Wednesday, March 04, 2009



This year I did the Weetbix Triathlon. It is one of the largest kids' triathlons in the world. When I first got there I was not afraid. I saw all the other kids and I thought this is going to be so fun. There might be bad parts, but usually when I do something like this I have a whole lot of fun.





When I put my bike in there I thought I might never find it. We put a purple towel over my bike to help me find it, but I thought other people might have a purple towel also. There were a lot of bikes.





After I had finished swimming, I ran right to my bike and found it right away. I had to take off my swim cap, I had to put on my shirt and shoes and stuff like that. And then I started biking. I was quite fast. I passed like 5 people at the beginning, but once we went around one of the corners a kid smacked into me and I fell off my bike. I got right back on and started biking again. And I passed some more people. When I got back to the bike area I put my bike back in its spot and right away I started running.






At the beginning I passed a few kids and then at the end Dean was telling me to use my last burst of energy. I used it wisely when I passed a couple at the end, one of which I knew. That's Rylee in the picture, and me. I had a whole lot of fun I got a shiny gold medal and I want to do it again next year. P.S. I didn't win anything. Except the medal. And a shirt. And a swimcap. But everybody got that. By Andrew.


7 comments:

erin said...

Way to go, Andrew! A true triathlete in training!

Anonymous said...

wow thats realy cool! what was the age limit? but how many miles did you run and how far did you swim and bike?


seb

Andrew said...

Hi Seb, age limit was 15. The run was 1.5 km the bike was 4.5 km and the swim was 100m in the ocean. The older kids go twice as far. You would have fun doing it.

Sue K said...

Did you like doing the triatholong?
Aunt Sue :-)

Anonymous said...

Way to go, Dean. Some day I may learn but today was not that day...please see that I left a comment to an earlier post in January...i've never left a comment on a blog before AND i'm a little nuts...ask your mom and dad

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Anonymous said...

Way to go Andrew!! You'll be training for the iron man in no time.