More sporty stuff!

It seems we've been on a sporty streak. Last weekend we participated in the Mooloolaba Triathlon. Again Erik did the kids event, 100 meter open water swim, 3 km bike and 500 meter run, pretty easy by his standards, while I did a bit longer of a course (1.5 km swim/40km bike/10km run) but as a relay. Our team was the "Sherwood Supermums" since we all had children at Sherwood school. This year with an all over 40 team, we were able to compete in the Masters (old ladies) division and ended up third, which we were quite pleased with. Our team was evenly matched with everyone having trained seriously and placing fairly evenly in their leg (4th, 3rd, 4th).

I tried cycling this time and averaged about 32.5 kph, a big improvement for me. Being on a team is certainly a lot less stressful and a lot more social. We were all buzzing for the next few days and trying to figure out how I could come back to do it next year.


Then just yesterday, the school held it's swimming carnival. The schools all have pools here and swimming is part of PE classes, so it's a bit like track and field day, but just swimming. Erik chose to race 50 meters in everything except butterfly and did very well (two firsts and a second) since he was in the "B" heats. All the same, I was really proud of him because a lot of the kids just swam 25 meters and some didn't try at all. He seemed very happy and didn't mind being in the B heat (the A grouping was the kids with the 6 fastest times).

Time is going quicly now with just two months left in Australia. Soon we are off for a week of sailing, kayaking, hiking and biking with some friends at Lake Cootharaba. Hopefully it won't be too windy and Erik will get a lot of practice steering.