Athena vs. the Personna

Athena is highly, stressed, slightly overweight wanna be athlete. She’s a late blooming gal, that could run (slowly) could not ride a bike (afraid of traffic) and was deathly afraid of water.

Athena has a Personna  named Moll. Moll is the rocker babe/biker chick with a take no prisoner attitude. This girl makes you think of a dangerous weapon. She has wide apple-green eyes. Her silky, long, curly brown hair is worn in a style that is a reminder of a child’s mop of fuzzy, unkept hair. She has an Amazonian build. Her skin is white. She has high cheekbones. Her wardrobe is sexy and flattering, with a lot of silver jewelry (dangly earrings, massive number of wrist bangles on her left wrist).

“Fearless”, is Moll’s  motto. “Can’t swim and can’t sit a bike”, interjected Athena. “If your not living on the edge you are taking up too much room…find a tri clinic”, responded Moll with positive assertiveness.

Two years later, after dizzying hours on a bike, and endless, mind numbing hours in the pool and with the aid of an array of talented swim (TI), cycle and run coaches, the Athena emerged. A few sprint tri later Athena realized that it was not a lot of fun and highly frustrating to place DFL (dead f…… last).

“Can’t you ride faster? Find a cycle coach,” ordered Moll.

Thus six months of coaching with a coach that held Athena’s hand, reassured her that a cardiac event was not in the future and that death by hill climbing was a remote occurrence- a cyclist was born.

“Whistler GranFondo” exclaimed Moll, “SIGN UP NOW!”

“Need to stiffle this Personna ”, muttered Athena as hit she submit button on the on line entry form. 

There in lies the challenge, the Vancouver to Whistler Gran Fondo in September 2010. It’s a 120 kms of uphill climbing on the very beautiful, senic sea to sky highway. It will be the adventure of the year, but there’s the challenge…there will be a lot of endurance training,  hill climbing  and aerobic base building in the next 6 months. Will power, confidence and discipline

One last sojourn before the cycling adventure begins – two weeks diving in the waters of Belize.

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