I am no serious athlete.  I was on my college’s crew team. I like to exercise sometimes. That’s where it ends. I have no physically competitive nature. However (as you might have noticed), I’m dating the exact opposite. Until I met Josh, I never realized how many different roles food has outside of entertainment and pleasure.

I hate when anyone says food is merely sustenance, but for Josh (and other athletes), it really is. Eating is a science; a formula that has to be correct in order for his body and mind to function properly together to allow him to achieve what he wants, even sometimes this just means getting through a normal work day.

I’m not saying athletes eat like robots. Josh eats what he wants. He rarely deprives himself of anything (except ice cream and cake frosting), but he is left pumping himself full of things he doesn’t always want to eat. Josh often lies there and complains “I haven’t eaten enough calories today, I don’t feel like eating anymore!!!”. He has spreadsheets to make sure he’s eating enough calories, taking in enough sodium to prevent hyponatremia, and eating enough carbs to keep himself alive and going. Have you ever seen the Quaker commercial with the bent over humans (go humans, go!)? That is Josh without his daily 3+ bowls of oatmeal. Can you imagine?

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This weekend (if my flight stops being delayed), I’m headed to the fabulous city of Chicago to see this guy:

On Sunday, August 30th, Josh is competing in the Chicago Triathlon benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Joined together through Team in Training, he and his teammates have raised over $180,000 to help find a cure for Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma.

This should be a great weekend. Josh has been training for this event for almost a year, through two moves and one job change. I can’t even tell you how exciting it is to see someone reach a goal they have worked so hard at for so long, and for a great cause.

Do I do triathlons too? Absolutely not. I sleep when he gets up to run or go on 50 mile bike rides at 6am on Sundays. Sometimes I have breakfast waiting. I prefer the chef/personal photographer role to anything else. He probably likes it that way too.
Will you be in Chicago this weekend? It’s going to be a beautiful weekend, so get outside and come hang out with me at the race course!