Red Dress Run 2009 August 8th

This was my 5th year doing the red dress run. For those not familiar it's basically a pub crawl around new orleans where everyone , I mean everyone wears a red dress.. the fun thing is you don't know where you are going, it's all a surprise.

The first year I did the RDR it was only about 2, 000 people, tons of fun, not it's grown a bit out of control with like 15,000 people. It's still fun just not quite the same.

me, Mary, Michelle, Lynn, and Genny



George and Adam

Me and Adam

Corey, Gregg, Andrew and Adam

Rocket Chix Triathalon

This past weekend was my friend Mary's 1st triathalon. A few months ago she signed up to do the Rocket Chix all girls beginner tri in Baton Rouge. I helped her with her training, she borrowed my bike and I gave her some tips here and there, and on Saturday it was finally race day!

Our friend Michelle made the trip with us for extra support and I wore my "Coach" shirt that Mary gave me for my birthday:)

Pre-race picture!

The race started at 7 am but we got there about 5:45 so Mary could get all of her stuff ready and swim some practice laps.

When the race started I think she was a bit nervous but that soon went away and she had a great time.

Getting ready to start!

First was the swim in pool at the natatorioum. It was 7 legnths in the pool. She did great, passing people, swimming the whole way etc.

Then it was on to Transition I, my coaching kicked in durring T-I b/c she was primping as people were passing her by so I had to yell at her to GO!!.... but she finally got out onto the bike course:)

Applying lip gloss......

The 12 mile bike went well, that was the part I was most nervous about. She did great though stayed right on pace and finished at her expected time. She was even smiling when she came into T-2!

T-2 was a much faster transition and then she was out on the 2 mile run. Michelle and I underestimated her run time and we almost missed her comming into the finish line!!

Mary's goal was 2 hours and she finished in 1:58 so she did great! I was very proud of her and she can't wait to do it again next year:)