Liz

We met at the Rocky Mountain Triathlon Club.  I am not especially athletic, but I joined on a whim after realizing I needed to make some friends who didn't drink all the time, and I needed to get in shape.  I found the club online, showed up at practice and stuck with it.  Patrick joined a couple months after I did.  He had signed up for a tri and needed some training direction, so a friend suggested the club.  The first night he was there was for group swim.  He joined the group afterward at dinner.  I think at some point during dinner I said something like "we are all insane."  He liked it.  One day he asked if I wanted to go for a bike ride, so I said yes.  We rode 25 sweaty miles, then talked for an hour (while I got super sunburned!) before going for breakfast.  He paid, it was a date!  We've been fairly inseparable ever since.  A year and a half later, at the end of a trip to Olympic National Park we were on the ferry back to Seattle and he asked me to marry him.  I now have this beautiful ring and and even more beautiful fiance.  We're not perfect, but we're perfect for each other!