Just in case you are following along at home and not a facebook friend. We did finish the triathlon yesterday! My friend B. finished her first and did awesome, I’m so very proud of her. I haven’t talked with her to see if she was sore yet today, but she agreed we should look for another one soon, so I don’t think she was too traumatized.

I was 10 seconds faster than last year. Ha! Finishing time of 1:27:21. I felt really good though, and probably could have pushed it a little bit harder and beat that by a lot more. The running! Wow. If you ever want to feel really fast, just train pushing a 20lb. stroller with a 35lb. 4-year old, (add an additional 5-6lbs. for all of the “stuff” she needs to bring) and then run a race without all of that! It is amazing the difference. I was faster on my bike leg too…my official timekeeper (Jamie) noted that when I got out of the pool. You were like 3 minutes faster on the bike! But they switched the transition areas and there was a longer run between the bike and pool (the 2nd transition) and after running and biking…that short little run (barefoot, over sticks and stuff, in your bathing suit, good times!) it is torture. That transition time I lost all I had made up on my run and bike.

Nonetheless, another tri down. I feel very good about it. Thanks to J. and the girls for making it up at a crazy early hour to come see me race. Jamie forgot my camera but I realized I wore the exact same outfit yesterday that I did here, here, and here. So you can pretty much look at those pics and imagine being there with us. Except no little pigtails this year – just my lucky, bright green hat!