Kemah Triathlon

Sunday morning came pretty quick. Scott got up at some crazy hour and I got up at 5:30am got myself together and got the girls up and headed down to the lobby at 6am. I grabbed a bagel and the girls chose Fruit Loops (blech!) and we were off. We got to the Boardwalk and loaded up all our stuff (why did we have so much) and headed off to where everyone would be coming in from the water.  I was so worried that we were going to miss things but in waiting for the sun to make it's appearance there was a late start. So we found a place and had our breakfast and waited.

 And there they all sit waiting to jump in

 Uh, that boat is far.

 Aren't they cute?!

 Finally we could see swimmers!

Once I could see that those with green caps were swimming in I moved us from the water to the red carpet. Yep, they laid out a red carpet where they could run in from the water back to transition. I picked to stand right by the wetsuit strippers thinking the girls would have a chance to yell out to their Dad when he stopped. The area was very chaotic. There was a lot of yelling and movement and it scared Abby. Seriously, she was crying and clinging to me. Unfortunately with this and the fact that everyone was in black making it hard to spot people I wasn't able to get in pics of Scott coming out of the water. It didn't help that he totally bypassed the strippers either. We headed back towards transition to see where we should head next. I knew there was no way we could see him leave out on his bike so we set up to find the perfect place to at least see him come back. 

 Transition area

 It's a serious sport

Looking for Daddy

He was doing this while we were waiting:

And then we finally saw him coming in. He even said hi this time!

 I also noticed that he was bleeding. Awesome.

We were able to catch him in transition going out for his run.

So while he was doing this:

Reagan made a couple of friends.

 Crossing the finish line!

 Waiting for Dad to come out of transition

Reagan's favorite part of races is getting to wear the medal!

Scott did a great job. Yes, there may have been a bike crash but all was well. The girls are becoming good little race buddies too. They were amazingly well behaved. The hardest part of it all was being able to see everywhere at the same time. I wanted to take pictures of the race but every few seconds I would have to look for Reagan. She's is just Miss Social. She made friends, she pet dogs and gave weeds flowers to people. Next event will be he MS 150 but at least I will not be alone!