The TRY-athalon

So I got swindled into a participating in a triathlon as part of a three man relay-team as the run portion.
Not only did I cost me $100 to run 6 miles but never have I felt like a bigger douch-bag then when I went to the number pick-up. See the triathlon relay is part of the normal triathlon, out of 4000 participants there are about 100 people doing it as a team. You are surrounded by great endurance athletes who will have really accomplished something and there you are standing around still hung over and looking fatter than you have in years. The average person in the relay is not doing it as a race but more as an experience. They are old, fat or both and after it's all set and done one dude puked.
From the rest of the athletes this is a feat, for the guy doing the uni-athalon this is about as masculating as shouting out during it's raining men.

So for $300 one guy gets to swim in the sewage that is the Hudson River, one guy gets to run 6 miles in the 95 degree humidity and one dude gets to lose sensation in his sack.
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