While you are sleeping...

I will be racing this morning.  I had to get up at 3:30  in the morning to head to Denver for my triathlon.

I am in no way prepared, which seems to be my motto for every race this year.

I do it for the fun of it, and this is a sprint, but the bike is only 10 miles, so I can't really compare it to the one where the bike was 12 miles--apples and oranges.

It's all good, I just like to have fun and the challenge.  I lost my tri shorts and Gunner and I had to race out to try and find another pair tonight.  Luckily REI had one pair left.  Whew.

I've laid out my supplies, walked through the transitions in my head so I can make sure that I have everything,

I am getting a pedicure and getting the ridiculous amount of dead skin taken off my feet after the tri and before we fly out.  A girl has to have priorities.

We have so much to do before we leave for Disney....tomorrow.  Help!

The morning of...

Arriving at the race site. The transition area opened at 5ish, so I wanted to make sure that I got there nice and early.

Body marking.

All marked up and almost ready to go. I wore a two piece tri suit, and let me tell you, these things are not forgiving! Maybe we shouldn't have eaten at PF Chang's for dinner!

The sun finally came up, it was beautiful!

The Day Before

After listening to the briefing, I think we were even more nervous.

Gunner and Junior getting my bike ready to be dropped off.

Junior making sure everything is "good to go".

The only time I would be relaxing at the swim finish.

I did it!

More details to come, but my friend T and I completed our first triathlon!!! It was an unbelievable experience, and there are tons of pictures on my facebook, but more to come here. My official time was 1:34.09!!! I set out to do it under two hours, and I did even better than that! Wait till my next one, lol!

Graduate school starts back up today, packers on Wednesday, movers on Thursday, and a million things in between.