Matt's sharpied leg number.
Friday night:- Walked to Seven Peaks and picked up our race packets, and had our numbers sharpied onto our shoulders and legs.
- Filled bicycle tires with air and lubed chains.
- Filled bicycle tires with air and lubed chains.
Jessica, ready to tri like a champ.
Saturday morning:6:15 am - ate banana and leftover muffins, donned swim suits, clean socks, and filled our water bottles.
7:00 am - rode bikes to Seven Peaks and left them in the transition area. Morning air was chillier than it has been all summer. Picked up our time-tracking anklets and anxiously peered around at the hardened athletes around us.
7:28 am - all the athletes lined up at the wrong starting line...
7:29 am - all the athletes moved to actual starting line ...
7:29.30 am - shuffling and sizing up the competition...
7:30 am - GO TIME !
Transition area for the bicycle leg.
Time stopped ... first we ran (5k around the Utah State Hospital campus ... no small feat considering the hills), then we biked (12 miles total ... the hills were worth it because we could come back down them) , then ... prepared for an icy plunge into the final swimming stage, but we were pleased to find a heated pool. Too cushy, some may say ... but we were plenty tired (and extremely elated) sloshing out of that thing 350 meters later.
All in all, we earned these awesome new T-shirts and enjoyed a perfect first triathlon experience. Definitely something we want to repeat ... if not tomorrow :)
Proof that we earned the t-shirt and the title of "triathletes", as well as photographic evidence that Matt has a farmer's tan. We wore those t-shirts the rest of the day...and will probably wear them again on Tuesday :)
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