That’s the name of the Triathlon I ended up doing. It’s not nearly as spectacular as the real Escape from the Rock Triathlon in San Francisco, but it was good enough for me. 
I can’t really say I had trained super hard, but I was in reasonable shape, until … I got hit with a mega flu that floored me, 6 days before the event. Checking in with people whose opinion I valued for this, I decided to set myself to do it, and make the final decision the day itself. My swim coach (or in actual fact the guy who had taught me how to swim breast stroke/freestyle) encouraged me to go for it. Better to try and not make it, than to live with regret. And he’s right, thanks Ed!
The miracle worker though was the massage therapist (at Dream clinic) who virtually flushed away whatever illness I had residing in my body, and that Sunday I felt better than I had in a long time.
The goal was to finish, and the uber goal was to be back in shape when Naomi turned one. Well, I can say I achieved my goals, even though I realize I will probably never look as good as I did when I got pregnant, and my time at the race was pretty darn slow. But it’s the experience that did it for me;
Getting to the field in the morning with Lauren (who had done the Danskin two weeks before in the cancer survivor group!), setting up the gear for the transitions, waiting by the water, wondering how much of my newly acquired skills I would remember to use in the water, exhausted job from water to bike, the great surprise of my husband coming to see me, and encouraging me through T1 (the first transition), enjoying the bike ride over the I90 bridge center car lanes, transitioning to the run, while feeling I am going to make it, running the last stretch and even encouraging others, and sprinting the last meters with Lauren by my side. And of course, then talking about the whole thing as if it was nothing.
All in all, it was pretty cool. But I don’t think I’ll be come a regular anytime soon. Training takes a lot of time, and it has to be your passion, even if you do the triathlons just for fun. But I escaped from my little rock, against the odds.
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