the road I realized I had forgotten my all important Garmin.  I whined a bit about that too and then got over it and cranked up the tunes. After meeting up with GNRC folks, fretting about what to wear, taking a group photo, fretting some more, changing in the last 20 minutes, it was finally time to go.  I was pleased to see port-a-potties immediately outside the exit door and I quickly took advantage.  The floors were slippery so I was VERY CAREFUL in there. Here is our Greater Norwood Runners before the race: Getting ready! ...

There is so much more in life that I want to do I sometimes ask myself - should I NOT continue to devote so much time, energy, and thoughts to my sport of choice?  Occasionally I seriously wonder if I'm missing out on more casual play time like making more clothes, going to a book club, cooking cool new recipes.  I have always wanted to join or start a book club but have never made time to do that.  I have a fear that 10 years from now I'm going to WISH I had spent more time doing other fun hobbyish things such as the aforementioned.   I'm referring to the time you set aside for hobbies. Not family or work time. I mean free time that you have and how you choose to spend that time. Perhaps in 10 years I'll actually have more time to do these things. Right now there isn't to many choices. It's either I train or I give up training to do the other things in life.  I choose of course to train but that doesn't do much for my fear that I'm not as well rounde...