Starting Line Anxiety

Size, shame, and triathlon speed

Before I start this post, I want to take a moment to congratulate someone very important: me. Well done, self, for finally figuring out how to title this post so it DIDN’T ended up sounding like a pun on the whole “trying” and “tri” situation. That was harder than it should have been, honestly.

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Last year, after over a decade since my last triathlon, I…