Triathlon

This past Saturday, I "competed" in my second triathlon.  At the beginning of this year, my friend Janet and I set a goal, ultimately to loose weight, but to also do a triathlon.  This particular event is termed a sprint triathlon as opposed to an olympic triathlon.  We swam for 1/2 mile, biked for 12 miles, and ran for 3.3 miles.  An olympic is double all of that.  The first one was held up in Ludington on a May 18th.  It was in a pool, so the water was fine:-)  Our dear friend Tami came with us to cheer us on and take some pictures of us....so we could actually say that we had done it! Ha ha!  Both Janet and I were on the computer that night thinking when we could do our next one.  We had so much fun!!!  I would encourage anyone to try it.  It was a great work out just training for it!  

Well, on Saturday, this one took place in Fremont and I was joined by the rest of my family.  I am so glad they were able to come...the girls were so cute, and encouraging.  Janet and my sister joined me for this one.  We had decided to do this one only two weeks ago....we had not been "training" since our first one back in May.  So for the last two weeks, we did the best we could to make it to the gym.  Summers are so busy!  

The swimming was terrible.  There were people kicking in your face and I also heard some say that others were pulling them down into the water!  The biking was kind of fun.  There was a nice breeze and it was fairly flat.  The running is were I struggle.....but we made it!  

We had a good time, and I am so glad that we did it.  I am excited to do another one next year! Hopefully by then, I will be another 40 pounds lighter:-)