Always and adventure when the Seiples get together........

So... I flew home this NJ to participate in my first Triathalon ever. This is an 'adventure" triathalon meaning off road, on trails etc. My dad has been doing them for a few years and my sister has joined him in it as well. So this year she is pregnant and couldnt' do the entire thing so she asked me and my other sister to do it as a team. As a team One person runs, two do a tandem kayak, and one bikes. They replace the swim with a kayak. Its in NJ in Oct so...you can understand a swim would be a wee chilly....3 mile run, 2 mile kayak, 5 mile bike...

So we get there... unpack our gear and do our thing to get ready. It was a great day weather wise. Its my dad , my brother Jon, Katie, Ashley and Myself doing this. Support team is Mom, Gregg and Steven. Now you need support teams to help you in the transitions esp in getting the kayak to the water. But as a team which I was in we had to do it ourselves but ill get to that in a minute.


So we did the run, I was very very pleased with myself in the run considering the last ten years I have been a bodybuilder. Mind you no matter how good we look, in essence we are NOT in shape . We do cardio but not the kind that prepares you for running and this sort of activity. So my body needed to be retrained for this. In college heck this would have been a cake walk. So anyway did the run faster than I had expected which i was happy. And off we were with carrying the kayak to the water. Which carrying a kayak when you haven't even had a chance to stop after a run is NOT fun...but we got it to the water and away we went. I was lead , katie was rear. Jon was somewhere up ahead as he killed it in the run....dad was not too far behind...AND THEN....the story begins.... heaven forbid we get to jsut go and blend BUT NO ...the SEIPLE'S ALWAYS MAKE A HEADLINE!!! :)

There is a Canoe team we pass that capsizes as we passs and the woman in the canoe can't swim and begins to panic as the canoe is slowly sinking. We ask if she needs help to which she screams YES HELP ME! And out flops my five months pregnant sister in to the water.... To rescue the woman.... I of course follow. Katie gets to her first and pulls her up on the canue and gets be hind her and i am beside her holding her up. She is terrified. Once I see shes secured with Katie I notice our kayak floating away rapidly across the lake. I try to go after it but it was traveling too fast and to be honest life vests make it impossible to swim. So I waited with katie and for the rescue boat to arrive. By this time about 20 minutes has passed. So finally another rescue boat gets our kayak and takes it to a further away pier where this boat drops us off. Eceryone assumed we would quit...HECK NO ..SEIPLES DON"T QUIT! Goodness...so we hopped in and took off. We are now at the back of the pack in the lake and are now in a head wind and its getting choppy because a storm is coming. So ...we end up finishing the kayak ( 2 mile kayak) and Ashley takes off on the bike. She actually did it in a really good time! AND she just had a baby six weeks ago...yep we are nuts!


We joked taht katie and I thought there was a swim involved ...lol I have to say the water wasn't too bad at the time...but i didn't warm up the rest of the day!

So at the awards ceremony they honored us for our rescue and made a big deal over us which was kinda of nice and embarrassing. Team SEIPLE GIRLS :) AND go figure we only came in 5 mins behind the team that beat us . We took second. Had we not been tied up for about 20 mins we would have won OH WELL~~~ WE HAD A BLAST!!


JON took second in his division, we tooks econd and dad did his best time ever!

So waht is the moral to this story? IT MEANS I NEED TO GET WORKING BECAUSE I NEVER STOP AT SECOND PLACE:) And next year Ill do it as a solo racer not a team and see how I can fare! I hope my sisters do it solo too so we can compete against each other. We absolutely had a blast.

What shocks me is dad passed us at some point and didnt' notice us floating in the water with the capsized people...LOL ah well! He was focused!

So that was teh fun for the weekend! Always an adventure!~

AND YES BODYBUILDERS CANBE QUITE ATHLETIC!!! :)