Fort Collins FAST Winter Swim Meet, Echo Mountain Sledding, Yeti Chase 5k and Loveland Snowboarding

Fort Collins FAST Winter Swim Meet, Echo Mountain Sledding, Yeti Chase 5k and Loveland Snowboarding  1

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Carly swam the 1000 Free for the first time and I got to hold the cool timing counters.  There was only 1 other 12 year old swimming the 1000.  She did great and kept the same pace for the whole event.

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She also swam 200 IM and 500 free.  She took off time in both events but came shy of making State.

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We stayed at the Hampton Inn in Fort Collins so Carly could swim on Saturday too.  We zonked out hard and ate breakfast the next morning and had to be back at the pool by 6:40am.

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She swam 100 IM, 50 fly, 100 free, and 50 breast.  She took off time in all the events but only qualified for State in 50 breast.

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On Sunday, we went to Echo mountain for tubing.

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It was a beautiful day and we drank hot chocolate and coffee while waiting for our reservation.

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We did some solo sledding but it was much more fun to connect our tubes together.

It was also fun to go on our stomachs.

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They had a moving belt to move us to the top, which made it much easier to go down a bunch of times.

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I ran the Yeti Chase 5k which is an event that I have ran 5 times.  Unfortunately, I am getting slower.

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But, I can still win the old people age group and take pictures with the yeti.

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It was really cold in the morning but it warmed up by the time of my race.

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I hadn’t raced since triathlon season so I wasn’t used to the pain.

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I took the day off to go snowboarding in Loveland.

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Lola wanted to come so I put her little coat on and let her hang out in the car while I boarded.  I came out a couple times to let her out to go potty and get some water.

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There were no lines and no traffic so I managed to get 17 runs in, which is a new record for me.

Location: Colorado, USA

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