Keep Tri-ing

Some people are born with natural ability and personal determination for excellence and some people (namely myself) are not. I asked my friend how his eldest sister (she's 34) was coming along on her triathlons. Here was his reply: "Alison's doing great - she won her age group at the Grand Columbian Iron Triathlon at Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. She placed 2nd in the Iron women and 10th overall; her combined time was 11 hours, 51 minutes, 50 seconds. She hasn't done a lot of triathlons and this was her first Ironman." Oh, Alison is also a fucking doctor and raises a kid on her own. The last respectable thing I did was not eat the last brownie in the break room.