Subject: Hi from The UK Hi,
My Name is Gareth, Im 26 and live in Milton Keynes, England.
I Have recently become a Proud first time father of a little boy named John. Before my girlfriend became pregnant I had been running and cycling alot and competing in distance races from 10k > full marathon. Im not the quickest person about...infact im fairly near the bottom every time i race (half marthon best time is 1h48, marathon is 4h50 ) but i race because i enjoy it.
When my girlfriend became pregnant I stopped all the training as well as giving up drinking as a show of solidarity (I know giving up exercise seems stupid because someone else cant do it as easily ). My girlfriend was having a hard time with gaining the weight during pregnancy (emotionally that is ) as she has always been very fit and slim.
Now that the baby is here we are free to return to training and I joined up here as i felt that it would be nice to add another string to my bow and take up the challenge of competing in triathlons although the time constraints of new baby + work means theres nowhere near enough time to train for Ironman distance so im gonna start out slow and do some sprints/olympic distance races locally, then hopefully when he's grown up a bit and any brother or sister have too then maybe i'll be able to dedicate the time needed for the insane distances.
Anyway thats me so far. I hope everyone is well.
Happy racing! Edited by gauckland 2013-10-07 7:55 AM
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