#try-athlete

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http://withheadheartlegs.tumblr.com Sandy. Previously known as try-athlete has started fresh. I've had the pleasure of meeting this girl in real life and she is amazing. Even if you weren't following her before, you should be.

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4 years is a long time

Today is exactly 4 years since I moved to Melbourne and I wrote about this on facebook, but I wanted to touch on it here, because

1. I like my blog better than Facebook.

2. I like the people on Tumblr better than the people on Facebook.

3. I wanted to elaborate a bit more and get kinda mushy and people on facebook don't appreciate that.

4. My mum doesn't have facebook.

I was a tiny 18 year old when I moved out of home, to a completely different state away from any friends or family I had. I thought I knew shit about life, turns out I didn't!

I have had many many days where I just think to myself What the hell am I doing here??  and days when I miss my friends and family back at home, BUT then I have days like yesterday where Amy told me she feels like my unofficial big sister and today where Sandy told me that I helped her find herself and all the other friends I've made either from tumblr or from "real life" (which sounds so stupid now because my tumblr friends are my real life friends) it makes me realise that I have my own family here and I wouldn't swap them for the world.

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It's going to be 39C today

That's 102F for any Americans out there. 

102 degrees

I am really not looking forward to this.

In other news I saw this on my dash just before I went to bed last night, I spent all night kinda fangirling (I'm not sure that's the right word, but I was super chuffed)

try-athlete replied to your photo: Sometimes I forget I made my PB’s when I was a lot...

Your times are getting so awesome!

It just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when people like Sandy and Briony, who are so super fast comment little things like this. Seriously, my first km took me 5 minutes and I was almost dead by the end of it, the whole time I was just thinking about those two and how a 5 minute kilometer is a pretty average paced run for them.

So thank you Sandy, you made my night

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try-athlete replied to your post: I now know 3 friends + one of my cousins that are...

Hahaha and you’re going to look snazzy in a suit too. YAY I IZ FRIEND!

I think you have to invite all of tumblr to the wedding now, or at least provide a live video stream

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try-athlete replied to your post: Yep, it's definitely shingles.

It’s actually good that you get chicken pox now, because as much as you don’t want it now, if you get it when you’re older it could be A LOT worse. You’re in the prime of your life now and your immune system is great.

Well I'm not convinced, but if you say so...

Still, it might not be anything yet. I'm probably panicking for no reason.

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Just received a report from the organisers of this weekend's triathlon. They're saying that because of rain tomorrow and thunder on Saturday, that the swim might be cancelled and replaced with a 1.6km run. 

I personally would prefer for the swim not to be cancelled because then it's a triathlon instead of a duathlon (plus I can see how much I've improved). Hopefully the weather clears up enough to make the water safe on Sunday morning. Plus it means try-athlete can fully experience her first triathlon properly.

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It's on

try-athlete is challenging me on Sunday to see who will get the faster triathlon time. We're both doing the same event composed of a 500m swim, 20km bike and 5km run. Place your bets now.