Well, in all fairness... if she came and posted on this message board about being a new Mom and wanting to regain her fitness by signing up and training for a tri... we would all be very supportive.

Yes, she's an actress. Yes, she has nannies and staff to take care of her kids so she can train. Yes, she will have the best of everything... bike... coach... etc.

But she still has to train and finish.

Think about doing your first tri... and what if you were going to have cameras on you... following you the entire time... watching and reporting your every move. How nervous would you be?

Shoot, they would have been reporting on my first race a duathlon like this,

"She's last on the run... she just got passed by a 76 year old he smoked her... the first transition was 7 minutes because she sat down to blow her nose and rest...a 65 year old just smoked her on the bike... WOW! She actually beat 8 people and didn't come in last place." HAHAA!


Otherwise, I think we all have our mind set a bit skewed. To a lot of people, a sprint tri does sound like an grueling endurance event.

We have to remember the "normal folk" out there who never run, never ride bike or swim. And to put all 3 together, sounds very impressive to many.