Quintana Roo Sports Barn Mini Triathlon results
Monday, 11 August 2008 | 150 readers so far
Trevor Snyder at the Quintana Roo Sprint Triathlon
I participated in and completed my first ever mini-triathlon on yesterday. The Quintana Roo Sports Barn Sprint Triathlon had quite a bit of personal meaning for me because it was an opportunity to measure the results of recent lifestyle changes I have been pursuing.
Dietary changes. Sleep habit changes. Attitude changes. Quitting smoking. I wanted to know if these changes were paying off in increased health. They certainly are. I am not a top competitor, but I am holding my own, and now I have a yardstick to measure my own personal progress. I came in 289th out of 611 participants in the triathlon.
I need to work on my swim time, my transitions and my general conditioning, although I met my personal goal of completing the event in an hour. Time to get ready for the next one, which is double the distance in every event and only two months away. The Sunbelt Cohutta Springs Triathlon feels a little intimidating. Thinking of how tired I was after half that distance, I cannot imagine what I’ll feel like after a 1/2 mile swim, a 16-mile bike ride and a 4-mile run. Only one way to find out and that is by participating in the triathlon.
1 August 11th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Daniel Patrick says:
I’ve considered training for a sprint triathlon myself. As a suggestion, I’ve heard very good things about the Total Immersion Swimming method as well as POSE method running.
For all around conditioning, I believe that there is no better methodology than CrossFit.
http://www.posetech.com/pose_method/
http://www.totalimmersion.net/
http://www.crossfit.com
2 August 12th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Trevor says:
I’ve heard of Crossfit but haven’t actually tried it…yet.
3 August 19th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Ron Howard says:
That’s pretty impressive. I also competed in this sprint triathlon. This was also my first. I did it to prove something to myself and to give myself a kick start to getting in shape. I smoked heavily for 30 years and recently lost part of lung but managed to finish 561. I’m hooked and plan to finish in under an hour next year.
Keep it up!
4 October 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 am
ahmed says:
its good to know that u ve made changes to ur lifestyle and have taken health into consideration. keep it up dude..