After yesterday’s Olympic Trials event in Tuscaloosa, two of the three Olympic team berths for USA’s Women’s Triathlon have been filled. Laura Bennett (who is featured in the video below) qualified at the first of three events, while yesterday Julie Swail Ertel secured her spot. There is one more spot up for grabs later in June. You can read the detailed race coverage at Slowtwitch.com - sounds like it was an exciting day!

USA Triathlon has produced a really neat video showing a triathlon from start to finish using various clips from the 2007 men’s and women’s events. I found the video at Triathlete Sara McLarty’s site.

As a former swimmer and a high school cross country runner, I did a few sprint triathlons (shorter distances) in college. They were a great way to test the triathlon waters for the casual athlete. Plus training for multiple sports can be a lot of fun.

This commercial called Supermarket from the Canadian Hockey Association does a great job of turning the tables on us as parents! In the commercial one mom accidentally bumps another mom with a grocery cart. They moms are apologetic and very cordial. However, the little girl isn’t quite so. I’m not going to ruin it for you - you have to watch it yourself.

It makes you think, doesn’t it?

The other night I saw the best commercial from USA Hockey on parenting and athletes and went looking for it on YouTube today. Before I could find it, I found this one instead and oh is it priceless!

I’ll post the parenting one shortly - be sure to check back in.