Scofield Triathlon, OR why I am a bad wife...

Well, it has taken me FOREVER to write this post for some reason. Maybe it's because I feel guilty for running off to Scofield to do a race...on Nate's birthday...without him...and I may or may not have left the kids at home with him as well. I know. Despicable! BUT before you judge me too harshly just know that we were all going to go up there and camp, but Nate decided to be a good student and stay home to go to his Saturday morning class instead. Oh, and he found a baby sitter for the boys for me so I can go and torture myself. Wow. I really AM a bad wife!

Anyway, I might as well do a little race report here. I did my very first Olympic tri. For those of you that don't know it goes a little something like this:

1.5 K swim

40K bike

10K run

It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of hard WORK. I had three really important goals for this race. They were pretty lofty, but because I am super awesome I nailed all three:

1. finish the race (I know amazing, right?)

2. Don't fall off my bike (you would be surprised at how many times I have done this...at stop lights)

3. Beat Sarah. Now this WOULD be a lofty goal if we were doing the same race, but she was doing a much harder and longer distance, so I thought I had a chance. We actually ended up crossing paths quite a bit, and after I was done with my race I hopped back on my bike to find her and cheer her on for the run. She didn't need too much cheering though because she was like 10 minutes ahead of the 2nd place girl. She's an animal!

This picture is the main reason I was worried about falling, you can't really tell, but the bike mount and dismount is on a HUGE hill, and I am not so great and clipping in fast, so biffing it in front of everyone was a very real concern. Fortunately, I left my clumsy self behind in transition when I fell over trying to get my wetsuit off fast. Yeah. I am TOTALLY a triathlete.

My big butt on the run! (bike shorts really don't hide much...) The run was the worst part of this whole thing because it was on the highway black top, so super hot, noisy, and not to mention I was already exhausted. My run time was slower than slow, but it was a great experience. It really made me glad that I decided not to do a half ironman this year (I was really thinking about it...idiot!).

Look closely because I'm crossing the finish line somewhere in this picture! (Thanks for taking pics, Jen!)

Overall I felt pretty good about this race I actually got 2nd place in my age group, (which I wasn't expecting) and 12th place overall. I think there were 40 women or so. I discovered that when you do a longer race like this there are a lot of ladies with more experience, so I didn't do as well as I have in the past, but I was very happy. OH, and I actually passed 2 people on the bike! I NEVER pass people on the bike. Woot!

Also, I got yelled at a couple of times. There was this girl I was with most of the race, and we kept passing each other back and forth. Of course, I think this is great. I love having someone to compete with! Well, I ended up getting a pretty good lead on her in the bike, but when I got back to transition I couldn't find my stuff! Some dirt bag put all of their stuff ON TOP of mine, so I ended up having like a 5 minute transition. Lame. Well this girl caught back up to me in the run and started YELLING at me about how she had already passed me several times, and was tired of me being in front of her. Friendly competition? No. I ended up gaining a couple of minutes on her in the run and after the race I said something like "great race!" and she gave me the dirty crusty. It's not like we were fighting for first place here lady, yikes!

Also, Sarah's biggest guy, Noah did the kid's triathlon! He was just about the youngest kiddo there and he did great! Way to go Noah!

I got to try out our new tent the night before with this lovely family! Jen and her kiddos came along for the ride. Her little girl, Rubie sounds like she has a little English accent. She kept saying; "look at me caw-lee!" So cute.

After I got home we hooked up with our great friends Logan and Sara Mann and went to Sara's family cabin up in Brighton. It was so awesome because it really was a cabin, like in the middle of the woods. We had to take a trail to get there. Now that's my kind of cabin! We absolutely love this couple too! They don't have kiddos yet, and for some reason they love to hang out with ours! Did I mention that Reid has a crush on Sara? Well he does. He loves to pick flowers for her on our way to church. We try not to take advantage of them too much by asking them to babysit for us....they're just so GOOD at it!