We made it!!

For those of you (all two of you!!) who have been checking numerous times for results of last Saturday's triathlon, here they are. We were both fairly pleased with our results. There weren't too many competitors in the intermediate length race. Most opted for the sprint distance. Mike finished 3rd in his age category. I was the second overall female to finish and first in my age category. I was also the only female in my age category!!

Friday evening we went out to Lake Las Vegas to pick up our race packets and review the course. As we went down to the swim start area, a resort employee told us the beach was closed and we weren't allowed to enter since the water was "contaminated." Very reassuring! The water was quite green, but we're both still alive and well. Don't know what that contamination was all about.

The morning of the race was very warm. I'm sure it was over 100 degrees by 11:00 am when we finished. The run was absolute torture- 6 miles up and down hills across a dirt road in the middle of the desert with no wind and the sun beating down. Never mind that we had just swam near a mile (in contaminated water!!) and biked around 26 miles on a very hilly course! It felt very good to be done!

Here we are in our spandex glory showing off our tough looking body markings (our race numbers) on our arms. FYI- don't compete in a triathlon if you don't want to share your age. They marked our ages on our right calves!

There should be some professional photos available soon, and I will try to post a link.

As a side note, they also had a category for the fastest husband/wife combined times. We didn't realize that you had to sign up separately to be included for this category, but we would have placed 1st for the intermediate length race!!