Biathlon Update: I didn't poop my pants!

Okay, for realz, I had two main fears going into the biathlon this morning: (1) I'd realize I was weaker than weak and not be able to finish either event and (2) That I'd have to go #2. Not the coolest thing to happen in the middle of 5 miles of running. I was good! Haha.

Apparently a biathlon is technically an archery event or something? But this was 5 miles of running and 16.5 miles of biking. Craig, a buddy from work, convinced me to do it. It was in Wellsville, Utah which is just outside the canyon on our side. I only had 2 weeks to train and I hadn't actually just gone for a run in probably over a year. A little soccer here and there, but not recently. I had actually not quite gotten to 5 miles in my workouts (again, way out of shape) so today was the first day to see what it felt like. It felt good! My main goal was to not get distracted by the other runners and just run at my own pace, and also I wanted to do it in around 45 minutes. Well I did it in 43 and felt pretty strong the whole time. I didn't place amazingly but that's okay.

Right after the run we got on our bikes to ride out 8-sh miles and back. Now, I had been training for the running part, assuming that the biking wouldn't be TOO bad, and I'd heard it was mostly flat. WELL there were a few HILLS! Yikes. There were definitely some "oh no" 's and "WHAT the" 's going through my head as I saw the worst one coming closer. I was considering wimping out and I just went for it. I did okay. My legs were troopers :) It wasn't really a burning pain, more of this weird feeling like a cramp mixed with that falling asleep feeling. I just got kinda bored and started thinking of what food I was gonna get after (haha) but I made it to the end!

These pictures are of me at the last stretch that Crystal, Craig's wife took. I'm not too cute on a bike. Oh, btw, I was one of maybe 5 people with mountain bikes, everyone else had road bikes, and a couple had those crazy hard core ones where the back wheel is all solid. Weird.





Overall the whole thing went great. When I was done my legs were all jelly-ish but not too sore (yet?) and I could breath fine. At least the altitude didn't get to me. I wasn't prepared for the biking but it was a great course to ride. Beautiful weather and farms, rivers, trees. I saw a baby horse and said hi to a couple doggies. hehehe I'm such a dork.

Me after the race.

Craig's baby Logan. This kid is a butterball! Adorable.


Showing off our rock-hard muscles after the whole thing. By the way Craig finished waaaay ahead of me. He did great. One of his boys asked if I was a winner and I said, "almost!" Yeah, not even close.