The Utah Summer Games are this weekend in St. George and I am excited to be able to participate. I haven’t really trained quite as much as I had hoped to, but I should still do fine. My goal is just to finish before Jodi’s brother and sister-in-law and her cousin and friends that are doing it! We’ll see what happens. On Monday I picked up the bike that I am renting from Salt Lake Running Company, it is pretty nice. There is a picture of the bike to the left, it is a Guru Tri bike. It is a little different than a road bike to ride, but I think I’ll be fine on it. It also has clipless pedals which I have never used before but I did go for a quick ride on Monday and I think that I should be fine. I just hope I don’t fall over because I can’t get my feet out!

I bought some new biking shoes yesterday at Salt Lake Running Company. I purchased some Shimano SH-TR30’s. They are my first pair of bike shoes like this, I’ve never used clipless pedals with cleats before so it will be a different experience, I just hope I don’t fall over while trying to get my foot out! They are even meant to be used for triathlons so they only have one strap and have a good sized loop in the back for quick on-and-off action. I also purchased a new pair of Shimano pedals and cleats for my shoes, I am excited to be able to use them. I’ll have to give them a few tries on the bike I am renting the week before I actually go to the triathlon. The gym that we go to has spinner bikes with pedals that I could use my shoes on as well, I would just need to get cleats that would fit in them.

Jodi and I also have been going to the gym more regularly as well. She has been swimming while I have been running. Today I ran 3.28 miles in about 35 minutes. I wore myself out pretty good too, but I can tell that I am able to go longer and harder than even last week. Tomorrow I plan to do some biking. We plan to work out pretty regularly for the next few weeks and hopefully keep it up after the triathlon as well, although maybe not quite as rigorously.

There are 153 days left until Jodi and I do our triathlon in June. We are doing the Utah Summer Games triathlon down at the Sand Hollow State Park by St. George. This will be my first triathlon that I will be participating in. Jodi and I are doing it as a team, so right now our plan is for her to swim and I am going to bike (14 miles) and run (5K). Right now it looks like Jodi’s brothers are also going to be participating in this triathlon and we’re trying to recruit some other people as well.

Yesterday Jodi and I went to Salt Lake Running Company and bought some shoes and socks. I did not really have good running shoes and the ones I had were a few years old so I was in need of some new ones. At Salt Lake Running Company they put me on a treadmill and video taped my feet to determine what kind of shoes that I should wear. When my foot hits the ground it doesn’t hit quite flat so I need shoes with a little extra support on one side to help flatten me out. I have not actually used my new shoes yet, but I am planning to give them a good workout over the next 153 days.