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It's hard to believe another year has come and gone already, and that I did my first triathlon nearly 10 years ago in the summer of 2000 as at a wee 18-year-old. Even our "winter break" from "triathlon academy" has come and gone and I leave for the next adventure in Thailand (+ Malaysia + Philippines + China) this weekend.
So much has changed for me in the span of this last year, and I've improved so dramatically in ways and speeds I'd never have imagined...only dreamt about. But I dared to dream and I will keep daring. On my teamTBB blog, you can read my 2009 Rookie Season Overview, and also a review of my first decade in triathlon. I also started up my own fan page-slash-official fan club on Facebook a couple weeks ago. I was actually surprised that in 10 days it already hit 300 members. I guess it's more than just my mom and dad that read my blog now. :D You can click here to become a fan of the Wongstar. Exciting news--I just signed on my own personal alcohol sponsor! Haamonii Shochu is a Japanese shochu based here in San Francisco. It kind of blows my mind because when I started this website back in 2007 I was a nobody amateur triathlete who was trying to emulate the pros' websites I saw. I didn't have real sponsors yet, so instead, on my "sponsors" page, I just listed what gear I used and which companies I would like to have as sponsors in the far-off future. Some of my friends will remember that I wrote down how cool it would be if I got an Asian beer company to sponsor me, like Tsingtao. Well Haamonii is definitely better than beer, and only 35 calories per serving too! I was always more of a cocktails girl too ;) Those are the big updates for now. This website will slowly get updated as well to reflect the changes for 2010. Some new sponsors, a 2009 photo album, race schedule etc. As usual you can get more frequent updates via my teamTBB blog, my Twitter, and now the new fan page on Facebook. So yes, I'll try to throw a monthly update on here but forgive me if I miss one of two. :) I try to keep training and getting faster my priority and if you didn't realize, I am actually my own webmaster for this site and my own promo person for all those other internet-whoring activities. Something must be working well though, cuz if you Google the phrase "triathlon superstar" you will see yours truly not just as the #1 hit, but 5 out of the 10 hits on the first page. (as of today) Try it! Someone should pay my marketing person more!! ;) I broke 10 hours for the first time, won the women's race, and took 2nd overall at GreatMan! Meaning only one guy could beat me!!! I actually chicked 8 out of the 9 pro men :D what an incredible feeling...going under 10 is something that was on my "lifetime" list of goals for triathlon. Actually that was the one thing I had mentioned 2 posts ago here when I mentioned the "someday dream list"!! I only broke 5 hours in a half 15 months ago at Vineman 70.3 (July 2008) and actually...I only broke 12 hours in an ironman for the first time at IM China this April. Only 6 months and 6 days before GreatMan. I guess I skipped the breaking 11 hours part!! 2009 has really become the triathlon season of my life--the best year of my life PERIOD! Even though it's already November, it's not over yet. GreatMan was my 4th ironman this year, and I am currently in Panama City Beach for #5, IM Florida, in a few days. I've been working on my race report which should be up on my teamTBB blog in another day or two. IM Cozumel is another 3 weeks later and is #6! I've raced Florida once back in 2003. It was my 2nd Ironman and PW (personal WORST) at 13hrs and 50 minutes. I wouldn't mind taking 4 hours off my time! hehe. thanks for reading and for all your support!!
Well it is already October here on Jeju Island, South Korea, where I am at our teamTBB training camp through the end of the month. As my teammates go off to the Ironman World Championships in Kona this week, I'm staying in Korea to race the GreatMan ironman on Oct 25th, followed by Ironman Florida 2 weeks later and Ironman Cozumel 3 weeks after that! Yep that's 3 ironmans in the space of 5 weeks... The training here is going great and I'm making drastically crazy improvements. I won the local marathon here last weekend with a huge new PR of 3:15:02 (even going off course like an idiot, d'oh!!). I'm pretty happy with that considering I only broke 4 hours for the first time about 6 months ago!
Thanks for visiting and stay tuned. It may be October but the best performances of my rookie pro season have yet to come! Wow I just had my best race ever at the Embrunman iron-distance race in France! Improved my swim to a 1:05 and smashed my best marathon with a 3:33 to run my way up to 5th place and 2000 euros! My race report is here on my teamTBB blog...
Since my embarassingly long ago last post on this website, so much has happened. But I've been making good on my promise that 2009 really has been the year all my dreams are coming true! I got my pro card in May, won my first ironman distance race, and significantly improved my swim and run just last weekend...times I don't think even my coach expected me to achieve for another year, or two, or three...! There is one more thing on the "someday dream list" for triathlon that I think I am actually capable of achieving this year already. I'll let you know when I get it! I've also changed my domain name... I'm starting to get pretty well known in the tri circles as "the Wongstar" so what better way than to move to thewongstar.com? :) Things are getting updated at last...I've even got two galleries up. Subscribe to Twitter if you want to stay up to date on whenever I make more changes. Thanks for all your support! happy new year! I am going to of course first apologize to everyone that still come by to check out my site hoping for an update and walking away extremely disappointed. Sorry to let you down! but today I am working on it. "Monthly updates?!" you've been scoffing. I know, I know! I'm mortified, believe me. You miss a monthly update, then another one, and before you know it, your poor neglected website is severely overdue for a massive overhaul....you give a September update, the weeks fly by, and suddenly it's a brand new year! I was completely swamped with training my butt off for 2 months at rookie boot camp, and then came home in time to study my butt off for my prosthetic board exams. I took the last of the 3-part exam just this past weekend, and am SO GLAD to be done!! I feel like I can finally come up for air. hey fans and lovers ok, it's the last day of July so I better do my "Monthly YAY Jocelyn" update. Do you ever look at my website and just feel like cheering for me? I do. yaaaay Jocelyn. yaaay! That is the whole point of the website, really. It's for self-promotion in the sport, for the sponsors primarily, and the 1 or 2 of you in my fan club. ;) Quite honestly, jocelynwong.com was already taken, jocelyn.com may or may not be a porn site, and yayjocelyn.com sounded so much cooler! I got the idea from Jessi Stensland's website actually, hers is gojessi.com. So I thought about gojocelyn.com, and it was my friend Bill in Dallas who suggested yayjocelyn.com. that's the story! hey, can you believe it's June already?? I only started working with Coach Brett and teamTBB a year ago in June and I'm amazed at how quickly the year has gone by. Residency is sort of winding down, as in, there is only a month and a half left but there's still so much to do! I have to get my research paper done and I've got two 70.3 races on the schedule in this time frame too. what was I thinking?! hey sports fans, wow! it's been over six months since I've updated the yayjocelyn.com blog??? what has happened in the meantime? well, I took 5th place amateur at the Treasure Island Tri-turned-Duathlon, then was madly studying for my orthotic board exams. I found out in February that I passed, so I am now officially a certified orthotist! that makes me Jocelyn Wong, MSPO, CO. |