Splash and Dash

Go Team blur!

The Austin Splash and Dash is held a Quarry lake. It is an impressive location.

After the women started the race the male contestants got ready.

The lake is quite deep and the water is cold. Jed swims everyday at the pool on campus but this is different.

Even though he had done some swimming at lake Pflugerville it was not with a bunch of competitive men splashing and kicking all around him. He purposely stayed in the back of the group in the beginning because this was his first race.

The lifeguards/referees were in the yellow canoes following the group around.

The women who had a big head start soon started to trickle back in and got their running shoes on.

This is the map of the route.

The kids were waiting to see people they recognised especially their fathers.

The guys started showing up.

Jed and Greg getting out of the water.

Then it's on with the shoes.

And they are of in a blur. Thus I named them team blur.

Team blur member David.

Blurry Jed

Nate only slightly blurry but he still made the team (and got the best time)

Greg the blur.

And here we have the queen of this competition. She stomped them all. These lovely newlyweds are friends of Jed's from Institute.

Here we have the kids all watching as the guys wen round the track.

Then Jed crosses the finish line.

poor Jed. He normally swim and run much further than the 750 meter swim & 3 km run but not one right after another. His asthma got really bad and he actually ended up walking part of it.

OK! seriously! how many times do I say OK in this video?????

It was fun though and after the race was over they fed us lots of junk food. Heh.