This is another super sprint race that I did a couple weeks after The Rookie. I originally was not going to do this one but I had talked some friends who had never done a tri before into doing this one and they really wanted me to race this one with them. So I went ahead and signed up for it. Last year I placed 2nd in my age group, so I really didn't want to do it again because I didn't want to tarnish my first podium finish :-)
This is a 200m pool swim, 10 m bike, and 2 mi run. I had a goal of finishing this race in under an hour since last year I did it in 61 minutes. The swim is a snake style swim and I actually lined myself up pretty good because I didn't have anybody pass me and I only had to pass two people on the last lap of the swim. I ended up with a 4:42 swim. The bike course was changed up a bit from the year before but it's a mostly flat course with only a couple small inclines and I knocked it out in 35 minutes. Not as good as I wanted to do but I wanted to make sure I had a good run. The run is interesting because the first mile is up a gradual incline and then the 2 mile is downhill all the way. I did it in 18:24 (a little slower than last year but still faster than my previous race). I ended up with a total time of 1:00:09. Just shy of my goal of wanting to finish under an hour but I knocked a minute off my time from the year before. This is all I could have asked for. It earned me another medal - third in my age group. Not too shabby! And I forgot to mention - I missed 2nd place by 2 seconds!!
And all my friends who were competing n their very first triathlon had a great time and are already signed up for more!
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