What a fun weekend and awesome event! It is really quite
motivating and you see some extremely dedicated individuals persevering
through exceptionally difficult hills and waves. I was able to reach my $2,500
dollar goal for Challenged Athletes Foundation.
They honored several soldiers - Operation Rebound, a few national and international challenged athletes, and some pretty cute kids at the opening ceremonies.
As for the event and our team:
Vivian Yip, an OT from LA Shriner’s CAPP, was our swimmer and she completed her 1.2 mile open water swim in about 33 minutes! She then decided she wanted to see how much of the run she could complete… turns out she was able to complete the whole thing in 2:30!!
I completed the run and finished around 2:10. But no knee pain and my legs have not been screaming at me too bad. My mission is to do this event every year until my body decides otherwise.
BJ was our biker… she basically agreed to do the bike portion after the original biker for our team had to back out… 9 days before the event! BJ did not train at all, but still completed 35 of the 56 miles… most of it uphill. She mentioned there was a random “superman” guy on the course, that was biking up and down one gnarly hill in particular checking on some of his teammates… he offered to give her a little push to finish the last part of the hill. BJ is now hooked on this event and vowed to complete the 56 miles next year!
More photos in our gallery...Thanks again everyone for the donations, kind texts, emails and phone calls before/during/after the event. If there is anyone out there that would be interested in doing this event one year, let me know… it is amazing weather, beautiful scenery, very inspirational athletes and it is for a good cause!
Regards,
Shawn
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