Whitehorse Triathlon
Carrie posted in Recreation on June 5th, 2007
On Sunday some friends from the hostel and I volunteered at the Whitehorse Triathlon. Early in the morning we were given duties and instructions for the day. I sat and counted laps for the swimming part (because the lakes are still frozen so they had to do it in the pool) and also directed traffic around cyclists and runners when the swimming was finished. You could do an Olympic distance race or a Sprint distance if you were just warming up to the idea of triathlons and still wanted to get involved. Plus you could also sign up as a team and have different people do different legs of the journey. One team had the grandaughter do the swimming (she was around 7 years-old or something and was so nervous at the beginning of the swim that she was crying) and then her grandfather did the cycling part and parent of some sort the jogging. It was really cool to see the family participating like that…and they did the Olympic distances!! The little totally lapped her lane partner she was so quick!
After the triathlon everyone was feeling really lazy so we decided to go to Rotary park and play some frisbee. Six of us from hostel started out and then we met 4 students from Seattle who had stopped for lunch in the park and asked them to join. It was a fun game that had to be explained several times in 3 different languages but everyone got the point and we had fun. At half time (some might call it “Ohmigod can we stop because I’m too out of shape to play much longer”) an older gentlemen joined our toss group. (Just standing around in a large circle tossing the frisbees and practicing different throws). We practiced flicking the disc and skipping and cool catches and everything for the rest of the afternoon. It was actually really, really hot and humid so we were too keen on playing much more. But my shoulder is so sore now from all the practice! On Tuesday night Greg and I were invited to join a pick-up Ultimate league at the Takhini fields and if this rain clears out it should be fun!
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