Triathlon as the meaning of life Then I has 50 years old, my son gave me a road bike. It was a brain explosion.The fact is that as a child I raced a lot on a road bike, but then many years passed during which I stopped doing it. So when I was able to go on the road again, I experienced incredible happiness, despite my advanced age. From that day on, a triathlon burst into my life and turned everything upside down. Everything changed, I changed my job to free up time for classes, changed my diet and completely gave up alcohol. In 3.5 years, I lost about 20 pounds of weight, went the full ironman distance, four halves and ran 7 marathons. And now I'm absolutely happy with these changes, because life has meaning, and now I have a lot of interesting plans and goals for the future. For me, triathlon is not a sport, it is a way of life.