Viking Man Tri

Today was my last tri of the year...the Viking Man in Pleasant Grove. It was a fundraiser for the Pleasant Grove High School swim team. It was so cold and was raining off and on the whole time. Even though it was cold, it actually turned out to be pretty fun. Jod also raced and my Dad and B raced as a team (my Dad's first time!). This was the first reverse order tri that I have done and I liked the change. It was nice to have the run (my least favorite of the three) done at the first.

All in all I participated in 5 races this year: Utah Summer Games (as a relay with Sabrina), Echo Tri, Alta Canyon Tri, Ogden Valley, and Viking Man.

Next year I am hoping to do a few new ones including one in San Diego and one in Burley, Idaho.

LoveRunner at Velour

Last night we played a show at Velour in Provo. It was a fun night. We had a "fill-in" drummer with us, who did an excellent job with only one practice with the band. Velour is one of my favorite places to play because it is such a nice venue. They have great sound and a really cool atmosphere. We played with the Darling Broads, Knotty Pine, and the Goodlife Experience. Photos courtesy of rock photographer Sabrina Green.

Here's me and Jonathan. (The smoke is from our wailing guitars)

Here is the whole band.

Ogden Valley Tri

Saturday the 15th was the Ogden Valley Tri. It was the first time that I have participated in this race, and it was great. It took us about an hour to drive from Salt Lake to Pineview Reservoir in the morning. It was pretty chilly when we got there, but warmed up a lot by the time I was done. It is a really pretty area and a great place for a tri. I ended up doing a lot better than I thought I would. The sad thing is that I got a faster overall time here than at Echo and the bike course was a few miles longer here.

Here I am getting out of the water...I felt pretty good even though I hadn't really trained. The wetsuit I was using made it hard to move my shoulders. Next time I will rent a tri wetsuit.


Somehow I actually pulled off my fastest bike time at this race...faster than any other tri I have done. I lost my water bottle with about 1.5 miles to go and I almost hit a spectator who was crossing the road, oblivious to the fact that there were bikers coming down the street at 20+ mph.

The run was bad news! I had a pretty slow time (about 30 minutes). The first half of the course was a gradual hill and then turned into a single track trail run. By the time I got to the run it was getting pretty warm. I had been leap frogging this one guy the whole way. We ended up chatting with about 200m to go, it was his first race. I couldn't let him beat me on his first race so I took off right at the end.

It was a fun race that I think I will be doing again next year.

Removed Family Photo

Sorry if you are wondering where my family photos are. But i've been asked not to have that on the internet. So i've removed it. Sorry for any troubles.

Just for fun poll

I just added a poll to our blog to help decide our baby's name. So far I think we are probably going to name him Harrison and his last name will most likely be Green...it's the middle name we need help with. So here are the options (and explanations):

Joshua (his dad's name)
Averil (not sure if that is spelled right, but that would be his great-grandpa's name, my dad's dad)
Trevor (Sabrina's dad's name)
Ford (uh, hello...Harrison Ford!)

This is just a fun poll, we aren't taking it too seriously...let us know what you think!

Baby's First Kicks (first that dad felt anyway...)

We were just sitting on the couch tonight watching tv when Sabrina said that she felt the baby kick. I put my hand on her stomach and he kicked two more times! Sabrina has been feeling him move a little but tonight was the first time that I felt him move. It's a pretty awesome feeling to know that he is in there and moving around.

Alta Canyon Triathlon

Today I did the Alta Canyon Triathlon. It was a "mini sprint" which means that it was shorter that a standard sprint distance race. The swim was in a pool and was 400 meters, the bike was 9 miles, and the run was a 5K.


There were a few new things for me on this race:


First, I have never done a tri in a pool. It actually worked out pretty nice. We had to all line up according to how fast we thought we were going to swim. I got in the line at the end of the 6 minute group. Racers were started one at a time and were not allowed to dive. You had to first start your chip by putting your foot on the timing box and then jump in and go. Once you got to an orange flag, the next swimmer would start. There were four lanes and you would swim down and back in one lane and then move on to the second, third, and fourth and do the same thing. I passed the kid ahead of me after about 100 meters.


The second new thing was using my cycling shoes and pedals. I have used them on quite a few training rides, but this was the first race. They worked out really nice, but were a little weird to run in when leaving the T1 and coming into T2.


The last new thing for me on this race was that I actually won something! I came in 3rd in my age division and got a medal for it! I was 42nd overall out of the 172 racers who finished. I finished 26th out of the 65 male racers who finished.


Overall, it was a great even. I seemed to be pretty nice for spectators too since they got to see the racers at several points in the race. There was also a kids race that was a swim and run. We are looking forward to when we can do a father and son race day in a few years...


Thanks to Bina, Jod, and B for coming out to support me!

Custom Baby Clothes

Here are a few pics of the baby clothes I made for our little guy. We found a good deal on the onesies and the shirts at the Carter's outlet in Park City. We got blank ones so that I could print something on them. Yes the second one is a robot, I know I am a nerd.

The Crib

So we got our crib yesterday afternoon from Babies R Us (it was quite an ordeal that involved me locking myself out of my running truck in Orem and Sabrina driving from Salt Lake to open my door...). We love it! It is the same "rubbed black" finish as the changing table/dresser that we bought earlier. We got some bedding a while ago from overstock.com and it looks pretty good in the crib. Now all we need is a mattress...and a baby.