diaryofasandbaggingtriathlete
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Physical Therapist and Professor/Researcher |
| Location | Glen Ellyn, IL, United States |
| Introduction | I am a physical therapist and teacher by profession, but my real passion in life is racing! I live for those rare moments in races when you feel you are really putting all the training and planning together with an all-out effort and total commitment to achieve a goal! That goal can be to win your age group, to finish in the top 10 or just to know that you are finishing strong and leaving nothing out there on the course. I wasn't much of an athlete growing up, but even as a 10 year old I would make my sister race me in complicated multi-sport events. We had a swimming pool and these races often involved swimming across the pool, doing a certain number of pull-ups on the clothesline pole, riding our bikes to the neighbors and back and then running around the house. Even then I loved the idea of one race to test every aspect of one's athletic abilities! It's cool I ended up as a triathlete. |
| Interests | triathlon, duathlon, running, cycling, swimming, adventure racing, travel, all kinds of science (neurology, biology, physics, astronomy, ecology, etc...), soccer, world cultures, politics |
| Favorite movies | Austin Powers: International man of Mystery, The Royal Tenenbaums, Life itself, Black Klansman |
| Favorite music | Grouplove, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, Andrea Bocelli, Nelly, Taio Cruz, Armin Van Buurin, Steve Aoki |
| Favorite books | The Overstory, The Hobbit, A Life Without Limits, Midnight Library, The Kite Runner, Until the End of Time, Surfacing, The Things We Cannot Say, The Book Thief, Just Mercy |