I am competing in a triathlon at the end of the summer. Its an olympic distance one (1 mile swim, 25 mile bike, 6 mile run) which I haven't done in seven (yes you read that right-seven) years. I have been training 5-6 days a week for about a month now and hopefully, come August 21st, I will be ready.
This morning, Norwalk was having their Mossman Sprint Triathlon. I didn't sign up for it (it is a smaller race), but I thought it would be good to practice the swim in the open water with all those people. So I sort of "crashed" the race. My plan was to enter the water with everyone else, I just wouldn't continue on with the other two legs.
Felix and the kids came down as well. Unfortunately it meant getting everyone up at 5:30 am, but Lucas and Liliana were wide awake!
All ready to go....I didn't have a correct color swim cap for my age group(since I did not pay to enter the race). They are a little strict about that, since that is how the lifeguards can tell how you are doing in the water. For example, if you are in the first wave, and the last wave is passing you, the lifeguards might stick close by just in case. They had some extra caps at the starting line and so I just snagged one...now I really looked like I was part of the race.
The swim was great. It was half the distance I have been practicing (and will have to swim in August) but it is always good practice to swim amongst hundreds of people...you don't get that in a pool.
The kids were GREAT and so we went out to the diner for breakfast afterwards.
Curling up on the couch afterwards. We were all done and back by 8:30am....got a lot packed into an early morning.
No comments:
Post a Comment