Tri...what?!

Friday night we stayed at Collie and Zach's house in Heber to ride along with them to the Salem Spring RaceTri that we were going to on Saturday morning.  Ryan and Zach went fishing, while me and Collie stayed home with the boys and caught up on our shows that we love! 

Collie was up bright and early Saturday morning to head down to Salem with her neighbors.  On her way to their house her bag got caught in the handlebars and she was flipped off her bike.  She brushed it off even though her elbow was hurting like crazy and went down to the race.  A few minutes before we were going to leave the house Zach got a call from Collie that she wasn't going to do the race, her elbow hurt too bad.  We were all sad about that and drove down thinking she wasn't going to do it. 

We find everyone at the race and notice that Collie isn't there with everyone else.  I asked my dad where she was and he said that she was in the water about to start.  We were all shocked and hoping that she would make it ok.  We watched for Josh to come out of the water, which he did and a while later, Collie came out of the water.  She looked like she was in so much pain and said later she couldn't move her arm at all. 

The next two events were fun to watch and I was so proud of my siblings for doing this.  We were all watching for Collie to make sure she was ok in the bike and run.  During transition Josh would always ask how Collie was doing.  One thing that really touched me was while we were waiting for Collie to finish her run Josh disappeared.  When we finally see Collie coming around the corner, Josh was with her.  He had gone back to make sure she was doing ok and run the last little bit with her.  I wasn't suprised he did that at all and it brings tears to my eyes just remembering that sweet scene of them together.  The whole fam was so proud of them!  That day they Swam 874.89 yards, biked 13.5 miles and ran 3.1 miles.  Next month they are competing in the Spudman Tri - and you better believe we will be there cheering them on! Update on Collie - that afternoon she still wasn't able to move her arm at all so they went to the Dr's.  Come to find out she fractured the radial head in her elbow....she is one tough cookie!