Tsunami Triathlon

Saturday, I competed in my Second Triathlon! I wanted to do one shortly after the first one I did, so this one was perfect! The Swim was only a 400 Meter, half of what my last one was and it was also in a pool, the bike was 12 Miles, and the Run was 3.3 Miles. The way they started was a little different from the last. They mixed up the Gender on who to start, but based it on the time you swim, so who ever was the fastest started First, and then every 10 seconds, they had another person jump in and so forth. I was up in the front, surrounded by Men, so that was a little intimidating, but once I got in and started swimming, I was actually catching up to the guys in front of me, so that was good!! No one was behind me the whole time Thank Goodness!!

The bike route seemed confusing when looking at it on the map, but once I started going, they had really good marks and people to guide us where to go, so it turned out great! Part of the Bike was on the New Legacy Trail and then wrapped around to go back to the Bountiful Rec Center. I really pushed myself to go faster on the bike!!

The Run is what I really wanted to improve on from my last Triathlon. My goal was to keep running and not stop!! Well, I DID IT!!! I never stopped!! The course was a rectangle which didn't have hills or anything, so that was nice!! It just inclined towards the end of the race. About 3/4 of the time, I had a guy running the exact same pace as I was, so he was my running buddy for a while! It was nice to have him with me because it helped me to not want to stop or anything!!

So overall, I did really well!! Unfortunately I can't find the results of my individual times, which I'll post once I get them, but the total time I did the race, was about 1:25:00. Not sure on the exact time, but that was what I remember! Another cool thing though is that I got 5th place out of my age 25-29 Division!! My friend Emily got 4th, so we are quite proud about that!!!

Doing these Triathlons are Amazing!!! It's such a good feeling to accomplish them!! I will be doing 2 more this year, The Herriman one in August and then the Lake Powell one in October!! My Sister Amie is planning on doing that one with me, so I'm way excited!!! As for now, I'm going HardCore on my P90X!! Wish me luck with that!! It kicks your Booty!!!!