I had been bitten by the triathlon bug. I knew I wanted to do more of these. Lots more. And I also knew that my basic bike was not going to cut it. So graduation money saw me buying my first road bike. A beautiful 2011 1.1C, size 54cm. He's a gorgeous blue and black beast and he's named Earendil (after a mariner from the JRR Tolkien universe--nerd alert!!!). And yes, he's a he and I named him. I name all my bikes. Don't worry about it. 6 years later and I still have him.
I didn't think I wanted to do another sprint triathlon. I was pretty sure, by this point, with a new bike, having lost a ton more weight, and being in much better shape, I wanted to bump it up to an Olympic distance. This is a 1.5K (just under a mile) swim, 40K (just under 25 miles) bike, and 10K (6.2 mile) run. I could do all of these stand alone, so combining them couldn't be that bad, right?
At this point, additionally, I had graduated college, moved back in with my parents, floundered for a while, and finally figured out that I wanted to be a nurse. I was living in Chicago, attending nursing school at DePaul University. So what better triathlon to do than the Chicago Triathlon? Chicago 2012, I was coming!
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