SWIM, BIKE, RUN--I love it!!Back in the day, my annual fitness activities included a marathon, a triathlon (olympic distance), half a dozen 5K's, and a few 10K's and half marathons, plus all the training. Easily 10-20 hours per week of training and racing every year for about five years. That was then.
This is now. 2010, at the beginning of the year, I decided on my fitness goal for the year: An olympic distance triathlon. That's it. Doesn't sound like a big thing when you consider what I did "back then" but folks, I was barely in maintenance mode when I set that goal. My dear friend Sharon ran my birthday 10K with me in February (I wasn't ready for another Birthday Half Marathon yet). I was doing itty bitty runs and trudging along through the winter months, but I had not been on the bike for about two years. Nor had I been swimming.
D fixed up my bike and I finally started going on rides--it felt spectacular! I kept thinking, "Why have I stayed away so long??" (Oh, yeah, I can't just jump on my road bike and leave my three kids to watch themselves...Details!). I needed to choose a race. I decided it had to be before D started residency because of that small detail about my kids not being able to watch themselves. I went back and forth between one in Daybreak (45 minutes away from our house) and one in Hyrum (30 minutes from D's parent's house).
Ugh, the agony of trying to juggle in my mind the details of traveling to and from the race with all my gear, managing sleeping arrangements (for me and my crew), finding someone to take care of my kids, and, of course, my cute little baby who I was still exclusively breastfeeding and who could not be separated from her Mami for more than an hour or two without some serious drama. Plus, those races are so expensive! And they start so early!!
And then I learned about Tera's Tri--the exclusive race that started right at my front door on the date and time I chose. Transition area at my house. Being able to use my own bathroom. What a dream race! I chose June 1, my sister's birthday. And I was off!
1 mile swim
25 mile bike
10K run
Jonny did part of the swim with me, I was on my own for the bike, and D did the run with me (while wonderful Karen watched our munchkins). Ah, the glory! To everyone's amazement, I ended up taking FIRST PLACE!! Melissa and Jonny met us at the end. What a race!
That's me holding my "Teraflex" keychain, ha ha.
I have also purchased myself some matching running clothes since Tera's Tri. Yay, me!
