No more competition

I love cycling, running and swimming and to get better one of the best motivators is to race. So every ride, run and swim I did became a training session with a race objective. Getting out of bed on Sundays at 4 am to go to a beach, park or track for a 7.30 am race start, in the dark was not that much fun.

I need challenges but the need to train was taking the fun out of riding and ocean swimming. The recent shark scares around Sydney set off a lot of paranoia with poor sharks being caught and killed. That was enough for me to quit, not my fear of sharks but rather the reaction from the media and pressure the NSW Government into doing something stupid.

Hopefully soon I will do a nice long, slow solo ride, South Coast or Southern Highlands.