Sprint Triathlon

Stephen, Trish, and I did a Sprint Triathlon last night. The race is a .25 mile swim (imagine one time around a high school track), 6 Mile Bike ride, and 2 Mile Run.

The race was VERY hard!!

They split the race of 400+ people into 9 groups, starting 10 minutes apart.

It was 96 degrees.

The swimming section was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be. We all got kicked a few times in the water. We were wrong in our calculations in the swimming pool (we were off by a half) so the real swim race was REAL hard. Stephen and Trish would agree with me on this.
When I (finally) made it to the first marker in the lake, I was completely exhausted. Luckily there were plenty of other slow swimmers, so I had company.

After the swim we went to the 6 mile bike section which was mostly flat, but the two bridges at the half way point got a lot bigger when you went over them (Stephen had told us they would be flat.) There were several bike wrecks with paramedics assisting people along the course as we made it through. I was just grateful not to be one of them. At the end of the bike race we all felt tired but pretty good.

Then came the transition to the run.

Running after you have swam and biked is an interesting feeling. Your legs tell you that you are doing it all wrong as you are trying to make your body run. It takes a little while to remind your body how to run. The run portion was 2 miles long and my body was not happy with me at this
point. It was all I could do to convince myself to keep going and get it over. At that point I just wanted to be done!

All three of us finished, which is awesome.

So here are the times.
Stephen 55:49
Janet 1:22:09
Trish 1:24:31

Trish would like to do another one. I don't know and Stephen says he doesn't know if he ever wants to swim again.