Spudman Tri

Mel is too humble to type anything, so she just posted pictures.  So, I'll type a few things.  The Spudman is held every year in Burley, ID, next to the Snake River.  I can't say much about Burley, other than I've never seen so many taco carts on the sides of the roads.  Not even in Ogden.

She had a really great race, and was nervous because this was her first "Olympic" triathlon.  She's done "Sprints" in the past, which is a 1/2 mile swim, 13 mile bike, and a 5k run.  The Olympic is basically double that.  So, she swam 1 mile, biked for 25 miles, and then ran a 10k.  Now that's impressive.  And one of the many reasons I'm proud to be her husband.

Her goal was not to finish last.  I told her I'd make sure that wouldn't happen, and if she was coming in last, I'd pull a Jeff Gillooly and take out the second-to-last place finisher's kneecaps.

We were saddened to find out that a prominent businessman from Provo had drowned in the river during one of the swim heats.  Article here.  Makes you really appreciate your life and look around at all of your blessings perhaps a little bit more, and maybe in not so casual a manner.

Another perk of driving past Brigham City: we stopped at Maddox on our way home and gorged ourselves on their homemade rolls.  We even talked our server into smuggling three more rolls in a take-home container.  Yum!  He got a good tip that night.