Just saying howdy and introducing myself.
I'm just getting myself all planned for the tri's and a 10K
(never done one of those before!
) - the Get In Gear race in April. The two tri's I'm doing
(sprint-tri's, by the way. I'm crazy, but not THAT crazy, like some of you amazing triathletes!! Ha!
) are the Chaska River City Day's Sprint in July and also the Young Life
(Castaway
) Sprint in Detroit Lakes in August. I'm also doing the swimming leg
(1/2 mile
) of the Lake Waconia Tri in June - my husband will bike it
(20miles
) and his 71 yr old father will run the 4 miles!! Fun! That one will be great since my husband doesn't exercise at all currently - so to get him to bike 20 miles for that race will be sweet!! Maybe it'll get him hooked like me!
I completed my first sprint tri last summer - the Freedom Tri in White Bear Lake last 4th of July. It was great. I never thought I'd ever be able to do a triathlon! And one of my many goals was to maybe - just maybe - inspire my husband to want to exercise and possibly to compete in a race of some sort. About three months after my tri last summer, he and his dad and step-mom and I were playing cards and he just blurted out "Hey - maybe the three of us should do a triathlon together. She can swim, Dad, you can run, I'll bike!" AMAZING!! So - his dad and I are holding him to it!!
(His dad is already a runner
)
Can't wait! Literally - a dream come true
(well - when it's been done, I guess! Ha!
).
So anyway - that's me. I'm pretty hooked on it. I'm also a Weight Watchers Lifetime Member
(I know there's a couple WW people that also do some tri's that I've seen here before - Hi Diana! Where have you been?
) and seriously - I lost 45 or so lbs and my whole life seemed to change! I'm so much more aware of how much/little I move my body and what I eat now - compared to a couple years ago! Without the help of my great family and WW, I doubt I'd be here telling you all about the triathlonS - multiple - that I'm signed up for this summer!
Whoooohooooooo!! LET'S DO IT!!!!
Feeling pretty pumped!!!!!!!