One Clydesdale’s Journey

What do you get you get when you have two people who are married and hooked on triathlons? Well, if their anniversary is during the triathlon season then it seems to be a no brainer that they run a race together. Right?

Well at least that is what my beautiful bride Shelly and I are planning on doing next weekend.

And for those of you wondering what the 12 | 1 means in the title, well that’s an easy one as well.

The 12 represents which anniversary this is and the 1 is for our first annual anniversary triathlon. Yes, we plan on not only doing this again, but making it a yearly event. If all goes according to plan I’m hoping that we’ll have shirts that will reflect that as well for next weekend.

So, if you happen to be at the Waupaca Area Triathlon next weekend and you see 2 people biking or running together wearing shirts that have that on the front; say hi to us.

I was also able to get a hold of one of the race officials and Shelly and I will be starting in the same swim wave. The beauty of that is that neither one of us will have to wait for the other one so that we can start on the bike portion of the race.

As far as the swim goes; we are both pretty evenly match there, so we should be getting out of the water at about the same time.

Overall, we aren’t too worried about time for this race and we are looking at it as more of a training session. Especially for me since my bike and run are a lot faster than Shelly’s. With that in mind, I’ll let her set the pace for those two portions of the race.

And, knowing Shelly like I do, once we get out there in the mix of things and in the middle of the whole race; her adrenaline is going to kick in and she’ll be going at a full pace rather than a training pace. And I’m okay with that.

Later,
John W.
A Clydesdale in training