It was a great Old Home Weekend. My favorite part might be the family triathlon, which we started the year before last thanks to a conversation Terry and I were having about Tri-s. I was like, "let's have one here, tomorrow!" Thus began a great new tradition. People can participate as singles, doing all three legs themselves, or in relay teams with one swimmer, one biker and one runner. It goes like this: swim to the raft and back, bike around the circle twice (3 miles), run around the circle once (1.5 miles). Some people are so strong that we give them handicaps, like making Netdahe ride Gram's bike from the 1970s. Everyone who does NOT participate stands in the road and cheers or makes rude comments. Mom took a bunch of little video clips and the whole thing just totally cracks me up. Like here when everyone is actually listening to me as though I have some authority. And as though it is all really important, which maybe it is but it is also really silly.
Here we are for the first leg: the swim. Notice how fast Kali is, with Netdahe not too far behind. And how serious we all are when we get out and run up the hill.
And Harper on her bike, faster than anyone on a bike. Faster than anyone in the world:
The whole thing was inexplicably fun. Here are the results:
Single Particpants
1st Place: Netdahe: 20:19
2nd Place: Kali: 21:30
3rd Place: Alan: 24:08
4th Place: Zoe: 25:09
(since this is my blog I can point out here that I was the only woman and the only person over 40 to do the whole thing)
Relay Teams (Swim, Bike, Run)
1st Place: Henekis, Harper, Patrick: 22:30
2nd Place: David A., Jordyn, Shani: 24:45
3rd Place: Abby, Jess, Neil: 25:09
4th Place: Donna, Tommy/Faith, Deb: 32:57
I'd like to point out here that Faith (age 7.5) wanted to participate so her mom swam, Tommy rode the tandem with Faith, and Deb, who is a cyclist and not a runner, ran. And without stopping. They are awesome. They did it all for the kid. Adults in my family are always doing shit like that. Pulling out all the stops and expending a ton of energy so a kid can have a blast. It is definitely one of the great strengths of this family.
Bad Ass Netdahe with his trophy:
Thank you everyone for such a fun time. I'm going to practice my swimming so next year I can dominate!
