My journey to the start of my current day discipline, triathlon, was a journey that, over the course of several years, consumed me bit-by-bit. Slowly, triathlon encompassed my life and became my career focus in 2008. But it wasn’t before I had ended my 8 years as an elite swimmer, back-packed New Zealand, Australia and Asia during my gap year as a university student, and successfully completed my Master’s Degree, that I truly embarked on my journey as a professional triathlete.

While my professional journey started back in 2008, the non-professional, amateur exploration of triathlon started in 2004. I’ll never forget it! It is still clear as day; my very first “Try-A-Tri” called “Women with Power”. I wore a baggy shirt, had a bike three sizes too big, and didn’t really have any clue what I was supposed to do other than swim, bike and run as fast as I could. I won that event, but it didn’t captivate me. It would be 2 years later that I would complete my second triathlon and it was there, in 06, that sparked my dream of becoming an Olympian.

Finding My Balance

Grinduro by Lindsay Dwyer

Data in Triathlon by Thorsten Radde