papa's a sprinter. tri-style.

Back in the beginning of May Kevin participated in a sprint triathlon that they host annually in our city.  He hasn't done a triathlon since back in our Rexburg, Idaho days and that one was an Olympic length so he was excited to train for a faster paced race.
Our whole family loaded up and got there just after 6 am (early, early) and with the boys, clad in pj's in the double stroller and armed with lots of breakfast snacks I found a place to watch the first leg, the swimming portion of the race.

It was an insanely beautiful day (I love Texas springs) and the sun was shining...so brightly that you couldn't see who was coming out of the water. I realized that Kevin had gotten out just as the back of his head was disappearing.

I must admit that trying to keep two active boys happy while they are buckled in a non-moving stroller is tricky business and even all the food I brought got old pretty quickly. Luckily we had to move around quite a bit to find a place to see Papa start and finish the run. (we'd already missed his transition to the bike)

I did finally find a way to get to the finish line that was wide enough for a double wide and made it just in time to see Papa start the run portion of the race. Then we watched all the professional athletes finish the race as we waited. The boys were kind of out of control at this point but man were they excited to see their Papa cross the finish line!

starting the run portion.

just after crossing the finish line.

Once he was with us again they were, of course, completely happy. (But they are both Papa's boys and two on two goes much more smoothly too)

Kevin did really well, built for speed that one.  He finished within his goal time and some of his paces were much better than he'd anticipated so it was a great success.  I'm hoping that we'll both be doing it next year, until then I've really got to brush up on some swim strokes and cycling. :)