Yes I am training for mini triathlon. A friend did it last fall and I thought. Hey why the heck not. I"m sober and it give me a good goal to work towards. But it's a mini.
I don't like lying. But what do I do? Be perpetually in "training."
I might try on if people ask. "I don't drink it's just a lifestyle choice."
And I do know people judge us. Think we are week. Think we are broken. But I think we are the strong ones.
If you want to impress me show me the guy who can fail 50 times in a row and still get off the mat and try again. I think that's who we are as people struggling with our recovery. We are very strong people.
Not someone whose never been challenged. Never had a life or death struggle.
Because make no mistake about it.
We are in a life or death struggle.
If you lose. You die. It could be fast or it could be slow. But you will die from it.
But you only lose once you stop trying.