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While no one ever successfully escaped from Alcatraz, I’m going to do it. After three years of trying, I got picked in the lottery for the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. I just got the email…

You are one of the lucky triathletes that have been selected as a winner the December 15, 2007 random drawing for a slot in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon to be held in San Francisco on June 8, 2008…

On June 8th, you will get to jump off a perfectly good boat into the frigid water of the San Francisco Bay, swim with 1800 of your best friends from Alcatraz to Little Marina Green. You will climb out of the water and run (with or without shoes) one half mile to the transition area, jump on your bike and ride 18 miles (most people say that it is all up hill) and then run 8 miles (under the Golden Gate Bridge, through the sands of baker beach, up the infamous sand ladder and back to Marina Green to the finish line. What a great way to spend your life.

This has got to be the most well known triathlon in the country. It is one of the few times that a chump like me can participate in the same event, right along side the sport’s elite athletes.

So on June 8, me, Gavin and 2,000 other athletes will jump off a barge to swim 1.5 miles, bicycle 18 miles and run 8 miles.

I am so excited!