Lara Zielin

FAVE LINKEY-POO RIGHT THIS SECOND: This Improv Everywhere skit from Grand Central Station. Think New Yorkers are unflappable? Maybe not, according to this vid. Thanks, Lauren, for sending it my way!

Last weekend, I competed in a duathlon. It’s like a triathlon, but for people like me who hate swimming competitively, there’s no getting wet. In this particular race, I ran a mile, biked 11 miles, and then ran 3 miles.

One of  the best parts about the race was that I had friends there from my awesome gym, Ypsi Studio, and we were able to support and encourage each other the whole time. How cute (and tough! grrr!) are we?

Here we are, at the beginning of the one-mile. I’m fresh and dewy, ready to run. (Fresh and dewy = sweaty already. And it only gets worse.)

Here I am biking. It’s blurry — because I’m going SO! FAST! (Actually, I think it’s a technique from Rob’s fancy-schmancy camera, but I’m going to pretend it’s because I’m so speedy.)

And here I am booking it to the finish line! And I eventually made it! My time was one hour, 24 minutes, which exceeded my wildest expectations for the race.

Here I am, immediately after finishing.

I’m happy! And will I be doing this again next year? You bet. This race was awesome.

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