When we got to the pool mom had to help us get our floaties on our arms. We were the only ones who had these but it was OK. We just figured all the other kids who needed them were too scared to do the race. We figured DFL is better than DNS so we weren't nervous.

It was a little confusing trying to figure out where to go. We had to walk to the other side of the pool bu ourselves and there weren't enough volunteers to tell us where to go. We just held hands and stuck together until someone finally told us what to do. We got lanes right next to each other.

Someone annouonced for the boys to get in the water. But he said. "All males in the water" We think some kids might not have been as smart as we were because lots of girls got in and then lots of boys just started swimming before he said go. Oh well, we waited until he told girls to get in. The water was pretty cold. Colder than my grandfather's condo pool - they never let it get below 90.

We're pretty proud of our swim times. Grace even beat the girl next to her who had NO floaties - so they didn't slow us down too much! Even though we needed the floaties the swim was our favorite part of the race.

When we got out we had to walk to T1 with mom so she could help us with our socks and shoes.

Learn how to swim.

Mom had to help us in T1. It was pretty slow because she could only help one of us at a time. And Grace decided to take off her bathing suit before she remembered she was supposed to put her clothes on OVER the suit. She did get her clothes and helmet on all by herself though.

Learn to put on my shoes

The bike was tough - we didn't think it would be so far, but we did it. We had a little stop in the middle. The finish line for the runners was half way around our loop. Some kids were already finishing the race so there were lots of people in our way by the finish line. We didn't have room to go by and didn't really know what we were doing. So we stopped since everyone else was stopped. Nobody told us what to do so we stayed there for a minute. We found out later that mom was screaming our names across the grass, but she couldn't get to us because there was a little creek in the middle. Finally some parents saw us and told us we still had 1/2 way to go.

We pedaled as fast as we could. I don't think we had ever hit speeds like this before! It was tough on our legs, I think mom needs to raise our seats a little.

When we cam einto T2 there were volunteers to help us get our helmets off and they took our bikes for us. We felt like real pros.

Ditch the training wheels.

When we came into T2 there were volunteers to help us get our helmets off and they took our bikes for us. We felt like real pros.

Nothing - we liked the help

This was fun. When Grace got off her bike and mom yelled, "Run to the finish" she tried to cut right across the grass in the middle. Then someone told her she had to stay on the road so she came back. Then Katie took off to try to catch up with Grace. About 50 yards from the finish Grace's skirt started to fall down. Luckily her grandmother was right there to help her. She told her to wait up for Katie. They ran together again until Grace sprinted into the finish to end up just a few yards ahead of her sister.

Someone gave us each a medal and a water. We needed that - we were breathing really heavy by now and with no bottle cages on the bikes we were really thirsty.

Not wait for my sister.

We were so tired we could barely make it back to the car. We had our parents lug our gear for us then we mellowed out on the way home and listened to some Willy Wonka on the IPod.


Short legs


This race was the best. We don't have anything to compare it to but we're pretty sure we're right. You can as our parents, we know everything.