I AM A TRIATHLETE!!!

I DID IT! I am an Iron Girl! 3:28:56...it ain't pretty but I finished! I did the .62 mile swim, 17.6 mile ride(hills abounding), 3.4 mile run!!! It has been so hard to stay focused these past months but the training worked. I got there at 5:00 am to get body marked, then set up transition, then I had to wait until 7:40 until my wave started. A lot can happen in your head in 2 hours. The fist wave started and finished in 16 minutes...WHAT HAVE I DONE, I CAN'T DO THIS! Kept going over and over again in my head. I can still go get my bike and we can go home, right??? I was near tears by the time my wave started. I kept looking at the swim course thinking NO WAY! This wasn't the hardest thing I had done in my life, that was earlier this year when I along with my mother decided to take my father off of life support, that's real, and this was for him, for life, for the gift of being alive. I got in the water and away I went, about 300 yards from the finish, I looked up and when Holy Sh*t, I'm almost there! A woman next to me asked, 'Are you OK?" Hell yeah, I'm almost done with this....33:17 finish time. The bike course was challenging but I had ridden the course before, so I knew what to expect, the hill from Hell...ain't no hill gonna beat me is all I said the whole way! Nope not this day. I rode rather conservatively on the bike, although I love roaring down those hills, they were still a little wet and I had seen some people go sliding away, not me, not this day.

Got off the bike, Are those my legs??? Funny they don't fell like mine? Him, well gotta run now. The course was hilly but shaded and populated with cheering fans, village people with Gatorade and the sound of a man announcing finishers....and that was going to be me, this is the day, MY DAY!

Me and my Iron Mate!!!