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2023 First Tri-Sport Event, Bay City Driathlon
After a successful first two semesters at Delta College, I was ready to add a new layer to challenging myself. As the weather warmed and classes came to an end, I found what I was looking for on a poster that hung in the hallway: the Bay City Driathlon. Having lived a sedentary lifestyle for much of the past 10 years, spending my days mourning the loss of my old lifestyle and the ability to do all the things I had once loved, I was at my highest weight and lowest confidence. In the moment I saw that poster, I decided it was time for a change. I had conquered going back to school; now it was time to get back to living and enjoying life outside of 4 walls. I began training consistently and vigorously and pushing my own mental and physical boundaries to achieve this new goal. Four months later, crossing the finish line of that first race had me feeling a sense of accomplishment like I had never experienced. The 2023 Driathlon sent me and my life down a brand new path that I never expected to take.
11 medal for the 11 years bipolar took my life.
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After years of battling mental health obstacles, starting to find myself again by going back to college and running my first triathlon (Driathlon), and stumbling upon a holistic approach to treating bipolar, I began researching the effects I was experiencing after that first race. The positive feelings and new energy I had were not just from the accomplishment of finishing the race. Training actually helps to regulate the bipolar chemical imbalance I had been struggling with for so long. I continued my training and set out to accomplish a lofty goal in the summer of 2024: 11 medals for the 11 years my mental health obstacles controlled my life. I signed up for 10 triathlons and an 8.2-mile swim around Mackinac Island. Life threw a new obstacle at me on my way to every finish line, but I was unstoppable. By September, 11 medals hung on my wall as a testament to the fact that obstacles can be overcome by making the choice to
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Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim.
Goal Achieved on August 15-16.
19 hours and 32 miles. A group of four amazing swimmers swam stage 11, across the Saginaw Bay
The Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim presents epic, once-in-a-lifetime experiences for up to 68 swimmers to be part of history, play a role in a documentary film, and swim where no one has ever swum before and may never swim again.
A 411 mile, 17 stage, relay swim that starts above where the Fitzgerald lies and the journey will symbolically finish the ships journey to Detroit Mi.
Swimmers will raise funds for the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) to preserve the Whitefish Point Light Station, a most important beacon for all vessels entering or leaving Lake Superior since 1849, and the oldest operating lighthouse on the lake. In a most unfortunate irony, the lighthouse went dark due to a power outage and was no help to the Edmund Fitzgerald the night she lost her radar and ultimately lost her battle to the raging storm.
19 hours and 32 miles. A group of four amazing swimmers swam stage 11, across the Saginaw Bay
The Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim presents epic, once-in-a-lifetime experiences for up to 68 swimmers to be part of history, play a role in a documentary film, and swim where no one has ever swum before and may never swim again.
A 411 mile, 17 stage, relay swim that starts above where the Fitzgerald lies and the journey will symbolically finish the ships journey to Detroit Mi.
Swimmers will raise funds for the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) to preserve the Whitefish Point Light Station, a most important beacon for all vessels entering or leaving Lake Superior since 1849, and the oldest operating lighthouse on the lake. In a most unfortunate irony, the lighthouse went dark due to a power outage and was no help to the Edmund Fitzgerald the night she lost her radar and ultimately lost her battle to the raging storm.
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I recently signed up for an online challenge from which a percent of the proceeds went to 988, the national suicide hotline. For my challenge I biked from Caro, MI to Saginaw, MI - 42 miles. I achieved that goal in 3 hours 20 minutes. It was a great ride and a great challenge.
If you would like to support this or one of many other causes and get a badass medal, explore available challenges by clicking the link below. |
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