Right before school ended me and these three friends Ally, Loren and Natalie went on a massive bike ride, and when we got back we made a list of things that we were going to do this summer. One of them was do a triathlon. Then on Thursday Natalie brought a paper to track that advertised a summer triathlon. It only cost 10 dollars, which was way cheaper than any of the others we had seen. It was on base, but Natalie's dad works for the military, so we could do it. We had to swim 300 meters, Bike 12 miles, and run a 5k (3.2 miles). And that didn't sound too hard at all, so we decided to do it. Actually we were indesive about it until about 11:30 pm on Firday night, then we decided to just to it! It was pretty much the funnest thing I have ever done!

This is us before the swimming part. This was the hardest for me because I haven't even been in a pool since spring break and I haven't actually swam laps since swimming lessons about 3 or 4 years ago.

But, I don't think 300 meters is that far, because somehow I did it. This is a picture of me finishing. It was a 50 meter pool so we had to do six laps. It was pretty fun. After that we didn't take any more pictures of us in the actual race, but we took pictures of us after, and before it.

This is a picture of us next to our bikes before the race. It was the most exhillerating thing I have ever done to jump out of the water, run to my bike and just hop on and start riding! It was so cool! At first the biking was so easy, but then we went up this super long hill, and that was hard!! The whole time up the hill I was just longing to get to the running part, because at the moment I thought it would be so much easier, but in reality, it wasn't. It was still pretty hard. It was hard because the entire run was in the sun. No shade at all! It was a joke! And it was so weird to hop off your bike, and just start running. Weirdest thing ever! My muscles just wouldn't move! It was a weird feeling.

Then after we went to Jamba juice and got pick stars (the best flavor ever!) And after that we went to Great Harvest and they gave us free bread and a free loaf of bread, and a free jar of honey! It was so funny because they aren't supposed to even give out free bread, but for some reason they had the urge to give us lots of free stuff. It was so funny! I am convinced that the only reason that they gave us all of this free stuff is because we looked horrible!!!!! None of us had even taken off our swimsuits, or brushed our hair, or even put it in a new pony tail, or anything. It was the funnest thing I have ever done! We are going to do a real one at the end of the summer that will be super hard!! I am so excited!!