Giant Acorn International Triathlon 2017
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My wife had the great news to share with my several months ago that one of her good high school friends got engaged to be married and was going to have a bachelorette party. The only problem was that it was an out of town party and it was on the same day as the Giant Acorn triathlon that I had done the past two years. I told her it wouldn't be an issue since I had apparently forgotten to sign up, or at least I couldn't find my registration confirmation for the race, and now that she had plans, I just wouldn't sign up. On Wednesday I got an email from the event giving me the pre-race logistics. "That's funny," I thought, "Did I actually sign up for this race?" So I searched for myself on the event site and saw that I had a bib number assigned to me. My first reaction was, "How can I get out of doing this race?" I had just started a 10k training plan and had, as a matter of fact, done a my second hard workout of the week; an anti-t