Saturday, June 7, 2008

I AM A TRIATHELETE!

Last summer I did my first sprint triatholon it was alot of fun and so I resolved this summer to do a few more. I decided to try and run an olympic length triatholon (.9 mile swim, 27 mile bike ride, 6.2 mile run) that was this Saturday. I have been training hard since December forcing myself to run which initially was pretty hard.

As of Wednesday of the week before they were predicting the hottest day of the year which I was NOT looking forward to. Unlike my crazy uncle Charlie I have no desire to race in 90 degree weather with 100% humidity.


The weather ended up being much cooler thankfully and the day went wonderful. My original goal was to finish in under 4 hours. I ended up finishing in close to 3 hours 15 min! That being said they did shorten the swim course because of terrible fog and the fear of losing swimmers.



The night before trying on the sexy wetsuit. The water temp in the lake was only 58 degrees...took your breath away.



Getting ready for the swim in my stylish pink swim cap.

My heat for swimming as you can see it was very foggy.

Starting my bike...I am in the blue top.




Starting my run


This picture is at the finish line. We are showing off our numbers. For those of you who have never been to a triatholon before they write all over you with permanent markers. Including your legs, arms and hands. The vice principal at Andy's school ran the triathalon as well. Also check out the lemon fanta in my hands. I still have a few leftover from Europe last summer that I save for my races. They are my motivation.

After the race we were covered in gatorade and so we jumped back in the amazingly cold water to rinse off.

The fans were a little strange. The name of the triathalon was the mooseman...hence the antlers.

Andy was wonderful he carb loaded with me for two days before. He cooked spaghetti and woke up at 545 to go with me to the race. Not only that but he looks hot in horns. What a wonderful husband.

Casa Bonita

Anyone who watches South Park regularly will remember the episode when Cartman goes to Casa Bonita. In all my time in Denver I had never actually been to the restaurant, which is the largest resaurant under one roof in the world.
The restaurant food is only so so but the atmosphere is fun. There are cliff divers and an arcade inside.

Waiting in line for the food. They had all you can eat sopapillas for desert.
Andy with our tickets from Skee Ball
Thank you to Andy's parents for hosting us while we were in Colorado it was a wonderful trip. Oh and thanks to Brea for driving us around on the last day.

Colorado over Memorial Day

Andy and I traveled to Colorado for memorial day weekend. Andy's little sister Liz graduated from Columbine High School and is starting at CSU in the fall...we could not be more proud! Not to mention now we have another excuse to go to Ram football games.


With Liz...doesn't she look amazing.
While we were in Colorado we also had the chance to catch up with all our friends and family including Breanna who recently moved to Colorado Springs.

Puppy love

More pictures of my beautiful babies



For Jill and Paul

Our friends Paul and Jill moved to Oregon last summer. Before the moved they introduced us to Pat and Sara who have a darling little girl Elizabeth. We recently had them over for a BBQ and thought I would upload a picture so the could see how big she is now.

My dog Champ was very uncertain of what to think of a mobile two legged mini human. He would bark at her, as he does everything when he wants to instigate play, and she would bark back.

A little white trash

Maya's New Pool

Our house sits in a fairly rural area in New Hampshire. We own 3 acres of prime NH forest. My dogs think it is fantastic, lots of chasing squirrels and rolling in mud puddles to cool off. Hence the reason we bought the baby pool. Maya is a complete water dog and really enjoys laying in the pool when it is warm. It is worth having the unsightly thing just so I dont have to de mud the pups.

Catching up

Garden Projects
This winter was SO long...over 130 inches of snow. So starting in around February I started dreaming of all my flower beds and projects. So come the first of May I went shopping. Here is the plant load to start with. I ended up doing four major beds. One in full sun with warm colored plants, one in part shade with cool colors, one monochromatic bed with all purple flowers and a vegetable bed.

My dogs however are very unintrested in planting and spend all their time trying to get me to do something else. Including dropping frisbees on my flowers and sitting on top of the rocks in the garden.


Lastly Andy and I put in a walkway from our deck to the bluestone patios. I have lots more pictures to show but will wait until the beds are finished.