Okay, so sorry for the bad pun. I am trying to do a better job blogging, and I just really wanted to post some different images and the play on words just sort of ties the two together. Well, sort of. And now I’m not even sure it is a pun at all. So much for that English degree!

So to give you some insight into life in our household, let me start by saying we don’t own a tv. Sure, we subscribe to Netflix and watch movies and tv (sometimes) through the internet. But there’s no background noise. Sure, there’s plenty of noise, but the tv does not factor in. So with no tv to watch, you’re wondering: “So what do they do with their time?”

Well, for starters, I’m chasing around two heathen wild children. Sometimes with the camera, and sometimes not. I run and train for half marathons in the hopes that some day I might truly consider myself a “runner” and not be pitifully slow.  And my husband works out. A lot. It’s pretty impressive. (He’s the disciplined one while I’m rolling up from HEB with a package of double-stuff Oreos.) This year he has really gotten into triathlon, and it’s been a lot of fun for the whole family.  The race-day atmosphere is really cool (and, well, to be honest, it gives me another outlet for photography!) and it’s a great example for our kids. He’s done several sprint-distance triathlons and is training for an Olympic and then a Half-Ironman in October. I totally am ready for him to complete the Ironman and get the tattoo–I think he should do the Kona so we get a trip to Hawaii, don’t you??

So we planned a fun tri-themed shoot and it only took about two months to finally make it happen. But –ta-daa!–both kids finally took a nap and here are the results. I’m glad my model was as excited as I was by the images. It was a fun session!

First you swim. Then you bike. Then you run. Easy peasy, right?

The swim distance for a sprint triathlon varies per event but is usually somewhere around 400-500 meters. You swim, like, 16 miles in an Ironman (actually, it is 2.4 miles, I think–4 km, maybe?)

Seriously, serious.

And now a transition to the bike:

More seriousness. Transition to the run:

(And people wonder how my 4-year-old learns to say to me while I’m running (pushing a double stroller with 60 lbs of kiddos in it): “You’re not training to win, Mommy! Run faster! Run super-fast!”.  It’s encouraging. Sort of.)

Meh, I’m trying something different for me.

All I can think about is that after you swim 2.4 miles (it might as well be “24″ miles for me–I swim like a weighted rock), then you bike 100+ miles (more reasonable since I used to be a cyclist) THEN you run a stinkin’ marathon afterward. It’s not called “Ironman” for nothing! Training for that is going to be a serious whole-family commitment!

Okay, and one last one:

There is so much “gear” you “need” (or that at least makes the transitions faster) for triathlon. I think I sort of geek out about workout gear! Clearly, we don’t have all the specific shoes but we’re getting there!

This really was a fun session to do! I really feel like you should “do what you love; love what you do” in your portraits, and this is definitely my husband’s passion!