triathlon

So I did a triathlon a couple of weeks ago. In our old ward, a friend of ours had signed up and after she invited me to sign up I figured - why not?! 

Admittedly, the event I prepared for the least was the swim; it was just a quarter mile in a nice warm lake, but . . . I walked most of it. The water was only 3-5 feet deep, and I was happy to just finish it alive.

 The greatest perk was probably getting to wear the pink swim cap . . . in fact, that was the only perk.

 After getting out of the water I immediately hopped on my bike and took a 12 mile run around the creek where we swam.

 The ride was beautiful and I felt confident about the training I'd done. My goal was to do it under an hour and I made it in 49 minutes. Even though I got passed a lot by girls on fancier bikes, I had a chance to pass a few of them on the 2 mile run.

  It was up a trail and over the dam, and my only goal was to not walk, and I did it!

Spencer documented the day beautifully, including this photo of me crossing the finish line! In the second photo I am holding my medal and turning back to return the ankle bracelet that tracked my time.

 Here's my friend Amy Parker. I accidentally missed the call to go with my age group, and ended up going with the thirty-year-old's, so I didn't see Amy when we started. Oddly enough, when our scores went online we saw that we finished 13 seconds apart!
It was all over in just an hour and twenty-three minutes. I will definitely do another in the future. I did it mostly as an excuse to train (which has been made clear by the fact that I haven't done an ounce of exercising since the triathlon) and I'll try and get Spencer to do one with me in the future.

And what a great surprise it was when the picture that one of the staff at the race took of us ended up on Facebook! Yeehaw.