A Day when Change is Gonna Come

Today is a momentous day, a day, as Bruce Springsteen would sing, for the Rising, a day when Change is Gonna Come.

It’s the 20th January, it’s Inauguration day, a day to savour, a day to celebrate, a moment to remember.

Barack talks of the AUDACITY OF HOPE. What is your HOPE today? - To get better as an athlete, to improve as an administrator, a referee, a coach, a race organiser?

Barack’s inauguration speech was written by 27 year old Jon Favreau in a Star Bucks. Where’s your best work or training done?

Barack’s term is for 4 years. Where are you going to be in 4 years? Will you be seeking re-election? Or will you have been defeated in the primaries or at your parties nomination? Barack has a blank sheet in front of him, you have a training diary. Barack is already filling in his goals for the next 1,460 days. They say the first 100 days of any Presidency will define it. What will be your achievements in the next 100 days? Will you have contributed anything to your club? Will you have become a more professional organised disciplined athlete?

Barack’s campaign started as a whisper in Springfield and it carried across the Cornfields of Iowa..... He gave us his vision at the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston “There ‘s not a Liberal America and a Conservative America. There’s the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. There is not a black America and a white America and a Latino America and an Asian America. There is a United States of America”.

We have 50 members in our club, each with different backgrounds, ages, locations, abilities and a completely different set of aspirations.

Let us remember on today of all days that we are the Triangle Triathlon Club, we are one Club, we are united.

Let today – the 20th January every year - be our Inauguration day. Let today be the day when we celebrate together, console each other for our losses and commit ourselves to our mutual future bound together in the Red and Black, that is, .......

The Triangle Triathlon Club.