Triathlon, Championship Baseball Game and Birthday Party

What a busy day for Collin today!  It started at 4:30am when we woke him up to tell him she could do the triathlon that he went to bed thinking not able to do. Surprisingly, he was fine getting up and getting dressed. He was very talkative like he usually is early in the morning driving to a race. Even though it was painful to get up that early, it was with it because we did not have to wait in a long line when we got to the race. They were expecting 3,000 kids to show up. Collin was racing as part of his school team of 76 students. 

The was he was able to race it Dad called the race director and got him moved to the experienced group which started at 7:30am. That meant we could still make it to his 10am baseball game. Collin was excited about racing with kids that had experience knowing that he would not have to dodge around kids that were much lower than him. Finally at 8 AM, they started his division of the race. He was one of the last ones in the pool and struggled during the swim. I am not surprised because he has not swam much since last June. He did make it out of the pool and ran toward the transition taking his goggles and swim cap off as he ran by us. Knowing he is fast on the bike, I ran to the finish line to get there before he did. I had about 5 minutes to spare until he ran by. He looked tired but kept running. 

Once he finished, the plan was for he and I to head straight to the car so he could make it to the baseball game. Dad would stay so he could get his bike when the transition area opened. Collin want dbto head back to the school team tent to see his friends .. and probably show off the medal. It was a nice one so I could not blame him. We stayed for another 10 minutes before we had to leave. On or way to the car, we saw a volunteer we knew that was driving a cart. He was nice enough to drop us off at my car. Collin was happy about this because he was really tired and did not want to walk. 

He ended up being 47th overall and 27th in his age group for his division. That's great!  He went around telling people came in 4th. Your mother felt that way to him. He said it's because he passed a bunch of people up on the bike and on the run. Well he did, because he was 66th  on the swim and ended up 38th on the bike so he did pass up a lot of people. 

               On the way to the baseball game, we stopped to get breakfast because neither of us had eaten before the race.  He choose a large hamburger. I bet he was hungry!

The Astros played a good game but just could not get the hits they needed for the win. They ended up losing by 2 runs.  We were still proud of them for coming in 2nd place in the bronze division. During the trophy ceremony at the end of the game, the coach announce to our team and the other team that not only did Collin play a baseball game today, he competed in a triathlon this morning. That got him more tears than most of the other boys on either team. He was pretty excited about that!  After the game, the entire team headed to a local Mexican restaurant to celebrate. 

 

         It did not stop there!  We all came home a rest before Phase 3 of the day. Ha!  Collin headed to a birthday party that turned into a swim party. He looked like he has a great time. Don't you think?

 While Collin was playing at the birthday party, went to a flight museum gala with friends. We had a great time last year, so we were both looking forward to it. Don't we dress up really nice especially for the day that we had?