We competed in our first olympic traithlon on 5 September 2011, in Austin Texas. It involves a 1500 meter swim on Lady Bird Lake, a 40K or 25 mile bike ride around the state capital building and parks, and a 10K or 6 mile run through the parks. It was very intimidating seeing all these triathletes with muscles and fast looking bikes, while Bryan's running around in his Army gym shorts and I'm in a little girl swimsuit. But looks can be deceiving:)
Here's Bryan coming out of the lake. All his pictures were awesome. He is super photogenic when it comes to races. He was the second group to start the race, while I was the last (1 hour later!).
See the capital building in the background? The audience was fun to see too. We had people dressed up as tacos, watermelons, summer Santa Clause, and penguins. Keep Austin Weird.
Now this is my favorite! Bryan has his mouth open either trying to catch his breath or cheering because he is about to cross the finish line. Love it!
Me and my little girl swimsuit. Glad I had a matching swim cap. The water was super warm, so it wasn't a wetsuit legal race. I kicked Bryan's trash by 3 minutes on the swim, but he kicked my trash in the other 2 events.
I was so glad to be done. I was sick all the week before the race and was working night shift and had a mountain bike. I know, I know. Excuses. Excuses. The run about killed me though. Bryan was kind enough to run with me for 4 miles. My goal time was between 3 and 3:30 hours. I got 3:25 baby! My next goal will be under 3:15. Bryan did amazing as usual, 2:40. Thats probably why he had his mouth open gasping for air at the finish line:) Anyways, it was really fun. We will definately be doing more of those.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Austin 2011 Olympic Triathlon
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The pictures are just a touch blurry, maybe these are just two pictures of swimsuit models for abercrombie and fitch that you put in here and claimed they are you?
thats a good idea brandon, we should do that. The race was lots of fun!! I highly recommend olympic triathalons, lots of fit people and good attitudes-or maybe we were just in Austin? I just need to cut 5 min off each event and I will almost give one or two people some competition.
Way to go!! You guys could be on the cover of Tri Magazine with those pictures! I have yet to do an olympic distance tri. Maybe next year.
You guys are awesome! I love the picture of Bry with his mouth open as well-a familiar look!
WOW! You guys are hard core! Amazing! Well done.
It's so cute and fun that you guys do these races together. Ryan and I have down 5ks together before. I would love to try a triathlon some day but first I have to figure out how to swim more than 1 lap! I hope you are doing well!
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