The triathlon

Sept 22^nd arrived and as probably expected, we failed at having a consistent training.  Seriously, I need to take these things more serious!  We biked and swam and ran two weeks prior to the event, but as we all know that wasn’t enough!  Well we arrived in Galveston, picked up our packets at moody gardens.  Stayed at a very cheap hotel because I didn’t want to get up at 3am and drive from Houston the day of the race.  Greg didn’t seem too nervous about this, let’s be honest, I was terrified inside.  I think I was more terrified about Greg participating in the event and myself going through the race.  I was scared he would hate it, I was scared he would collapse (not that he wasn’t ready, I was just scared) and I was scared he would get a flat in the middle of the race.  Well none of the above happened, so it was a blessed day.  They canceled the swim part to our surprise, because it was very windy out there and for safety reasons they decided it was safer to just ran and bike.  The running part was good (5K) and the biking was also kind of good (12 miles), turns out I was flying at 20mph on the first 3 miles and then I was barely making it at 6 mph on the second half of the course.  It was so windy that it was hard to move.

I saw Greg on the run course, I was a bit close but I sped up to try to catch him.  Figures, he had the same idea and sped up so I wouldn’t catch him.  I finished the race, then Greg said: I went the wrong way! Hahahaha.  Well I wasn’t sure how you could miss the HUGE arch at the end of the race.  There were two courses, the people doing the olympic distance had to do another lap, so Greg went on the wrong course.  He went back to the course and ran through the arch to finish his time chip.  So his racing time wasn’t very accurate at all.

It was very fun to race together, I think we both really enjoyed it. There goes for the memories.  Maybe in the future we will do another triathlon together.