Saturday I will be doing another sprint triathlon.  Last year I participated in this one and it was my 2nd one to do ever!! It was a lot of fun and I can not wait for it again this year!!! It is going to be a great race at the front and I am so excited about all the competition and the whole race as a whole.  This triathlon is put on very well and is very organized and the numerous volunteers are awesome.  Best of all it is for the Children’s Miracle Network and even better it helps a local family of which are triathletes themselves!! It is a great triathlon and has continued to grow from when it was first put on three years ago.  It is going to be a lot of fun and I can’t wait!! Hopefully I’ll have some good news come Sunday!! : ) WISH ME LUCK!!

Last friday I ran a midnight 5k that our local runners club put on and I ran my personal best! I ran a 17:27 and my best before that was a 17:52 earlier this year so I was very satisfied with how much I have improved because that is what its all about! It was very different running at midnight but it was still fun, I had a great time! I have been resting this week taking a week off from last friday and I will get back to working out this friday 8-22-08.  Its been killing me to take off but i know my body needs it and that it will help me more than anything. I will have a couple of weekends off coming up which i will be really focusing on my fundraising!!! Its going pretty good so far.  My next triathlon will be on September 6th which will begin a very busy month for me but i can’t wait for it! I have some poeple coming after me and I can’t wait for a good race, it is going to be so much fun!!

Today wasn’t the easiest day as I woke up with a pretty good cough from strep throat and not feeling near as good as I was hoping.  All though I did not feel the greatest the day still went very well and I was able to pull through and race another great race! I Beat him again by only 22 seconds it was a very close and very exciting race with a few challenges here and there for sure.  Overall it was a lot of fun and I was very happy with my results and times.   Also my dad did very well too winning his age group and placing 4th overall with a time of 56:02!! His time last year as this race was 1:11:18 what an improvement he is doing so well!!!  Jason my brother-in-law did AWESOME as well finishing in under an hour at 59:48 getting 2nd in his age group and 9th overall.  It was a great day for all of us and most of all it was a lot of fun!!! Thats what it is all about is having fun!!!

This weekend I’ll be doing another sprint triathlon here in Amarillo.  The one that I won overall a few weeks ago was a lot of fun and I beat a guy from here that won all the ones around here last year so I hope that I can do the same this Saturday! It will be a very good race I know that because he’s going to be out to get me!  But I can do it I know I can.  Unfortunatley I haven’t been feeling that good so i went to my doctor today and I have strep throat but I got a really good shot and some antibiotics so I should be good for Saturday. Even if I’m not 100% I’ll be still give it my best!!  Hope it goes well this weekend I’m really excited about it!! Hopefully I’ll have good news on Sunday, take care everyone!

Well the sprint triathlon in Midland that I did yesterday went pretty well!  I got 2nd in my age group and 5th overall.  It was a very tight race for the overall places from 2nd to 5th, only 15 seconds separated these places.  My time was 1:00:52. The guy that won my age group time was 1:00:37 and he got 2nd overall so see there wasn’t much separating us. I hate getting beat by so little but it just makes me want to work harder so thats not a bad thing.  Overall it went really well and it was a lot of fun.  My dad did really well to getting 3rd in his age group and 10th overall, and my brother-in-law completed his first sprint triathlon and did very well.  He got 2nd in his age group and 22nd overall which is really good for his first one.  We all had a great time and are ready for this next weekend for another sprint here in Amarillo in August 9!! It is going to be a lot of fun i can’t wait!!!

Well I just got done with my training run and I am going to go swim here alittle later.  I felt really good running today it was awesome.  This weekend I am going to go do a sprint in Midland Texas. It is a 500 yd pool swim, 13.4 mile bike, and a 5k run.  I’ve never done this one so I am really excited about it and it looks like its going to be a really nice and fun race! Hopefully I will have good results and have a great time. My dad and brother-in-law are also doing it, so its going to be a lot of fun, I can’t wait!

The MS150 went really well this weekend and it was a lot of fun with the family and all the people and everything.  Even know its not really a race its a “Tour” the people at the front still see who can get there first.  The first day was 100 miles and the last 25 miles are some pretty good hills.  I came in first with a time of 3:39:17.  And today was 50 miles of HUGE HILLS over and over and it took me 2:16:36.  I also came in first today as well!! It was a lot of fun and my brother-in-law did it for his first time and did really well also.  It was a really fun weekend all the way around.

Well tomorrow at 7:00 am we will take off and head to Canadian, TX which is 100 miles from Amarillo!!  On Sunday we will ride from Canadian to Higgins, OK which is 50 miles of HILLS!! It is going to be a blast, and best of all it is for a great cause!! Last year was my first year to do the MS 150 and it was a really fun event and I can’t wait for tomorrow it is going to be a great ride!! Hopefully I get there in just a little over 4 hours.  Last year my time was 4:36:00 and I wasn’t in near the shape I am now so I am looking forward to what I can do, and hopefully the wind will be at our backs. Hope everyone has a great weekend! I’ll get back to tell everyone how the ride went beginning of next week. Take care!!

I won the sprint triathlon today at the Amarillo Town Club.  It is my first win overall and I am pretty excited about it!!!  It was a lot of fun today and there was a great turn out so I was really happy about that.  It’s crazy to see how much this sport is growing its a really neat thing to watch it grow even just since I started a little over a year ago.  My dad did awesome to! He won his age group and got 3rd overall!  and also my brother-in-law comleted his first triathlon too and he said that he really enjoyed I hope that he sticks with it!  But today went really well and I had a really good time so now I am just going to rest the rest of the day.  Next weekend I will be doing the MS150 which is a 150 mile bike ride in 2 days next Saturday and Sunday so I will be getting rested up for that.  Talk to everybody soon, take care.

This weekend I will be doing a sprint triathlon here in Amarillo that is set up by a local gym here called the Amarillo Town Club!  It is going to be a lot of fun and I am really excited about it.  It’s going to be a lot of fun to do “a lot” shorter one and really really enjoy not that I didn’t enjoy the half Ironman because I LOVED IT!!!  But it will just be nice to not have to do quite as much and my dad is going to be doing it so it will be good to get to do it with him!  He will do great this weekend his training and everything has been going really well and he’s right on my heels which is awesome!!  Also my brother-in-law is going to do the mini sprint that they are having and and it will be his first triathlon ever and I hope that he really enjoys it because I think he could be really great at triathlons, he has a lot of courage and strength in whatever he sets his mind to.  Hope everyone is doing great and having a great week I will be back in touch soon, take care!! “ONE GOAL, ONE VISION!”