Warning: The following blog post may contain spoilers. It may also contain extreme creative liberties. I apologize for nothing. But if you haven’t read the Hunger Games trilogy, I highly recommend checking it out!
Last weekend I traveled to the North Georgia mountains for some bike riding with friends. It wasn’t my best showing, exercise-wise, so I had to make up for it with some good old fashioned imagination.
I decided to become Katniss Everdeen – heroine of the Hunger Games. If I wasn’t going to be fast, at least I could entertain myself by shooting things with my bow and arrow.
My teammates (at least the ones who sometimes admit to loving the Hunger Games) also took on new identities:
Just like the books, Finnick, complete with his trident and good looks, kept things classy:
And it was Haymitch to the rescue when things got really bad:
President Snow was the oppressive dictator of my triathlon life. And I blamed him for everything, even though my struggles weren’t really his fault.
But in the end, just like Katniss, I survived. It wasn’t pretty, but miles are miles. And fingers crossed the odds will be more in my favor on race day!
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IMPORTANT AND VERY SERIOUS SIDE NOTE:
The Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships start tomorrow!!! The meet is in Auburn, Alabama, and my alma mater, the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs, are set to have a great meet! I’m predicting National Championship #5. GO DAWGS!!!!
If you like to follow really fast swimming check out the meet results here.
