Duathlon at Lowndes Lake

My friend Lindsey forwarded this email to me last month telling me to sign up for a Duathlon. It is a 4 mile run and a 13 mile bike ride. I was like yeah right, me run 4 miles! I can do the 13 mile ride only because I have been riding around perimeter road for the last 3 months. I knew I could run the 2 miles before the the bike ride, but wasn't sure about the 2 miles after. So, I ask Cecilia if she wanted to do it with me and she said "yes!" Cecilia asked Tara to join us as well and she agreed.

Well, the race started at 8:15 and we (Cecilia & I) finished at 9:53. I think Tara was 10 or 15 minutes ahead of us. I didn't finish off the last 2 miles all that great and I totally took a wrong turn on the last mile of my bike ride. So in all reality I finished last and probably should have been disqualified! But what the hell, I did it for fun and the exercise! My first 2 miles weren't bad considering all the hills, when I got going on the bike and started up my first hill it wasn't to bad. It was halfway through when I thought I was going to fall off and have to lay there for a while. On one hill we went down we got up to 34 miles an hour, so that kind of tells you how steep they got. When I got back from the bike ride, I totally talked myself in to walking, but ended up running half and walking the rest.

I am really proud of myself for even doing it!

Here we are after everything. Cecilia is on my right and Tara is on my left!

This is us getting ready before the event started
All of the runners

Cecilia and I taking off

Coming back from my bike ride

Crossing the finish line!

All in all, I had a really good time!