National Capital Sprint Triathlon

Well, another race weekend gone by, and another triathlon completed! Ian and I travelled to Ottawa to take part in the National Capital events - me in the sprint triathlon, and him in the sprint duathlon - his first duathlon ever! We'd both set a time of 90 minutes as a goal finishing time, and both managed to beat that time! Ian beating it by 5 minutes, while I beat it by 2 minutes. I'm quite pleased to see another 5 second per 100m come off my swim time and a whole 30 seconds per km come off my run time! I know I can do better in the swim also - I misjudged where I started from in the pack and was reasonably far back and spent the entire swim finding my way around other people's feet - the race started the men off 5 minutes before the women's pack, and I managed to pass some of the men in the water. There's nothing like the boost you get from passing the guys when you've started that far behind them - even if they are very splashy swimmers and what was supposed to be your gulp of air turns into a mouthful of water... still lessons learnt! The Toronto Island try-a-tri is coming up in under 2 weeks now, so at I know for that one, get into the front of the pack for the swim, and hold it there! I'm going to be training on intervals from now until then - this is the race I need to eek out as much speed as I can in to be in with a chance of winning the grand prize from 7SYSTEMS. The goal is for at least 7% off last year's time - I've got designs on a percentage much higher than that... always the overachiever and all ;-)

I won't be on my own out on the Toronto Island course either - I've been hearing a lot from folks over the past 18 months about how I've inspired them, and a few are putting their money where their mouth is and joining me in the Toronto Island try-a-tri. I've written more about this on the SUGOI Brand Champions Blog.

With any luck I should have some nice big numbers to post here after August 14th with the try-a-tri results!