The Real BC Triathlon

I’m certainly not an athlete and one that even touches on Triathlon. But, I’m going to go ahead to and say, what I think is an unpopular opinion – organized triatholon’s are over rated. You run, swim, and bike with a group of people on easy terrain feature-less. Meh. It’s great one has good cardio and I can definitely appreciate the work that is put into that, the dedication required to do it, and then race against other people. I do applaud those aspects of the athleticism and in no way am I dismissing the herculean effort required to do something like this. It’s not for me though.

I find it lacking a lot the “fun” that comes in with the “real triathlon” skiing/snowboarding, mountain biking, and hiking (with snowshoes in this case). This is primarily the lack of fun comes with the lack of features in the running and road cycling (again, I can appreciate how difficult it could be). Though, com’on, we can make anything a “triathlon”. For myself, the terrain is what matters in these activities. I find the additional skill set of needing to navigate technical terrain, puts these activities to a whole new level.

Big of me to say this coming from the land of the pretty-kind-of-flat, in Ontario, I know.

But, with Damian out in the BC, I can live vicariously through him watching his videos of him, humping up big ass mountains, snowboarding down them, and then shredding through some awesome trails. My fat ass will continue to sit in Onterrible and eat popcorn while watching the video, below!