Thank you!

A bit of a different entry today.  I've been writing this blog for getting on 2 years now.  Have to say I was inspired to start writing about my experience as a triathlete based on how I had seen others document their experience.  However, at no point did I really think anyone - outside of a small circle of friends - would actually be reading it.  And perhaps ignorance in that regard really was bliss.

So for the past 2 years I've been writing on and off about my experience, primarily as I moved towards and beyond my second consecutive Ironman Canada event.  I certainly wasn't as dutiful as I should have been and I guess when one thinks one is writing for himself there really isn't much pressure to write updates every week or even every couple of weeks.  Truth is when you are in training mode one week pretty much looks like any other week other than the occasional breakdown, weather event or similar tragic-comic event.

Nevertheless, I never truly thought others might be paying attention to my experience.  It's only been in the past couple of months as I've undergone a significant change in my career, and started a leadership blog as a consequence (http://itsaboutleadership.blogspot.ca/), that I even stumbled across the fact that people had been paying attention to my triathlon adventure.

As I said before, I expected that a small circle of friends would drop in to take a look at my entries every once in a while.  A few of them even became followers.  However, in the past few weeks I have been STUNNED to discover that I have had people from AROUND THE WORLD "drop in" on me!   So bear with me as I list for you the countries from which views of my blog have taken place - Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands, Phillipines, Germany, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Thailand, Austria, Australia, Italy, Brazil, India, and Denmark!

I am truly astonished.

So I want to thank all of you for tuning in and watching the adventure.  Now that I know you are out there I'll try to write to a higher level, one that is more worthy of a worldwide audience.

I would also love to hear from others across the world about their experiences in triathlon.  I am learning so much from my own personal journey and from my own small circle of friends and colleagues here in Alberta.  I can only imagine how much richer my experience would be if I could benefit from the experience of amateur athletes around the world!