Swimming, Biking and Running can't stop the SMUS crew

We all woke up in time for breakfast at 7:30 which consisted of toast, cereal, juice, milk, and Angie's favourite, lemon loaf! Then we all grabbed our things and met back in the lobby for a long talk about the day ahead of us. After the long talk we split into three vans, loaded the bikes, and headed off for the beach. Once we arrived at the beach, we unloaded the gear, we met up with the NOKY group and we ran through the course and tested out our bikes. We were told the routes of the bike ride, the run and the swim and after we biked to the beach, we started a warm up. Our swim was around 500 meters but against the NOKY kids, we had no chance. It was super fun to watch eachother play in the waves and pretend we were pros cough* cough* Mr. Doland. After we warmed up our strokes we all went to the starting line further down on the beach. We took our marks and we were off, or at least the NOKY kids were off. The Canadians were left in the wake of their waves and you could say we were very salty. It took us about six minutes to swim 500 meters. After the swim we all rushed to the bikes, put our clothes on, and prepared our bikes. A few minutes later we were all being tousled by the rocky path in our way of victory. After six grulling kilometres of rocky terrain, we reached the final leg of the race. The run was around one kilometre and it was easy to see everyone was really tired. We even had a small award ceremony where everyone was given a medal. Whether it was participation or first place, everyone was really proud they accomplished training with the NOKY crew. Tired and sweaty, we took out our slowly shrinking sandwiches and ate in the shade. We "popped into the vans" and drove back to the hotel for the hour of blogging in the afternoon.

-Amira and Matias