JOIN US FOR A DIY STANDARD DISTANCE TRIATHLON
Triathlon can be an expensive and logistically complicated sport - races are often expensive, sourcing bikes & wetsuits can be tricky & getting them to the right place at the right time impossible sometimes… but when life gives you lemons - MAKE LEMONADE! 🍋
Whilst it would have been amazing to do an organised event, feel the roar of the crowd & cross a real finish line, we’re both students on a budget who live over 100 miles apart with bikes at our respective homes with various weekend commitments. We simply couldn’t find an event that worked, and in the end decided that a DIY triathlon was the way forwards! 🏊🏻♀️ 🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
We paid a small fee to swim at the local lake, created a route online that was 40km starting at the lake and ending at home. We used old mountain bikes (that might not meet British triathlon standards but get you from A to B!) to get the bike leg done and ran a 10k trail route straight off the bike. It wasn’t perfect, but triathlon isn’t just about chasing times or strict official rules - it’s about pushing yourself to achieve distances you never thought possible, and sharing the incredible sense of achievement you get with the people around you, whether that’s just one person (Maddie) or the 500 other competitors in some of these huge events. 🥹
Whilst it’s also not about the medal at the end, Maddie & I do love a cheeky token of achievement so with the help of Etsy the unofficial Essex triathlon even had finishers medals! 🏅
It goes without saying it was an absolute pleasure to do this together & make Maddie’s goal a reality! 🤩 🫶🏻