The life and times of a 50 year old triathlete and triathlon coach. I went to Chattanooga with the intention of enjoying my final full Ironman. My goal was to go out and enjoy the day. In the few days leading up to the race the weather forecast was for hotter and hotter weather.

The vastness is bearable only through love. Musings of a starry-eyed physics student. What do we have to look forward to in January? On the 3rd the Quadrantid meteor shower will reach its peak with an expected show of up to 80 meteors per hour. There will be free public astronomy events. My first Open University exam.

For myself it was a way to stay in touch with family, reconnect with old friends and connect with new people. This was done by sharing little bits of our lives with each other. The interesting, the amazingly boring and everything in between. But increasingly it seems a few people want to bombard my timeline with asinine videos, cliched mottoes and quizzes an intellectually challenged 9 year old would find easy.