It's time to do something

I'm sitting here at about 11:30 AM on a Saturday morning, biding my time. The girlfriend went home to Southern California, I'm organizing some of my previous clips
from the Guardian...and a sad realization struck me. I woke up at 9, went straight to
my laptop, and have done very, very little for the last 2-and-a-half hours. I talked
to my roommate's friend Tessa for a little bit, who is visiting. She and Katie went on
a run on the fire trail east of the Berkeley campus. A run! At 7:30 in the morning! On a Saturday!

Tessa is the type of girl who seems like she has limitless energy, always wanting to do something. She had hiked Half Dome over in Yosemite a few days ago, and she told me just now that she runs pratically every day. Yowsa.

She also told me she wanted to do a triathlon over here near Angel Island. Which got me thinking: a triathlon is something I've always wanted to do. Just yesterday, during another stretch at work, I noted "Triathlon" as something that I should do before I head off to grad school. I view a triathlon as the ultimate challenge, a synthesis of man and machine, of land and water, of physical grit and mental endurance. You can run 20 miles? Try cutting through efficiently through water stroke after stroke. Expert biker? Let's see how your legs feel on the run to the finish.

Tessa also gave me some sites to look up, and after some browsing, I found some events calendars:
http://www.envirosports.com/events/
http://www.theschedule.com/

Which led to me finding a sprint triathlon! It looks like a perfect goal, although the turn around time is short: 7-8 weeks.

http://www.tbfracing.com/events/tri4fun3.html (Herald, CA on Aug. 2)
or
http://www.theschedule.com/EventInfo.cfm?EventID=18905 (Santa Cruz, CA on Aug. 10)

There are plenty of websites to facilitate training:
http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/trainingplans-list.asp?h=1
http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=fitness&category=triathlon&conitem=51dff28c348e4010VgnVCM100000cfe793cd____&page=3

But I need to get a bike.
Here we go!