Its Monday morning and I'm back at work.

I had a pretty good experience with my triathlon on Sunday morning. Saturday night, I slept in the guest room so that I could get some good uninterupted sleep.

I was up at 4:30am and left the house at 5:00am so I was glad to have slept well. Check-in started at 5:30, then I got my transition area set up and just relaxed and stretched for an hour until it was time to head down to the beach.

The race was a 2/3 mile swim, 24 mile bike, and 5 mile run. My finish time was 2hrs 22 minutes. I've been faster in the past on this same course, but I was still happy with my result.

I was 96/235 overall, 88/185 men, and 23/33 in my division (men 35-39).

I was most suprised by my swim. I was 117th/235 on the swim. Usually I swim worse than that. I think it was watching all the Michael Phelps coverage on the olympics that improved my swim place. It certainly wasn't from all the time I'e spent practicing in the pool (none).

I was 46th/235 on the bike leg and 145th/235 on the run (8:34 avg pace).

After the race we went to lunch with Amy, Jack, Kate, my friend 'uncle' Mike (who also did the race), and 'aunt' Stacey. Kate and Jack were both prefect kids at lunch. Kate was awake and happy the whole time and Jack was a perfect little gentleman. Sunday afternoon, I was pretty tired but Amy wanted to go get a pedicure. After spending the prior night in the guest room sleeping soundly, I realized that I better go along with this plan.

We put Jack down for his afternoon nap, then I fed Kate her first bottle while Amy got ready. She took right to it and drank about 3oz. Jack was still singing and playing in his crib. The minute Amy left, he fell asleep and Kate went to sleep in her swing. I took a steam shower and then napped for an hour. When Amy got home I was well rested! I know this frustrates her since it never seems to work out that well for her.