Yesterday Tige ran his second sprint triathlon, the Kokopelli at Sand Hollow. There were about 450 participants. Tige did a great job and I was so proud of him. She shaved 33 minutes off the time from his first triathlon (although the 1st one was a longer bike ride and the both the bike and run were full of hills). He said the entire swim was crazy with bodies on top of each other, kicking and trying to get position in the water. Someone actually grabbed his ankle and pulled him backwards. What I thought was the most amazing is that he ran his 5k portion faster than he's ever run a 5k before, and that was after swimming and biking. Guess that Garmin heart rate monitor he bought himself is paying off.
Good thing he waved or I'd have never found him.
Bike transition
Coming in on his blue bike
What a beautiful backdrop for a race
The final stretch of the run
A big thanks for my mom and dad for staying here Friday night and watching our kids Saturday morning and hauling them to Kason's soccer game so I could go to the triathlon and support Tige without my kids in tow. And since Tige was so fast, we even made it home for Kason's soccer game! My husband is awesome, what can I say?
A little video of the swim start. (And this was just one of 5 heats)
Good thing he waved or I'd have never found him.
Bike transition
Coming in on his blue bike 
The final stretch of the run
4 comments:
He puts us all to shame! What a superman!
Go Tige! What an inspiration!
Tige you ROCK! I seriously can't believe someone grabbed his ankle! What is up with that? Man my little Five mile I just did for the first time makes that seem wimpy compared to what he did.
good job Tige. We are v ery proud of you.
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