Two years and one week ago, on this blog I wrote an entry about my first experience with triathlon at the 2004 Seafair Tri in Seattle. I remember all the anxiety and anticipation of that race, how I felt when I finished, and now huge the whole thing seemed. Little did I know that experience would change my life at a fairly fundemental level. After that race I kept training, kept racing, and started accumulating bikes like crazy. I started racing bikes again, and training, racing, and lycra have again taken a...