This past Sunday our group participated in our first ever, local, sprint triathlon ... it was a perfect day (a bit windy), a great practice session (although really it was an actual race!) ... My goal was to break 1:30 for the .5 mile Swim, 15 Mile Bike and 5k run portion and it all worked out beautifully. I finished in 1:23:30 (which officially gave me the 21st spot out of 164 participants) and had to realize that my strongest event just might be the biking and not the running as previously anticipated - the problem with the run is that after the riding once legs are shot ... u run but u just feel like there is no power left at all - its not a nice feeling ... and the swim, well it was not pretty: the swim start is just a mess -- i got kicked in every imaginable place during the initial 50m of the swim - at which point everyone had passed me and I only had to battle the Bay and the Waves and not the hundreds of limbs that were are all over the place!
But overall a couple of things stood out: a) it just fun doing the whole race thing and switching between events -and i think there will be many more Sprint Triathlons in my future b) the event felt like it was held an der Ostsee (Baltic Sea) ... the weather, smell of the trees and the water all just felt like those warm summer days auf Ruegen und Umgebung c) my joy over, actually easily, breaking the 1:30 mark was put into proper perspective when i realized that one of the triathletes at the start was a 12 year old girl who finished the event in an amazing 1:28:43 - that just crazy and quite impressive!
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