First Triathlon Completed ....

This past weekend I completed my first Triathlon - Reston Sprint. It was a Sprint, so not long, but it was fun. I think I will do a couple a year to have goals to reach each year.

The race was a 400m swim, 20 km bike and 5 km run. My official finish time was 1:18:20. Everything worked great other than some challenges getting my clips in on my initial bike mount. I had what I felt was a GREAT bike ride (36 min for 12 miles) and the run was pretty standard (9 min mile). I passed a few people and only had two pass me. There was one guy that I frogged leaped with a few times and at the VERY end he came on me with a hundred or more yards left so I decided to turn it on. I sprinted (as best I could) for the last 100+ yards. The other guy was younger and had much longer legs and managed to keep ahead of me. I made the line but was just about ready to hurl. I held it in and was fine after an orange slice.

Again - it was fun - and I did better than I had expected - 140 of 418. Definitely will be doing it again next year - see if I can do better. To get ready - maybe some swim lessons and to keep up my routine of running and biking.

... cu