Triathletes!

Ace and TJ kept very busy this past weekend…they ran the Spartan Race on Saturday (10 miles of mud and obstacles) and then got up Sunday morning and competed in the Spotsylvania Sprint Triathlon. I skipped watching the Spartan Race on Saturday to hang out with our friends Sara and Ben who were in town, but we all went to watch the triathlon on Sunday. Here’s what we were witness to:

Andrew started first with his swim.

Yep that’s his watch. Swimming pictures are very difficult to take….

Then he ran outside to transition to the bike portion of the race…where he had a major shirt malfunction. It rolled up behind his back and he couldn’t get it to cooperate and unroll.

So he gave up and took off on the bike without it.

Then it was back inside to watch TJ take off on his swim. He wasn’t too thrilled about it at first…

But soon he was in the water and doing just fine.

Then it was his turn to run outside and get ready for the bike portion.

Clearly, he was more excited for this portion of the race.

After a 12 mile bike ride, Ace returned…

..and took off on his 5k run!

Then we waited to see which would happen first…would Ace finish running or TJ finish biking first?! There were many false alarms and I admit to having a few pictures of strangers thinking that it might be one of our guys, but soon we got to see them both return!

Ace’s race was officially done, but TJ still had the run to go due to their staggered start times. Ace decided he didn’t want to let his friend run alone, so he took off again down the trail. (Yes, this did nearly make me cry…what a good guy I’ve got!)

And soon it was time for the BIG FINISH. Ace was clearly quite done at this point….TJ was clearly SO EXCITED to be done…

Ace peeled off and let TJ run in for his finish.

Then we waited it out to see how well they did. Official times were posted and awards were given out.

 

Ace won third place in his age division! Way to go, honey!

We were all super proud of these guys.

Did you know these two are running the Marine Corps Marathon together this year too?! Impressive, aren’t they!?