Triathlon Blog

Gone are the days when women quietly and meekly sit by the sewing machine, making clothes for their children or knitting quietly by the window, prim and proper and subdued. The modern woman loves challenges and the triathlon field seems to be one of women’s new playgrounds. In a sport so physically demanding only the fittest survives, women won’t let men dominate so easily. Bodies which used to be fragile have been honed for tough physical exertion. Muscles which, in women, are hard to tone due to the low testosterone levels are trained extensively so that the triathlete sports a stringy musculature. The women of triathlon sure deserve applause.

Even being sick, she didn’t back out — Emma Snowsill bags first place in Noosa triathlon. Snowsill almost walked away from the competition due to an illness but thought better of it and went for broke. Well, her efforts weren’t in vain since she has won one of Australia’s biggest triathlon events. The Noosa triathlon event is held every November in Australia and Snowsill has won the title from 2003 to 2005. Winning the title again this 2007, I think, means more than all her preceding titles seeing as she has won despite not being in perfect condition.

In other news, Julie Ertel is still probably celebrating her latest and first world cup victory in Cancun. The American triathlete is a gold medalist in the Pan-Am games and this victory is as, if not, a thousand times sweeter. Ertel, reportedly, was recently married and her husband was very supportive of her career (good for you, hubby).

Snowsill and Ertel are only faces of women in triathlon. There are countless others which proves that something as challenge and demanding as triathlon is for everybody and anybody who has the guts and the drive to try.