Triathlon 2011

It's coming...way too fast....Pittsburgh Triathlon 2011...and  we already invested way too much money in it to back out of it now!! We're still not sure how April came along so quickly and we honestly thought there were 4 months between May and August for training. We really thought 13 months existed in 2011 for some reason. We freaked out for just a minute this week when our triathlon training guide read 16 weeks when we were just 14 away from race day.


I'm not gonna lie...I'm scared silly about this one (probably way more scared than the marathon), but if running the Chicago marathon in 2009 taught me anything--it was that I'm capable of just about anything I set my mind to. 


I don't know how to swim. I really don't & Joel says he knows how to swim and he's better than me, but really, old ladies lap us in the pool without a problem. Our bikes are crappy and we don't plan on replacing them anytime soon.

We have a baby. I own a company and Joel is in ministry. We don't own a jogging stroller or a raft or a bike seat for our baby. We do not even have a sitter for our kid. We really have no idea how we're going to accomplish this race or even train for it, but we will. Somehow in some miraculous way, we'll cross that finish line and we'll be thrilled just for finishing.


On July 31st, we'll be running 6.2 miles, swimming 1 mile, & biking 30 miles. I'll probably be the girl doing the doggy paddle in the river on race day while everyone in the crowd laughs at me, but you can bet that I'll be finishing the race, even if it's last place because I'm all about the journey that will bring me to the finish line that the time that the clock will read. 


Pittsburgh triathlon 2011, we're totally not ready for you, but totally excited for the challenges you will bring to us and lessons you will teach us this summer!