Sunday, May 3, 2009

Team Magically Delicious, you ask?

Now, here's a good story! A few months ago, Deb, Alicia and I decided to sign up as a relay team for the Smith Mountain Lake Sprint Triathlon. Backing up a few weeks...at first I thought...1/2 mile swim, 20K bike, and 5K run? no sweat, I can handle all of that on my own...sign me up! Well, my good friend Sharyn (and competitive swimmer), decided to take me and a few other to the pool for a "swim assessment", as she called it. I have never taken swimming lessons, but feel I did pretty well at teaching myself to swim, so i thought I'd pass with flying colors. Come to find out that the Ferrara brand of swimming = not real swimming! ;) Needless to say, I failed the "assessment" miserably, because I just really don't know how to breathe correctly when swimming free style.

Fortunately, Deb and Alicia were up for a relay, so Deb took some time late one night to sign us up and we all worked hard to prepare for our leg of the tri. When we arrived on Saturday morning to check in, the woman at registration said, "so what's you're team name?" We all looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders. When were we to have chosen a team name? Deb obviously chose one for us late that night when she registered us, but even she couldn't remember what it was. The woman began looking us up by name and then stated, "your team name is Magically Delicious." Alicia and I both turned to Deb, "Deb!!! Really? what were you thinking?" She replied "oohhh, it was late at night! It was late!" It was hilarious! and yet embarassing that the thirty-somethings have a name that seems identical to a cereal slogan! I mean, calling us the Lucky Charms would have been better than Magically Delicious! Fortunately, we were certain that from that point on in the day, no one would be able to associate US with our team name. It was once again a funny moment, when Deb crossed the finish line and the announcer says "magically delicious now crossing to finish." We couldn't help but laugh...it served her right for giving us that blasted name!

But our funniest moment yet, was when they began the awards ceremony and shockingly WE were awarded 3rd place in the women's relay!...and over the microphone, we all hear, "third place goes to magically delicious?" Even the announcer didn't quite know what to do with our team name! and in the end EVERYONE knew exactly the faces that belonged to Team Magically Delicious! Sooo funny!

I absolutely LOVED being part of a triathlon! We are already talking about doing a few more; Next one will be at the end of June. It was so exhilerating to even be there, watching others work toward achieving something that they set out to do AND to work hard (myself) at accomplishing one small personal goal, to race in a triathlon. My bike race time was ranked #2 for the women's relay! A complete surprise! I'm looking forward to training for the next one and hoping to doing the entire tri myself. I'm so proud of us! Go Team Magically Delicious!