We Tri

Triathlons. Triathlons are like drugs, they are addicting. Once you have done one, you keep going back to get that original high. But unlike drugs, triathlons are GOOD for you and you can always get that original high.

Now that Andrew and I are married and wanted to remain active, we decided to do one together.

So, a few weekends ago we drove down to beautiful St. George to compete in the St. George Tri.

First of all, St. George is so warm, it has palm trees, and it has red cliffs. I love it. We got there at dinner time but that morning I had made us a pasta dish. SO, we took our cooler to a park near the tabernacle and ate while watching the sunset and people. Then we picked up our packets and race numbers. While picking them up, we found out the water temperature was around 55-60 degrees. That's a pretty decent on the chily side for outside but that temperature to swim in is hypothermia temperature (no joke). So last minute, we rented a wetsuit for Andrew, his life was worth the $40 to me. Luckily, MaShay let me borrow hers (thanks MaShay).

We finally got to the Anjuli's house later that night. Her family was so nice to let us stay there, even when they had other guests (the guests were Meegan and Parker Mangum, we knew them from condo row, so it was a nice reunion).

We had to bike a mile in to actually get to the transition area so thats my wesuit underneath it all.

The race started later than every other triathlon i had done because of weather conditions (it tends to be really windy and the water temperature). ANyways, Andrew's heat started 20 minutes before mine. So I got to watch him swim and he actually finished his swim right as my heat was about to leave so we got to say hi then. We then saw each other on the bike and the run! It was so cool.

Sutton: 1:35:44 2nd in age group 20-24

Andrew: 1:34:51 21st in age group 25-29

We were both very happy with our results considering how little training we did (at least compared to when before I was married). It was so much fun!!

After the race we enjoyed some free food and seeing people I knew from the BYU Tri team.

After we cleaned up, we did a session at the St. George temple. It was beautiful!! Then we ate with the Tuscano family, some of the best enchiladas ever. Then we went to Dairy Queen! It's a tradition for me to go to Dairy Queen after a race that I plan to keep alive for the rest of my life.

Moral of the story: I love warm weather, triathlons, ice cream, the temple, and my husband.