We have been training and planning on this race for close to 9 months. It is an awesome set of women standing in this photo with me. I cherish their determination and drive. We each completed a full Iron Woman Race….. but the catch is we had two weeks to complete it! The fastest one was Rebecca who just had a baby like two months ago…. what the heck? She finished in 3.5 days. The next fastest was like 6 days where a lot of people finished at and then I was at 8 days. It was hard to find time while doing soccer camps….it meant losing lots of sleep. We often were up at 5:30 or 6:00 going for 20 mile bike rides. It was fun to catch up with these girls and have social time first thing in the morning. It all went as planned and I only had one mishap with my clips on the bike …..trying to go up a hill and not making it, not getting out of the clips…… I ended up with a pretty good scratch up the back of my calf where the metal cog for the chain scraped down my calf muscle. I also got a flat tire on one bike ride and had to wait for Jeanie to come rescue me in Niedermohr! It was so much fun and sooooo worth all the hard work.
We had a BBQ to commemorate the finish. Jeanie is wearing the official race shirt for biking that we all received. This is an official registered race out of UTAH that a lady started a few years ago. Now people from Germany, Utah, and Idaho participate. We got cute necklaces for finishing that were presented that night. love these ladies: Kari, Jeanie, Rebecca, me, Candice, Kim, Jeanette, and Jamie.
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