Monday, October 30  

Triing To Get Better

Triing To Get Better

My son Jack and I completed the Noosa Triathlon yesterday. I did the 1.5 km swim and the 40 km bike ride, whilst Jack (14 yo) finished off with the 10 km run.

That's us left, about 10 minutes before the race.

It was Jack's first triathlon (aside from some really small kid's races) and he loved it.

And doing the triathlon did something really important for him - it got him to understand that he can do these sort of races. Because with close on 5,000 competitors in the race, it can be a very intimidating race.

But once we got into the thick of things - with registration, racking our bike, getting numbered and knowing where we needed to be by race time - he saw that organisers make it as easy as possible and that there are plenty of people to help.

Experience Helps In Triathlons & Business

Because once you've experienced something, it's so much easier to do it again and again.

And now Jack has done one of the world's biggest triathlons, he'll look at a transition area with anything less than 3,200 bikes and think "Heh, this race is smaller than Noosa - I can do this."


We Went Okay

We went okay - I did the swim (really tough, rough 1.5 km swim) in 30.06, then the 40 km bike in 1 hr, 24 mins, 58 secs (which included a very slow 5 min transition) and then Jack ran the 10 km in 57.41.

All up we did 2:52:46 - not bad for an old bloke and his kid. We've already planned how we can knock 10 minutes off that time next year! (4 mins off transition, 4 minutes off run, 1 min off bike, 1 min off swim).

Cheers

Brendon