The Triathlon and The Soccer Game

Yesterday our office participated in an charity triathlon. The charity is called Share a Smile. Dr. Jenson did a full tri, and I was part of a team. I did the swimming and then Janette that does our marketing/promtional stuff for our office did the run, and her husband Steve did the bike. The swim was a 1/4 mile, or 8 laps of the pool. We didn't really put our team together until about 2-3 weeks before the event, so I didn't have much time to train. And obviously I'm not in the best of shape right now. I used to be on the swim team as a kid, so I didn't think that it was going to be very hard. The first time I went to swim laps proved me wrong, but I ended up doing the swim a lot faster than my original goal. We haven't gotten the offical times yet, but before the race I was swimming it in about 12 minutes. (UPDATE: Official time 12 min 36 seconds for my swim and our team finished 4th with a time of 1 hour and 20 minutes. I think we did great for throwing it together pretty much last minute.)The swim was set up as a serpentine swim. That means that you swim down in back in one lane and then move to the next lane. It was a pretty good set up. That way you started at one end of the pool and exited at the other end. They started a new swimmer every 15 seconds, so the only bad thing is that sometimes you got stuck behind some of the slower swimmers that thought they were faster than they really were. So I think my time was slowed down a bit, but I was able to pass about 3 or 4 swimmers, so that felt good. Here I am waiting for this girl that would not move. I passed her plus the girl that is just ahead of her in the picture. I had already passed the guy that is behind me, but he caught back up since the other girls was so slow.

At the end when I was getting out I kinda had a little incident. You see in this picture where I am standing? Well when I got out I turned to the side of the pool to start running toward the bike area and fell back into the pool between the lane and the side of the pool. Woops :) A little embarrassing, but I quickly climbed out, up the stairs this time, and got over to the biking area and passed the timing chip onto Steve.

Our team number was 88. They wrote it in black magic marker on my left arm, left calf, and right thigh. I have scrubbed and scrubbed and it's not coming off. I had a lady at church today asked me if I knew that I had an 08 on my arm. I told her actually it's an 88, and yes I did know and I have 2 other ones on my legs. Um would I really not know that that written on my arm???

This is a picture of all of us that competed. Dr. Jenson, Steve and Janette Thompson, and Me. Thanks to Michelle for coming to support me and take pictures to prove that I actually did it and finished. It was a lot of fun. I have decided that I need something like this to motivate me to go exercise. So I'm thinking about entering a tri in Orem at the beginning of November is anyone is interested in doing it with me? It would be nice to have someone to train with. Anyone? Anyone???

After the race I hurried home because Mikkele had her first soccer game. (That's why Jeremy and the kids didn't come and watch the race.) They won 5-0. She has games every Wednesday and Saturday now until October 1st. So we will be staying busy for sure.

Isn't she the cutest little soccer player?

One of the other mom's called it "magnet ball" instead of soccer. I think this really fits. It's usually just a clumping of girls trying to all go for the ball at once. She seems to have a good coach that is really trying to teach the girls the rules and the different positions and what each position's job is in the game. It mostly goes in one ear and out the other and goes back to the whole magnet ball thing. I hope that she will learn a lot more this year, and continue to grow as a player.