Grew up in rural Maine, basically wrestler/football player. Never been a runner. Married in 1996, up to 3 kids now, William 8, Abigail 6, Benjamin 10 months. I started my working career as a machinist, now a nurse. Started road biking during nursing school, decided this spring to jump into triathlon. Learning to enjoy the running, learning to swim better, faster. I am really enjoying finding the limits of my body and finding that they aren't really limits. My goal is the IRONMAN, before I am forty. So I got four years to get there and totally jazzed about what might come.