Endurance Turtle A journey through this turtles triathlon adventures

Lately, we have had a lot of earthquakes in the America’s section of the “ring of fire”. It makes me think, are we prepared? People say that the first 3 days are what you need to prepare for. That means enough food and water to get you through until society stabilizes.  I know we probably have enough food, but water is something we should definitely stock up on. Another thing that a lot of people don’t think about, is what would you do if you were at work and an earthquake hit. You can’t drive home, your car is either stuck in a parking structure or the streets are too dangerous. Well, you can always do what we were meant to do….walk. But with our societies increase in obesity, there would be a lot of people that would not be able to get home.

Fitness is something of a new thing to me, being able to work out for hours at a time. Being able to sustain that level of output, and I know now that if I had to I could run/walk the 8 miles to my house. Would it take me a couple hours? Yes. But I could do it! So I keep running gear in my office so that in case of an emergency I can run home. Because when a crisis hits, we will only have ourselves to rely on…no taxi’s, buses, cars…just our body. It would truly be survival of the fittest.

I know it is a bit far out there, but it could happen and wouldn’t you want to be prepared? So think about that, if you had to what would you be capable of? I know for a fact that I would be able to get on my bike and ride 50+ miles. I know that I could put some running shoes on and run the 8 miles to my house. So sometimes it isn’t just about the next triathlon, or marathon, but what would you be capable of when it came down to it? When it came down to survival, something we as Americans are very unfamiliar with, how would you survive?