The first workout

The first workout meeting was not really what I expected. We all checked in and met our mentor groups. Everyone on my team was really cool but our mentor was still in Vegas "recovering" from his first Ironman race.

The coaches, captains, and staff had some team building activities plan. We were given a scavenger hunt. Since we were at Foothill College's track, it required us to find items from our car. I was only able to contribute: an air freshener that I stole from Cookie's car, and an apple core which was the only fruit any of us could come up with. If there had been baby toys, I would have kicked butt.

After the activities we actually started to run, but we had to meet new people every time the whistle was blown. I met some cool people including Carol who was almost twice my age and doing her 10th triathlon. I also met a few other moms and people who were equally inexperienced as me. The running was very light and those that have done other TnT events stated, "this will be the last time workouts will be easy..."