After months of preparation and anticipation finally is show time. Our company participate in the 1st ever bali triathlon, my boss will do the 1.5 km swim, i will tackle the 40 km and our colleague will take the last part of 10km run.The weather was perfect on Sunday, was too nervous wake up in time for the dawn prayer, wanted to arrive in the registration center by 6:30 am (race time 8:00) but was ahead of time and came down earlier .The place is already buzzing with activity, pro athletes doing their warms ups, not so pro atheletes are going to toilet for their nervousness (its me!) 8 am sharp the horn blast!, 1st swimmer went to the water, its race time! my swimmer come at 8.35 (1st swimmer come out of the water by 8:22)
Timing chip handed over to me and off me gooooo. doing well in the 1st leg, but the 2nd leg wind and traffic element distracted my focus, leg cramp start to hit me 10km to the finish line, suck it up. Finished the 40km bike on 1 hr .27.55 mnts ( warm up test ride 1hr. 35 mnts) not bad for a guy on mountain bike hehhehehe The running took longer, cross the finished line 1 hr and 20 mnts later but overall we came in 21st of all the 37 participants. Not bad for bunch of weekeend atheletes, next year's triathlon, here we come!
