In my quest for new challenges and to enjoy and push my fitness, I signed up for some triathalons this summer. I did the first one on June 8th down at Virginia Key, part of the Key Biscayne Mack series. I had a great time and my time was respectable. I finished it in 1:10:33 which placed me 5th place in my age category of Male 55-59, 118th overall out of 256.

New Bike! I'm really excited since I finally bought a bike that isn't a bad joke. I bought a new bike which is a modern racing bike. It's almost 10 pounds lighter than my old bike. I didn't got to crazy as in I stayed with aluminum and didn't go with a carbon fiber. But, if I keep at it (and if my company stays solvent), I might get myself a carbon fibre one soon.
My previous bike was one that I had swapped for and it turns out to have been 25 years old. I put toe clips on the old bike and use to do both the biking and the run wearing running shoes.
Here's the results of previous triathalons. I did two two years ago and a few a few years before that. My time this time was actually better than the previous one: 1 hour ten minutes this time versus one hour seventeen minutes on my last one. I have no idea why. This course might have been shorter or the conditions better. I think in both cases, I placed the middle of my group although I have moved up a group since my previous efforts. And by up, I mean that I moved up to the 56-60 age group.
By the way, the pictures from the triathalon last year were taken by my wife's nephew who is a great photographer. Anybody want to go take pictures at the next one?
2014 Mack Cycle Triathlon Trilogy #1 (.25s-10b-3.1r) Race Results for John Edelson Male 55-59 on 06/08/2014 | ||||||
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Swim | T1 | Bike | T2 | Run | Total | |
Time | 0:10:10 | 2:30 | 0:27:41 | 2:07 | 0:28:06 | 01:10:33.96 |
Pace/Speed | 0:40:40 | 17.3 | 09:03 | |||
Cat Place | 2/8 | 6/8 | 3/8 | 5/8 | 5/8 | 5/8 |
Cat % | 86 | 29 | 71 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
Sex Place | 88/171 | 124/171 | 75/171 | 129/171 | 97/171 | 93/171 |
Sex % | 49 | 28 | 56 | 25 | 44 | 46 |
OA Place | 114/256 | 185/256 | 89/256 | 185/256 | 128/256 | 118/256 |
OA % | 56 | 28 | 65 | 28 | 50 | 54 |
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