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Sunday August 19th, Tiffany, Kristen, Rob, Liz and I will be competing in the “Great Buckeye Challenge“.

Previously I have joked with Tiffany about how she somehow manages to “trick” people into competing/training for endurance events. I like to call it “Team TMMDI” which stands for “Team Tiffany Made Me Do It”. We’ve even discussed getting t-shirts for this because the list of distinguished members keeps growing (I see this as a great thing and fun to joke about because she really is good at getting people more active and encouraging them in their training).

Anyway,
Kristen, Rob and Liz are entered in the Sprint distance (0.6mi swim, 12.4mi bike, 3.1mi run) and this will be their first triathlon…ever. It should be a great day (Temp should be around 80 with partly cloudy skies). Kudos to them for going for it in this race.

Tiffany and I will be doing the Half-Distance Tri (1.2mi swim, 56mi bike, and 13.1mi run…wow). This will be my first triathlon of any distance greater than the sprint, so I’m really excited and a little nervous. My training has been pretty good so I have nothing to fear in any of the events. I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict a finish time for myself….(drum roll please)…I’m going with 6hrs 5mins. There it is, i’ve said it, so now if I don’t get that time I’ll have to explain/justify why I didn’t. That’s all-right though, this being my first of this distance tri, I have no real benchmark to base any of this on and only arrived at this by figuring out what I think I’ll do in each event. So get ready for the post race report on Monday or Tuesday of next week.

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