2009-09-08 09:54:05 -

TERI HATCHER is preparing to take on a triathlon, as she ticks off all the challenges she wants to complete before she dies.
The Desperate Housewives star is following in the footsteps of Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman's characters in 2007

movie The Bucket List, by aiming to do everything she wants in life.
Her first challenge is a triathlon, which will raise money for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Hatcher is also keen to flex her musical muscle as well - she is desperate to learn the guitar and dance professionally.
She reveals to People.com, "I want to learn to play a couple of songs on the guitar. I want to learn a few of those fancy dances from one of those Dancing with the Stars teachers."