Triathletes

Kira and I are officially triathletes. We competed in our first sprint triathlon last Saturday. It was a 200 yard swim, an 8 1/2 mile bike ride, and a 2 mile run. The race was up in Birmingham near Vulcan Park. We have been training for a couple months now, although we just barely bought our bikes a week before, so we didn't train on them much. Instead we just trained in the bike class at the gym for the bike part of the race.

We actually did pretty good for our first race, except on the biking, because our bikes were so bad for road racing. We just bought some cheap ones at a local sports store, and they slowed us down a lot. They were mountain bikes with mountain bike tires, while the best triathletes all had nice, expensive, aerodynamic road racing bikes.

We started swimming a couple months ago. It turns out that Kira is a natural swimmer. She is a faster swimmer than me. She swam the 200 yards in 4 minutes and I swam it in 5 minutes. I ran about 8 and 1/2 minute miles and Kira ran 9 minute miles.

We forgot to bring our camera to take pictures on the race, but we do have some pictures of us training on our bikes. There is a nice bike trail along the Black Warrior River here in Tuscaloosa just down the street from where we live.