Mom's Letters: Ty's Triathlon

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ty's Triathlon

Saturday Tyler did the Anthem Triathlon. It was so much fun to go up and support him and he did really great! It was a 400 meter swim (16 laps), 12 mile bike ride and 3 mile run (with a lot more hills than we are used to here in Queen Creek!) He and his buddies from work signed up several weeks ago together and I thought it was a great idea. I want to participate next December with Ty, Ali and Blake. That would be awesome for the brothers and us sisters to do together. And good motivation to get fit again, post babies!

Anyway, I took a lot of pictures because I was so proud of him.

Afterward we stopped off at the Anthem outlets which were right there to do some shopping and saw the tallest Christmas tree in the nation! It was something to behold! I would love to take the kids back sometime to see it lit up at night. But isn't this a classic picture - Arizona in December - palm trees and Christmas trees together.

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Anonymous said...: way to go, TY! i dont know how you do it....amazing! not an easy thing to complete. you look so good too!! woohoo; December 13, 2010 at 4:02 PM

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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ty's Triathlon

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