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Rockman Swimrun 2023 Race Report

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It started with a promposal. In 2018, Trista sent me this photo. This is an amazing time capsule. We're not using ANY of that gear anymore. Quite the opposite. We did our first swimrun  in early 2018, and we fell in love with the sport immediately. Completely hooked. We wanted to do them all. We mostly chose our bucket list races based on photos, and when we saw all the videos Marcus had created and shared, we knew we needed to do this race. But we were brand new to swimrun, and knew it was too soon to do something of that magnitude in 2018. And my husband and I were already planning to do our 20th anniversary bike adventure from London to Stockholm in 2019, which would eat basically all my available vacation. So 2020 it was! I obviously accepted her promposal immediately. We got a coach in late 2019 and started training. We were committed. And then, well, 2020 happened. And  Rockman didn't happen. And then 2021 happened. And Rockman didn't happen. But definitely 2022 for