A National Champion!

I'm sure everyone gets tired of hearing about triathalons!! I know I do! But it is such a part of our life. This past weekend Derek and I went to Vegas for a race. It was actually the National Championship. There were a few general entry slots but most everyone there had to have a cetrtain time in a past race to be able to compete. Derek competed in the half. Which is the mile swim, 56 mile bike and 13.1 mile run. He said it was the hardest race he has ever done. He heard it was a hard course but even then I dont think he was prepared for what it was. The bike felt like he was biking the Grand Canyon. It was all UP HILL! The last hour he was going about 6 miles per hour. That is extremely slow when normally he averages 22 MPH in races. WOW! Some people were actually walking their bikes cuz that was faster then riding them. Well, he ended up doing pretty good. He got FIRST in his division. How cool is that. All the people who placed in other divisions got offered a slot to Worlds which is in like Sweden or something. Every division except Dereks. He is in the Clydsdale division which is people over 200 lbs. Why even have the division if your not going to treat it the same. People who are my husbands size are NEVER going to be as fast as someone a lot smaller then him. He's a football player. He's naturally a bigger guy. Oh-well. Long story short is he did GREAT!! This was also the first time we left Sadie over night!! YEAH for us!! It was so nice. We went with some of our friends who were also there and saw the show KA at MGM. It was a awesome weekend!