8th Annual Nature Coast Twilight Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

Brian and I took off together....walked out nice and slow and then took a dive. Got out a few meters and then felt the seaweed on my hands, arms and legs.......freaky feeling. I looked beside me and there was Brian and he was feeling the same as I but we continued.

found bike with no problem...worried since I was using Ginas and not familiar with it but I was racked on the end and we counted the isle once we came into transition and that worked.

Acutally I felt pretty good on the bike considering it wasnt mine. I had riden 2 hours and 20 min this morning on the bike so I had gotten use to it real fast! Brian passed by me on the bike but I kept him in site. Didnt see Jeff at all on the bike but I was pretty focused and wanted to do the best I could being that I havent even raced a sprint in 3 years. I passed alot of people and I did see a girl with an A on her calf pass me but I told myself I would catch her on the run if I didnt catch her by the end of the bike.

Fast transition.....all I had to do it rack the bike take the helmet off and put on my hat. I did wipe my face cause of the salt from sweat and water still was near my eyes.

I took off kinda fast cause I was having so much fun but slowed it down when I came to the realization that I wasnt breathing but panting! Since I had a very quick transition I got ahead of Brian here and then he came by me on the run.....he said didnt I pass you on the bike? Im like yeah but I didnt have to change shoes in transition so it was fast. I kept him in site on the entire run but couldnt catch him. I did manage to find the girl with the A on her ankle just before the turn around.....took over her and gave Brian a high five as we passed at the turn around. I kept the pace and felt pretty good. I took a sip of water and that was all....I kept thinking about the 10k race where I was 1 hour and 3 seconds and if I didnt take the water breaks I would have been under 1 hour and being that this was only a 3 mile run and the girl with the A on her calf was right behind me somewhere I wasnt stopping at all. The last mile I was in a pretty good zone....but I kept thinking that girl is right behind me breathing down my neck and if I dont go just alittle faster for this last half mile she is gonna come up beside right at the end and sprint for the finish and kick my ass. It didnt happen and I stayed in my zone.

Got a water and then Brian, Jeff and I had a beer. We took the stuff back to the car and went for the awards. Want DQ icecream after the race so bad...we started discussing this at 3 in the afternoon but wouldnt you know it was closed by the time the awards were over. We had to have ice cream now so we headed to a grocery....ok so they are closed at 10pm Sat nite for inventory...great now where....there is another grocery down the road so off we go. YEAH.....it was open....each of us got our own pint of icecream....there is a pyramind picture in my album...low fat ice cream on the bottom.


This was so much fun. The race directors even made the awards fun for everyone. They had some trivia some contest and involved the whole crowd. Jeff kicked ass at the push up contest but the guy that did the most.....he did cheat! he didnt go all the way down but nobody was gonna call him out cause it was for fun....but Jeff had a wonderful cheering squad. I heard one dude say "damn if that dude would have done them like the other guy he could have done 800!" hehehe. The ladies too were enjoying the view.