Plunge-N-Run

I'm a little behind so here we go...

Lake Havasu Plunge-N-Run

August 28, 2011

So I hitched a ride with Becca and her family to go to Lake Havasu for this race.  The purpose of this race was to help train for our upcoming triathlon in October.  This race was pretty difficult.  The lake swim was nice, but totally different than swimming in a pool and the run was a very difficult trail run, but it was tons of fun, especially doing it with great friends like Becca, Brooke, and Laurel.

The race:

1 mile swim

6.2 mile run

Big thanks to Aaron (Becca's hubby) for being the photographer.  He got a lot of great pictures.

This is before the race - left to right - Me, Brooke, two people I don't know, and Becca.

Ready, set, swim... We had to swim out to that bouey, then go right and pass two more boeys.  Then we would turn around and swim back. 

Brooke did awesome in the lake.  She's a fish.  She whooped us all in the lake with a swim time of around 40 minutes.

Here is me...I think I was the last person out of the lake.  It took me around 56 minutes to finish the swim portion.  I felt pretty good in the lake, I just couldn't swim straight.  I would be going and then I would look up and realize I was swimming out to the middle of the lake or straight towards the beach rather than to the next bouey.

I was so happy to be out of the water that I sprinted up the hill to the transition area.

Putting on my shoes.

Becca did amazing.  She was starting to get sick and she still kick pants!

Brooke looking good on the run.

Me & Laurel.

Ahhh...that water was refreshing.  Lake Havasu City in August is super hot!  Even with the early morning start time.

Becca finishing strong!

She took 1st in her division and 4th female overall.  She's the bomb!

Brooke took 3rd in the division and 6th female overall, which really isn't fair because Becca was in the same division and us and she's WAY younger and lighter! 

Me - still feeling good. 

Yeah, I'm done.  I took 4th in my division and 7th female overall. 

RESULTS

Swim:  56:25

Transition:  1:34

Run:  58:15

TOTAL TIME:  1:56:13

Overall:  18th out of 25

Female:  7th out of 10

Division (under 40):  4th out of 5   

Becca, Me, Brooke, and Laurel (Laurel took 1st place in her division)

Becca, Me, and Brooke

Super fun race!  Very challenging.  I definitelly would like doing it again.  I have lots of room to improve.

(in case I didn't make it clear, Brooke beat me in a race...I know crazy, but she is a really good swimmer and I'm a really bad swimmer, not that I'm making any excuses or anything...)

Crimson Knights Football

Tommy started playing football this year on his middle school team.  So far they have played four games and lost four games, but each week we are seeing tons of improvement.

He's one of the team captians.  Look at the size on the other team!!  The other team had at least 5 other guys as big as #23.  Trivium is a new school and they only have 6th & 7th graders this year and will add an additional grade each year.  However, they are playing against 6th, 7th, & 8th graders.  Those couple of years make a big difference in size.

Tommy on a bootleg run play during his 2nd game of the season.

Huddle up

Tommy getting instructions from his coach, Mr. Akins.  This guy is a very patient man.

Ready, set, hike...

Handing off the ball.

Playing some defense.  There are only 12 players on Trivium's team, so all the kids get lots of playing time.  Last week, Tommy had an awesome defensive play where he knocked down a pass going to the guy he was covering.

Tommy has had a lot of fun playing football.  He is always wanting to go in the backyard and toss the pigskin around.  He has shown tons of improvement. 

I wanted to share a funny story/conversation between Tommy and before he decided to play football.  Tommy has played basketball basically nonstop since 2nd grade.  I was encouraging him to try football just because it would be something different.  He didn't want to play because he was scared of getting hurt. 

Converastion leading up to signing up for football-

Me:  Don't worry, the only player that gets hurt is the QB. 

Tommy:  What if I'm QB?

Me:  You will never be QB.  You don't know how to throw a football. 

Tommy:  What if I'm runningback?

Me:  No, you're too slow.  You will probably be reciever or something.

Conservation after the first practice -

Tommy:  Mom, you lied.  I played QB.

Me:  What?  Did they see you throw?

Tommy:  No, we only practiced running plays.

Me:  Don't worry, once they see you throw you won't be QB.  They are probably just trying everyone out to figure where everyone is going to play.

Conservation I had with Jim after the first game (unfortunately I missed the first game because I was participating in the Plunge-N-Run in Lake Havasu).

Jim:  He played QB.

Me:  The whole game?

Jim:  Yep.

Me:  Wow.  Have they seen him throw the ball?

  His team usually runs 2-3 pass plays a game.  The rest are running plays.  I've decided I'm grateful he is QB...all the other players get hit a lot more, especially the runningback.  We didn't get video, but he did actually complete his first pass play ever.  His second pass play he threw an interception.  Below is a video of Tommy completing a pass in his third game.