Me Versus Me: Pro Triathlete Meg Dirito on Racing, Motherhood, and Never Choosing Between Them.
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Me Versus Me: Pro Triathlete Meg Dirito on Racing, Motherhood, and Never Choosing Between Them.
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Meg Dirito (@dirito21) has never separated who she is from what she does. She swam D1 at Bucknell, where she is now in the Hall of Fame. She became an emergency vet. She became a mother. And when triathlon found her in 2018 — she didn't know how to ride a bike — she became that too.
In this conversation, Meg talks about what it looks like to hold all of it without letting any of it go. Three workouts on her days off. Training during her two-hour lunch break between ER shifts. The grace she gives herself on the days that fall apart — and why playing Scrabble with her son sometimes matters more than the bike session.
She races as a pro. She comes in at the back of the field. She has made her peace with that completely, because she long ago decided that the only race worth running is the one against yesterday's version of herself.
This is a conversation about discipline, joy, and what it means to build a life where nothing has to be sacrificed — just integrated.
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