casa grande triathlon

Steven decided to sit this one out but brought all the kids to cheer me on. We woke up at 5am, it was that fun roadtrip kind of feel waking up all the kids. There were suprisingly alot of people there! The Payson tri was WAY smaller in comparison. I did this with my friend Nicole and a few other people in my ward were there. My brother Sione did the Dualthon (run bike run) since there were no more spots available for the tRi. The swim part was weird, people like 'snaked" through all the lanes, it was kind of good cause you felt like you had to keep up. But sometimes awkward to pass people, but good cause it kind of took my mind off how much more swimming there was to go. But bad because I gulped in a ton of water on my last 2 laps.

In a nutshell: good.akward.good. bad.

I was so disoriented getting out of the pool, and I was very aware of it, cause the audience was right there in front of me. My arm muscles were like jello trying to get out and I felt like someone should've yelled this.

"Summon the Kraken!"

Anyways, once I got to the bikes, I see that my lovely tire decided to go flat on me. It's one of those tires that needs an adapter for the pump, so I was looking everywhere for someone who had a pump with the tiny hole. I finally found one, pumped it up then wheeled it out..well I guess I did it poorly because before I could even get on my bike the tire was flat again. So I went back and pumped it up again really good. I was so nervous the whole time biking thinking the tire was gonna go flat, so it made me go as fast as I could the whole time just trying to get it over with before it did. Luckily it never did! The biking was so much better this time. No hills had something to do with it. When I was riding in I saw Steven driving and he was coming to make sure I hadnt gone flat. When I was done with the biking I thought I'm good I can so run right now. Then I got off my bike and my legs felt otherwise. They were like Insanely STIFF. Last time they werent this bad. Weird, too because the Payson biking was extremely difficult, but my legs felt okay when I was running. I just couldnt seem to get my legs to unstiffen the whole time. It felt like my legs wouldnt bend and I was going nowhere. I kinda walked/jogged the whole time. I havent really been running as much as I did before the Payson one. Not that I got a good time in Payson, but it felt easier to jog than today. When I was running to the finish, Steven yelled "Good job, and I didnt lose Jasper at all" I guess he lost him for a while and had to have the guy announce it. I'm glad I missed that!

Overall I had so much fun again. I still feel like i wasnt ready or any better than the last one. But it's fun to do something challenging. And it's fun to get a shirt! Especially a long sleeved one! :) Next time though I want to be way more prepared and feel like I did my best. And no more mountain bikes..I'm tired of you dumb roadies passing me! 'look at my tires, they're so skiNNy'