the weather channel...

this is one of those things that i could never really understand before. back even before i decided to do triathlons in 2004 and around the time i started mountain biking in 2000, waking up to the weather channel was my FAVORITE thing. i remember telling my mountain biking girlfriend about it at the time and her thinking it was kinda weird but cute. well, at some point during me and fiancee's relationship i stopped watching the weather channel. in fact i couldn't recall WHY i liked it or what feelings it gave me that i wanted to in the first place. i'd be like "i remember liking this but for the life of me i don't know why"

yesterday morning i remembered. more importantly i felt like i did back then. i'm sure by now you figured out why i watched it and why i stopped. it's simple. i was a mountain biker first and a triathlete second. both of those activities are shaped by what the weather will be like that day. so watching the weather channel was my way of figuring out what my day was going to look like. was it going to be a rest day, gym workout day, open water swim, pool swim etc. people with active outdoor lifestyles watch the weather!!! plain and simple, if you're unconcerned about the weather, you don't have an active outdoor lifestyle.

i'm saying this as further proof that the inside me is back to 2004 but the outside me is fat and outta shape. as long as the inside me is back the outside will shape itself to fit in time.

-twc dominator