Drew Wohl

There are some very funny videos out there poking fun at people training for Triathlons - particularly the full 140.6  One has a person working through some serious injuries, with someone else questioning their sanity.  The reply?  “When you see my medal and cap, you will understand.”  I sort of adopted it as my mantra leading up to last week's Ironman 70.3 in Wilmington, NC.  I had run into some issues during training, a kidney stone and a couple of upper respiratory infections, including one the week of the race - I took my last antibiotic the morning of the race.  But I was pretty sure I would still make the cut-off time.  I had taken a great swim lesson a few weeks earlier and started working on technique, which seemed to help.  And the swim is known to be fast due to current and I was hoping that would help. Went to bed early, about 9:30PM and woke up promptly at 1:30AM race day.  Not worried or concerned, just woke up.   3 hou...

Two years ago today I opened up the report from CT scan. It was one of those times I expected good news - 80-85% of recurrences of my cancer comes back in two years. This scan was two years, three months. Thought I made it. (The lung met was there from the beginning, just small, so I was counting from the very beginning 😀) But it looked like it was in the lungs and lymph nodes. A scan two months later showed it was progressing fast. I started Triathlon training. Today, like last year, I found race to do for the anniversary of the cancer coming back. A 5K. But the course was complicated and somehow I missed a section. So it wound up being 2.71 miles for me. I blame chemo 😜 I went through things and came up with some stats. Since this all started 33 Chemotherapy Treatments 21 CT Scans 7 MRIS 5 X-Rays 3 Pet Scans 3 Radiation Treatments 3 Sugeries 2 Needle Biopsies 22 of the chemo sessions have been since October, 2018. From the time I started training up to me having to go back on chemo...