- You will never not smell like chlorine.
- You will only wash your hair once a week.
- You will take approximately 20 million showers a week.
- You will only shower at the gym or the swimming pool.
- You will get through an excessive amount of shower gel.
- You will be hungry all the time
- You will try and fuel your body properly but sometimes you will get home from swimming get straight into bed and eat a lot of custard creams.
- You will always be thinking what your next meal is.
- You will always be wondering what snacks you could eat on your bike (always fig rolls).
- Swimming, biking, running, sleeping and eating is all you will think about.
- And talk about.
- You wish people would stop asking you how your weekend was, because the answer is always "I cycled and ran".
- But deep down you hope people do ask you so you can tell them all about it.
- 2 French braids will become your signature hairstyle.
- You use phrases like 'brick' session and assume everyone knows what you mean.
- You will spend a ridiculous amount of time researching kit.
- And spend a ridiculous amount of money on said kit.
- You will constantly text & tweet the only other people you know crazy enough to do this for reassurance about 1000 times a day.
- Most people will call you mental.
- You catch yourself wondering if you could possibly do the full ironman next year.
- Then you google race reports.
- You will get a black toe nail.
- You will panic about ever seeing friends who don't swim, cycle or run.
- You will not have time to date.
- But you would not change any of it!
