Triathlon

My friend Jaime called me to let me know she was going to be in town and if i could go on a run with her that Sunday.  Somehow in about 24 hours it turned into signing up for a Triathlon the next day. (1st one for both of us with NO training)  That night we scrambled around trying to figure out what we were going to wear for the swim, what bikes to use and figuring out how the whole transition station works.  Jesse insisted that we needed goggles and better bikes but we blew him off and went simple.  2 of my friends had already signed up and trained so we met up with them that morning.  Notice in the background, we are the ONLY ones without a wetsuit, goggles and didn’t warm up.

  

I was so happy to be out of that water and on land, i struggled with the swim.  Jaime said my eyes were glazed over and foggy in the water.  I was so dizzy and disoriented the whole swim but hung on.

Tell me we don’t look good, the only ones without a racing bike or bike gear

running 7:30 pace after the swim and bike.  We stayed together the whole race and i couldn’t have done it without Jaime.  We pushed hard!

 

Our biggest fans!  Jesse arrived just in time to see us get on the bike.  We had to do 3 laps around a loop and he said that he could hear us before he could see us.  We chatted the whole race and i couldn’t have done it any other way

Thanks Jaime for always being down for anything.  I can’t tell you how much fun that was, you are awesome.  Not only was it fun, we got 11th place in our age group.  I think it will be our last Tri, looking for another adventure.