My first Tri....Dualathalon!

Ok so first of all, the race weather gods hate me in 2008. We (my mom is here this weekend, more about that later) woke up to rain...big surprise! All my races in 2008 have not been good at all for wx conditions. I've gone through rain/mist, wind, extreme cold, sleet, and whatever else can be thrown at me. Well today it poured! We get the race site, its thunder like crazy. They ended up canceling the swim part due to all the run off and that being unhealthy and then the fact it was lightning and thundering like crazy. So it was now a 1 mile run, 10 mile bike, 3.1 mile run.

Not making excuses here, but the weather thinned out the less serious and sane athletes! Only the crazy and hardcore ones were left. I fall into the crazy category. The race began, about 50 of us, and I promptly found my place in last...where I comfortable stayed all race. :) The mile run is not my cup of tea, I can't run fast and I hate short distances, but oh well, not my choice. I did decent on the bike but the 3.1 miles left was really really hard. I had to walk/run it but oh well I did finish in 1:20! So that was fine by me. It was a really good time. All in all I am proud I did my first multi sport race and I'm crazy enough do attempt another one! At least the rain quit enough for the race and then started up again during the awards part.

The drive back to Champaign was interesting because I-57 had water running over it! So state patrol was letting cars go through one by one. It's a swamp around here and probably won't get much better.

Enjoy the pics!

On the way to the race..pretty shelf cloud!

Ooooooooohhh

The transition zone

Me just starting, not totally spent yet.

Coming back from the mile run

Mom's camera has an operator issue :) so she missed me on my bike., this was after the bike. I'm totally spent by this time.

DONE!

Me and my cool bike with a kick stand...heck yes.

Really?

Feel bad for those guys!