My first triathlon-aren't you proud!? The Bear Lake Brawl at beautiful bear lake. The final time was 1 hour 54 minutes. 750 meter swim, 12 mile bike and 5K run all under 2 hours! Yeah baby! It was so fun and I am going to do another next year. However, if you would have asked me during the run if I was going to do another one, I would have said h** no and flipped you off--- But now, I can only remember the fun-not the pain(oh the burning calves) I accomplished such a feat with my awesome friends from the ER, they are such a great group of people. The morning started very early about 5am followed closely by my IBS(irritable bowel syndrome) that I get when I am nervous. We proceed to the check in where they mark us with our numbers in permanent markers on our arms and legs. I feel slightly more hard core with these new power markings-is that bad-hhhmm anyway we decided to check out the swim. Out to the bouy and back not bad, even do-able I think. They then procede to inform us that our swim has changed and is not in fact to the buoy and back but around all three buoys. Twice the distance. Nice. That makes me feel awesome. Time to put on the wet suit. I don't know if any of you have ever put on a full body wet suit but its not pretty. squatting, pulling, tugging what more can I say. The saving grace? My pink swim cap. Why you ask? It's pink. It was the source of my power on the swim. The bike went without any catastrophic event other than I almost ate it when I clipped out. The run. PAINFUL. I hate running to begin with so it didn't really stand a chance. But then I finished and it was great and I loved it. So there it is folks. The end.
Triathaletes- hmm I think I like the sound of that
The oh so painful run
Nice bum, where ya from?
My first triathlon-aren't you proud!? The Bear Lake Brawl at beautiful bear lake. The final time was 1 hour 54 minutes. 750 meter swim, 12 mile bike and 5K run all under 2 hours! Yeah baby! It was so fun and I am going to do another next year. However, if you would have asked me during the run if I was going to do another one, I would have said h** no and flipped you off--- But now, I can only remember the fun-not the pain(oh the burning calves) I accomplished such a feat with my awesome friends from the ER, they are such a great group of people. The morning started very early about 5am followed closely by my IBS(irritable bowel syndrome) that I get when I am nervous. We proceed to the check in where they mark us with our numbers in permanent markers on our arms and legs. I feel slightly more hard core with these new power markings-is that bad-hhhmm anyway we decided to check out the swim. Out to the bouy and back not bad, even do-able I think. They then procede to inform us that our swim has changed and is not in fact to the buoy and back but around all three buoys. Twice the distance. Nice. That makes me feel awesome. Time to put on the wet suit. I don't know if any of you have ever put on a full body wet suit but its not pretty. squatting, pulling, tugging what more can I say. The saving grace? My pink swim cap. Why you ask? It's pink. It was the source of my power on the swim. The bike went without any catastrophic event other than I almost ate it when I clipped out. The run. PAINFUL. I hate running to begin with so it didn't really stand a chance. But then I finished and it was great and I loved it. So there it is folks. The end.
Triathaletes- hmm I think I like the sound of that
The oh so painful run
Nice bum, where ya from?
4 comments:
Look at you! You're a rockstar! Congrats girl!
xox
I am busting a gut, I am sooooo proud of you!!!
You rock! you superstar, you! All I did that day was a 5 1/2 mile run for my marathon, and I thought THAT sucked hard! So Proud!
Hey, Steph! I just found your blog and I'm so excited! Congratulations on being a triathlete! :) That's awesome!!
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