Hello to all!

I am 52 years old, always have been very active in swimming, had to give up running in my 30s.

Former Marine and Martial artists, ran cross country in high school, recreational cyclist.

Started running again about 6 months ago with no knee pain. I was so ecstatic I quickly advanced to 3 milers.

Then the bike and pool called my name for cross training purposes and that's when I discovered Triathlon.

I had no idea it would be so much fun so with a few months of semi-focused training and reading about 5 books ( and a few inspiring audio books by Chris McCormack and Mark Allen) I signed up for my first Tri Ssept 9 2012. I finished but did horribly in the swim. Two weeks later I tried it again and again finished but had some equipment failure. I tweaked my equipment and did my third Triathlon the next week which was last weekend in September and did much better in the swim, did well on the bike considering the course and ran 11 minute miles. These were all Sprint Triathlons. My logic was that if you eventually want to compete at Olympic and 70.3 levels then a Sprint should be a good work out. I also believe in the golf principle, (wanna get better? Play more golf!)

Unfortunately most people I tell this story to don't even believe that I did three triathlons in one month, so my question to the community is, how many per month or per year is the standard. That,I cannot seem to find in any books.