Sunday, April 12, 2009

TriFamily Sprint Triathlon

Completed my maiden Sprint Triathlon at MOE Changi Coast Adventure Centre this morning. This event was organized by trifamily members and they did a very good job in making sure that everyone is enjoying his/her race. Kudos to the organizers!

As usual, i arrived at the race site early so as to secure a parking lot. The weather was cooling and expecting rain in the late morning as reflected in the NEA website. Managed to meet some of the Sgrunners (Atomic, Frootloops, Jordan, Eliza, Weiming) participating in this event. Not to forget volunteers Hohorunner and Tigger.

The swim course was around 750m within the vinicity of the Centre, but was told by the organizers that the distance may be shorter as race start time was within the low tide timing. Nevertheless, the race began with David Tay, sounding the horn. I managed to remove my fear of swimming in the sea and began to swim smoothly. Completed my swim at around 16 mins ++.


Beginning of the biking phase

Subsequently made my way to the transition area and got ready for the 18km biking. I could only maintained at around 30 km/h throughout the biking phase. And almost collide with another participant as he made a illegal u-turn few hundreds meters before the u-turn point. I think i completed the bike course in around 35 mins.


Hydration first before my run

Next, a tiring 5 km run. I almost exhausted all my energy in the bike phase, but had to push myself in order to complete the race. Managed to maintain my cadence constant throughout the run and completed my maided sprint Triathlon in 1 hr 16 mins.Thereafter, the rain started to fall from the nimbus clouds, what a way to cool down.

To the Ending point of the Triathlon!

Next race, Tribob Triathlon which will be held on next sunday.

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