Way to go. That is great that she beat here goal by almost 10 minutes. If she has another race that she excited about, she is hooked.

Awesome and great job...to both of you!

Congratulations to your wife. I race and train with my wife and we have a great time together.

We did our A race of the season last saturday (race report still cooking)

Great Job!! :)

Congrats!! Smiling at the finish is a good sign she is hooked.:D

Congrats! What a nice picture!

Hey Slowswimr,

The Tri we did was one of the "Tri the Parks" series here in Georgia. If you're unfamiliar they are mostly sprints at 6 of the state parks in Georgia. They do a great job of running them and are a lot of fun. My wife did the one in Jackson, Ga at High Falls State Park.

Yes, we're both doing the sprint in Peachtree City. There expecting 1000 triathletes. Again it's a great event and should be fun! Will you be there?

Apons

Yes, I'll be there. I messed up my training and probably won't finish high but I plan to have fun.

I have heard about the series. Sounds like a very hilly course. Are they? I'm from Florida and if I'm going to do the series next year, I need to know if its road bike or mountain bike.

Any place called High Falls has to be tough! I always assume the swim to be flat, and I can handle hilly runs, but I'd have to train for hills on my bike.

Please tell me the secret to getting a wife to do a Tri! My wife has a box of medals and trophies from road races, and she was good enough to go to state in cross country her senior year of high school.

I just did my first Tri last week, so I'm thinking if I do 3 or 4 next summer, that will show her that I'm a little more serious about it, and then I can work her into the plan.

I'm curious how others got their spouses involved.

Wow that is great, I want to look that good next week at my 1st
My husband's so jealous, I'll get him by next year

I'd be willing to give it a shot! Your definitly on to something socket!

I was only half joking. I did the Turtle Crawl (Oly) on Jekyll Island. It was 6'-8' swells in the Atlantic. I felt like the boat in "Perfect Storm".

I'd take a breath, go to put my face down in the water and there wasn't any! Then take a stroke and turn my head to breathe and I'm several feet underwater. I had to wait to bob back up.

Always makes for a great race. In my race, when we turned to swim back to shore, it was body surfing gone wild. I didn't have to swim forward the waves did that and I was moving very fast, but I had to fight to stay at the surface for air. The rip kapt trying to pull me to the bottom.

My next Tri is a lake swim so I expect calm waters.

Mine agreed, but we never signed up due to my injuries. In my case it was simply a matter of her coming to enough races that she figured she ough to do one.

Then again, she's still faster than me in the pool and on the bike...she's got a bit of incentive now that I'm finally catching her ;)