Bluff Creek Triathlon-Jason's FIRST official Tri!

Today, Jason ran his first ever triathlon!  He participated in the Bluff Creek Triathlon, Sprint division.  He did great and loved it!

Here we are in the car on the way down, just being goofy! :)

We stayed with these guys, Titus, Cici, and baby Winny! They were great hosts! :)  Thanks Holly and Andy for lending us a bed for the night before!

This is the transition area for the bike portion of the race.  Lots of bikes, lots of athletes...

Here they are getting ready for the first leg of the race, the swim.  The water temperature was 56 degrees...and Jason did the swim WITHOUT a wetsuit.  Talk about FREEZING!!

Here are the Herrick guys getting ready for their race!  Justin, Jason, and their dad Richard...

Here is Jason as he is coming really close to being done in the water, he had to swim approx. 500 meters from a beach as shown above.

Titus and Cici are having some fun while the guys are out on their bike ride.  Jason had to ride 15 miles, while Richard and Justin had to ride approx. 26 miles.

If you looke really closely, you can see Jason and his bike with the white shirt.  He used a mountain bike for this race since it was his first one and it was short, that may need to change if he continues to do these in the future...he said he was pedaling like a madman and getting passed like crazy...a new and fancier bike may be in order...

Jason's strongest leg of the race...the run.  He had to run 3.1 miles...

Here is Justin heading out for the run, Richard and him had to run 6.2 miles.

Richard heading out to the run...almost done!!

YAY!! Great job Jason!!  You did it!  Also congrats to Richard and Justin for doing great too!!  Justin was 3rd overall for the olympic length course!  What a great accomplishment! 

We had a great weekend!  Jason has plenty more of these planned for this summer...so you will be seeing a lot of him in his spandex suit! Hahaha!!