Eugene (KMTR) - A Eugene breast cancer survivor is now training for her first triathlon and she's blogging about it.
Krista Shultz says the run is a natural extension of what she endured during breast cancer treatment. She started blogging during her treatments because she got tired of answering the question, "How are you doing?"
A year and a half later, she still answers that question on her blog, but she’s doing it as she trains for her very first triathlon in June.
Krista bikes, runs or swims every day, often with other members of her training team. She details her training regimen in her blog as a way for other breast cancer survivors—and anyone else—to see that anything is possible.
That helps her going, because she says she's not much of a swimmer or bicyclist. But she considers triathlon training another form of therapy.
“Somehow, that goes along with the cancer,” Shultz says, “because the cancer was really hard … and I didn't get to control it. And the triathlon is something I get to choose to do. And it's really hard, so there's some kind of healing in it for me that I haven't figured out all the way, yet."
After the triathlon, Krista will stay in training as she prepares for the Eugene Susan g. Komen Race for the Cure in October.
You can check out Krista Shultz’ blog and even help her reach her triathlon fundraising goal by visiting triathlonkrista.wordpress.com.
