Hi there, thanks for reading.
So I'm going to give writing a blog ago after my sister keeps nagging me to do one. Now before you go on reading I must apologise in advance for my horrendous grammar and punctuation. The reason why its so poor is because I have dyslexia but that shouldn't really be an excuse.
Anyway, this blog is going to be about my endeavours in triathlon. First though, I would like to give you a little insight into how I got into triathlon, considering triathlon isn't really the most appealing sport in the world with it being three disciplines and all; let’s be honest, you have to be a little bit mental to swim, cycle and then run!
My journey into the triathlon world started with the failings of grassroot football. You see I love football, I absolutely love it! I would play football all day and all night if I could which made it such a hard decision to change sport. When I was around 7-10 years old, I used to play football for a local team which was fantastic, however I came unstuck when I got severs disease. Severs disease is an inflammation of the growth plates in the heels, which causes pain at the bottom of the heel when put under repetitive stress for example, when running. It's supposed to only last around 2 years unless of course, your name is James Scott-Farrington, in which case you get it for the maximum amount of time - 4 years. By the time it had subsided, I was about 14-15 and had missed most of the development stages for skill sports such as football - I had a lot of catching up to do. By year 11, I was playing football for a local team, but only played two or three games in a whole calendar year before we moved up to the adult league.
I'm a patient guy and quite often ill just get on with whatever job I'm given, so without much complaint, I found a new club to play for. Despite being quite easily the fittest person there I was finding it difficult to get any time on the pitch, which really started to grind on me. I had a word with the guy who had put me in contact with the team and he told me that there was never any chance of me getting a game because A.) I didn't go to school with any of them and B.) I wasn't in the local having a skinful every Friday night . Instead he found somewhere else for me and I trained with them for about 3-4 months until it ended pretty much the same way.
When I was with the first club I had started running about 5-6 miles every other night and, after I started to realise that football was a joke unless you know the manager or your the next Messi you've no chance, I started running some more.
There's probably a lot of people who would agree with that running is pretty dull, I mean come on, running for 40-60 minutes breathing out your arse on a concrete road isn't the best thing you could be doing! So I started to wonder what else I could do. What could make running more interesting? I don't know maybe swimming and cycling before it?
Around November 2012 I went up to Leigh sports village, the home of tri team Wigan. It turned out I had visited on “time trial night”, whatever that means! I was told to warm up with everyone and do some strides to get ready for a 3km run around the track. I have to admit, I didn't really know what to expect as there looked to be a lot of fit people around me, so what should I do? just give it my best shot I guess. When the coach shouted go, I shot off; normally when someone new turns up and they shoot off at the beginning they normally die after the second lap. Not me though, I just kept running and to tell you the truth it wasn't very hard; I came in 2nd and I think I may have shocked a lot of people. That's when Mike Myers the main man at TTW came over to talk to me about what sessions they did and when.
Ever since then I've been hooked!
I had a good first year competing and I’ll be honest with you, triathlon is the one of the best things you could do. The atmosphere at races is incredible, the people are incredible and most importantly come the impending zombie apocalypse, you'll easily be to out run getting eaten! I joke of course, we're all screwed if the zombies take over.
At the moment I'm at Leeds Metropolitan University studying sports therapy and the Triathlon squad here is pretty unreal! Back at home I was the fastest runner, one of the quickest swimmers and average on the bike. Here at Uni however, I'm average at running, rubbish at swimming and well, the worst cyclist EVER! I wouldn't have it any other way though, as the only way to get better is if you train with people who are a lot better than you!
I think that's enough babble from me now! I hope you enjoyed reading, I should be posting a few blogs pretty frequently considering its getting close to race season. Don't worry too much if you don't hear from me, I'm probably getting distract by 'Uni work'
Thanks for reading!
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