Gold Nugget Triathlon

Sarah and I just got back from a potluck/rewards ceremony for the Gold Nugget Triathlon where I got a big surprise. Big surprise!! I placed 5th in my age group, that would be the 30-34 group and 55th overall!!!! I couldn't believe it. I was hoping to make the top 100, I just didn't expect to be that high. Tomorrow I'm going road bike shopping!!! Sarah and I are doing another triathlon in June, it's addicting! Sarah did awesome and it was so cool to be able to do it with her. She was 13th in her age group (20-24, so young) and 281 overall!!! (There were 1200 entrants total). She rocks and had a fantastic swim time of 6:35, totally killing me... You go girl! I'm hoping to glean some swimming tips while she's here, primarily on those darn flip turns. I like to shoot myself to the bottom of the pool after flipping which is painful in the shallow end and life threatening in the deep end as I usually run out of air before surfacing like a sub. Sarah finds it quite amusing...