Olympic Triathlon

When you say the word Triathlon you don't exactly think that it sounds too hard. Unlike when you say Marathon, you immediately realize that you are going to have to run a lot to complete a marathon. An Olympic Triathlon consists of a one mile swim, a forty kilometer bike ride, and a 10 kilometer run. Just in case you don't think it takes a lot of time and effort to finish one of these things, forty kilometers is around thirty five miles long and ten kilometers is around seven miles. That is a long ways to go.

In the first picture you see a red circle with an arrow pointing towards it. That is where the beach raps around and you have to run for another kilometer after that to hit the half way point of only the running portion of the triathlon. Then you have to come all of the way back and that is after the swimming and biking. That is only a ten kilometer run when the biking is forty kilometers! A triathlon is a suicide mission that lasted four hours for me to complete. Not to mention the five a' clock wake up in the morning to get to the race on time. In the end, it is worth it because you have completed something most people in this world would never even think of doing. I mean think about it some people don't even travel that far in there entire life and I was able to do it in a day! It was one of the most rewarding experiences in my entire life.

The Beginning or the End?

Imagine that two people wakeup at a random time and they have no idea what time of day it is, or if it is morning or night. These people look to the horizon and see that the sun is barely visible. There are two options, is it rising or is it setting? It sounds almost like, is the glass half full or is it half empty? It applies in almost the same way. Do you look forward into a new tomorrow and to a new beginning, or do you look to the end of the day where the worries of the day, and days to come are just dreams and memories.

Now, the person who thinks that it is morning arises and gets ready for a day of opportunity. The person who thinks that it is night goes back to bed to catch more shut eye before another day full of disappointments begins. Now even if the the person who thought it to be morning was wrong and it was still night, he still would have gotten up and gotten ready and realized, later, that he didn't need to get up for a few more hours and would go back to sleep. The question is even if the person who believed it was night was told it was time for the day to begin would he even get up?

Looking at the Bigger Picture

If you look at this picture very closely, you can see me on the rock to the right. Now, look at the whole picture. I look pretty small in comparison, right? This just shows that the world has so much going on at once that there is almost no time to soak it up at once. How does anyone expect to do everything at once! This is why we should all spend time to acknowledge that there is more going than we know, and we should take time to sit back and just think about what it is that is really going on.

Sailing from Catalina to Marina Del Ray

My experiences in California are probably some of the most magical moments of my life. My family and I were sailing back from Catalina like a boat is supposed to do and my friend Gavin said, "Is that an island?" When in fact it was two whales swimming across the bow of our boat, about 100 yards off. First it was pure amazement and second it was panic to keep from having the keel of the sail boat from being torn off and having the boat flip over and sinking in who knows how deep of water. Now, everyone knows how amazing moms are and even though she was running around as well she was able to get this amazing picture of the whale getting ready to dive. After we got back to the main land my grandfather said, "I have sailed across that channel hundreds of times and not once have I seen one whale!" I always wonder, why was I lucky enough to see two when my grandfather never saw one his entire life?