Today was an exciting day in our household. Jamahl and Sidney did their first triathlon. It seemed like a crazy idea, but it was super fun! Jamahl has been interested in doing in for a few months now so when I was registering him, I asked Sidney if she wanted to give it a try and she was ALL over that idea! McKenzy and Abby were very quick to say that they would just watch and God bless Keyan, she would have totally done it if her little body would allow her to. Anyways, early this morning, Paul took the two athletes and headed out to rack their bikes and get their transition areas all set! The rest of us followed in short time to get good viewing areas.
Sidney had to swim 25 yards, than bike .5 miles and finish by running .25 miles. Jamahl’s age group swam 50 yards, biked a mile and ran a half mile. That doesn’t sound too bad until you are doing it all one right after the other! Sidney’s age group went first and she was just finishing when Jamahl started his swim. Paul, my parents, and I all got quite a work-out ourselves running from one event to the other, keeping track of the other girls and running thru the camp pushing Keyan in her wheelchair…all while cheering the two kids on! It was so much fun!
The course got a little confusing and was somewhat overwhelming to Sidney at one point so when she started to run, she looked straight ahead, saw this very long path ahead of her, looked to her right and decided that she would just duck under a few course markers and create her own short cut. It was so cute! She later told Poppie that her run was kinda’ short, and she could have gone a lot further! Out of the mouths of babes! Jamahl of course got lots of comments on his flip turn in the pool and enjoyed every minute of all three events. He was such a great big brother…helping Sidney stretch out, letting her tag along with he and his friends after the race, and telling her what a great job she did.
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The camp ground where the triathlon was held is beautiful, the weather was absolutely perfect, we spent the morning together as a family involved in a new activity, surrounded by friends and family…no matter that the times got all messed up, or it took forever to give out the ribbons…it doesn’t get any better than that! Now if we can convince the other two girls to participate next year and figure out a way for Keyan to race too…it will be all good!
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How awesome! I bet we could talk Julia into doing it next year too.
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