Happy Birthday Brett!

Today (April 30th) is our friend Brett's birthday. Right now he is "roughing it" somewhere in Mexico, so we thought we'd send him a little birthday greating! Be sure to go on his blog and send him a birthday hello!

!!!!!!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRETT!!!!!!!

official pics

Here is a link to the official triathlon pics... at least you know I wasn't lying when I said I rode my bike!! :-) It's not too exciting, but it is a pic of me, instead of a video!

brightroom event photography

Triathlon

THE FCA RELAY TEAM...

Last Sunday I was a part of a relay team that participated in a Triathlon. Ashley and Allie, from FCA at UCSB, needed a biker. Ashley was the swimmer and Allie (although she is recovering from knee surgery) was the runner. I haven't competed in a race in a really long time, and I had SO MUCH fun!

THE START OF THE RACE...

It was cool because we were the last heat, so as I was racing I could just look up and pick people off. My goal was not to be passed by any girls (although I doubt there were many women that started after me because our heat was the last one, and there weren't too many women bikers on the relay teams). However, I accomplished that goal anyhow :-)

THE BIKE COURSE...

Also, the course that we did is the course that Kirsten and I ride A LOT! It's our LOOP!!! I had the "home course" advantage. I knew where the technical parts of the course were, when to accelerate, when to surge, when to catch my breath, and when push myself. Despite the super strong winds that we had to ride against on the back side of the course (along Cathedral Oaks), I rode the fastest I've ever ridden (55 minutes... the fastest I'd done it before was 57 minutes). I think I had a lot of adrenaline in my system.

ALLIE AND ASHLEY PINNING ON THE RACE NUMBER...

Allie was suppsed to take a picture in transition, but once again my camera was in the record position. So now we have no pictures of me, just a little bit of video.... he he he.