Gearing up.

That's a term for "getting ready to kick some proverbial ass". Even Lance Armstrong started at the same place as everyone else. The Beginning. It takes years of trial and error to find your groove sometimes. The ones you read about succeeding in sports or business at twenty years old are prodigies. The rest of us have to work at it. Tyler has been working on a new thing. The triathalon. Miles of running per week, working out at the gym, swimming and cycling. In his first and only triathalon to date, he came in third. It was a small event, but still quite competitive. Turns out that not everyone is a swimmer, and Tyler was the first one out of the pool in light of the fact that he only has his "floating on my back" certification. But, there he was, out of the pool and onto his WalMart mountain bike. It was flat out sad to see these guys behind him jump on their $2000.00 bikes and take off to catch him. About five miles out in the boonies, Jacob and I spotted two guys coming over the top of the hill and neither was Tyler. To our amazement the next guy to show was Tyler on his mountain bike. The seat had fallen and here he comes with knees 'a pumpin' at right angles to his bike. Looked like a damn sewing machine with determination dressed in a goofy helmet. As we cheered him on he made it back to home base in third place. His back was half dead but as he threw down the bike and took off running, you could see that someone was gonna pay. If he hadn't lost so much time, the afterburners would have smoked these two guys in the lead. One of them told him afterward that when he saw Tyler pass him going the other direction, he was glad that he had gained his lead in cycling or Tyler would him killed him in the running. Well, as the event ended, Tyler came zooming in strong at third place. This week, after much deliberation, Tyler will be getting his first used Triathalon bike from Ebay. That doesn't imply cheap. Just a few bucks off the ridiculous price. Anything that costs that much should have a motor. Gearing up has begun. So time, time will tell. Remember the old addage, "It's not where you start that matters, it's where you finish."