I only seem to be posting about Triathlons these days. Guess I’m not doing much else, other than working and using my new camera.

Anyway, today–in accordance with my yearly resolutions–I entered the Silicon Valley Long Course Triathlon.

At 66-miles long, the course is a few miles shy of a half iron man:

The swim is 1-mile, but two laps. So you have to run out of the water, sprint down the beach, and dive back in. The horizontal-vertical-horizontal transition nearly made me barf. This leg took under 30-mins.

The bike is 56-miles, and takes you all the way to Gilroy and back. It’s a pretty flat ride so most of the time was spent in aero-position which I’m not yet used to. I really didn’t feel like eating on the ride, so had to force down my power bars. Other than that it was a smooth ride and took around 2-hours 40-mins.

The run is 9-miles and flat. My right foot was completely numb for the first 2-miles. I was averaging between 7:30 and 7:45 min/mile splits, which isn’t too bad after the ride and considering it was only the 2nd time I’d run that distance since the San Jose half-marathon last year. My time was about 1:10.

The official results aren’t online yet, but my overall time was 4-hours 21-minutes. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but had estimated around 5-hours. So, not a bad first time. It wasn’t as cardiovascularly intense as the Olympic distance events but I certainly feel more exhausted afterwards. 70.3 next??