Because one triathlon in Montreal wasn’t enough, two weeks after the first I was lining up for another. This time it was the sprint distance in the Montreal Esprit Triathlon over on Notre Dame Island in the Lawrence River. Race day started in a very unusual way: with a sleep in. My wave start wasn’t…

Here’s the story of how I ended up on the start line of the ITU Montreal Standard Distance Triathlon, three days after arriving in Montreal and fifteen and a half thousand kilometres from home, and what happened next.