In spite of the fact that she can't swim or ride a bike, Dena has decided she wants to go to Hawaii and do the Ironman sometime in the future. She has been watching the coverage of previous years races on a sports station (245 on Comcast).

I don't know if she will ever accomplish it or not but I will never tell her she can't do it. At least it has given her the motivation to increase her efforts to lose weight. She is planning to take swim classes and learn to ride bikes. It was not safe to ride bikes on the streets around our house when she was a kid so she never learned.

my best friends husband started running marathons. then he bought a bike, and did a Across North Carolina event--he fell in love with the bike. swimming was the one thing he had to learn, so he took a class.

i think Dena can do just fine, and having dreams and goals is always a great thing.

It's great to have a goal! Once she gets comfortable swimming and biking, she should start with a sprint triathalon and work up from there : )

I've thought about doing the ones offered by our rec center at school, but so far I've not done so because of schedules and being pretty sure I'd push myself farther right now than I can handle. I can run, swim and bike happily for long periods of time, but all three lumped together kind of feels like it's out of my current ability.

But they do sound like a ton of fun.