A couple weeks ago Dustin did the Salem Triathlon. It was great fun but not without a few snags.

We started out on the wrong foot when Dustin woke up quite dizzy and light-headed Saturday morning. When breakfast and getting up didn’t help, we abandoned our plans to be there with plenty of time and he went back to bed for an hour. We managed to get there with enough time and get Dustin signed in and set up. Here’s our favorite cheer-leader, complete with bran muffin on his lip and lap:

Dustin slowly started feeling better as the morning went on, but didn’t really start feeling good until about halfway through the swim. But he did start feeling good and finished strong in the swim.

Although he’s on a mountain bike, rather than a road bike, Dustin does a great job of keeping up with a lot of athletes on much faster bikes. That is until he got a flat tire. Thankfully he took a patch kit and was able to finish the race–props to him for sticking it out. It’s the only time he’s raced without an extra tube, of course.

He finished with a strong run an overall time of 1:37. Not bad considering 15 minutes was spent fixing his flat.

I got to chase little J.J. during the race–I almost felt like we’d done a triathlon ourselves!

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