First Triathlon-DONE!

Hello followers- I am happy to report that all the anxiety and nerves are over. On Sunday I completed my first sprint distance triathlon in one hour 30 minutes to be exact.

The experience was great aside from the swim. My swim cap came off and I lost probabally about 5 minutes from this. I was too afraid to let go of the cap or stuff it into my wetsuit, as I thought that I could have gotten disqualified. So swimming or trying to swim the crawl was so very difficult!

Mr. P is threatening to shave me head, and I am frantically searching the internet to see if a less drastic solution exists-surely I can not be the only one! It's too bad that they force you to wear the event swim caps which are cheapy cheapy given the hundred's of people they have to give them out to. On this race, I tried wearing my own cap underneath, and I even had my hair in a tight French braid. Geez!

In the end, I must say that it was pretty awe inspiring to witness the first wave of swimmers. It was really a moment that nearly brought tears to my eyes as I reflect back 8 months ago when I was first learning the front crawl! Blood, sweat and tears really does pay off! This is something I hope my children will learn from me-Self-discipline-If they can get it, it will reap benefits for them in whatever becomes their destiny!

Yesterday was a recovery day and Ms. L was again working on my butt (still hurts and I have the half marathon on Sunday)-no more rest as I have a wicked workout planned today. An OWS with Mr. P -I know this is NOT going to be easy!