We ran, we biked, we prayed, we ran some more, we cursed whoever thought of signing us all up for this ;), but in the end we all felt like WARRIORS!
Today, Saturday January 3rd, 12 of my boot camp ladies and myself became duathletes!
Whew! It was crazy tough and awesome!
Although we had been practicing together over our long holiday break, race day threw a few curves at us that we didn’t expect. 
Like the fact that the run was a trail run, not the flat paved roads we’d been practicing on.
We single tracked it 2 miles with 300 other people through sand, dirt, puddles, horse patties (gross) and hills that felt like mountains!
The 7 mile bike ride was next and although it was on a paved course, it had WAY more ups and downs than we anticipated. We all needed a crash course in gear shifting for that roller coaster ride. Ultimately some of the boot campers decided it would be faster to run their bike up the hills than to ride (next time we’ll practice that gear thing a little more).
The conclusion was another go round on that 2 mile trail run, only this time we all had to do it with a pair of legs that felt like rubber (this is where the cursing whoever talked us into this came in). There was no stopping now however and we all huffed and puffed and fell through across the finish line.
Mission accomplished!
All of the boot campers are at various stages of fitness. One of the participants had only been a member of boot camp for two weeks. Another camper has been in camp since March of ’08 and everyone else fell
somewhere in between.
Most of us beat the personal finish times we set for ourselves. But all of us felt like we had now raised the bar on what our bodies can do.
It’s funny, somewhere right in the middle of the whole thing you ask yourself why you ever decided to do this. But by the end your asking the organizers when the next one is! We all plan on returning in April to tackle the challenge again and hopefully knock some minutes off our time.
If you live in Elk grove or Livermore we’d love to have you on team Booty Boot Camp.
I’ll be your biggest cheer leader!
Stay focused
Sarai D. Jones