1:24:13

That is my Sprint distance triathlon finishing time, more or less. I lost the timing chip on the water, which is a pain in the ass and the reason I had no idea of my real finishing time until now. I had a rough idea, of course,  and I was nearly sure it was below 1h30m, but I could not be sure(swimming in the pool is not AT ALL the same as open water swimming so my pool times were a very rough estimation of my open water times). I finished 179th of 366 on my category and 242th of 521 on the general, which is not bad; after all, I was doing my first tri, I had not trained that much on the bike mainly due to a lack of bike and I hadn't run in like three weeks because of my left knee(but I think I could have finished the Olympic distance, suffering a lot, but I would have finished below 3h :) ).

Given that I know my total time now and I know that the bike took 40 minutes(actually 40m30s is more likely, I should have actually practised the timing on the forerunner before the actual race which would have avoid, among others things, a risky turn that could have finished my race and smashed my face...). Anyway, the forerunner time is 39:07 but you have to add a minute and a half because that's more or less how much it had passed when I realized my timer was still counting as "T1". That makes 40:30 for the bike(not bad, given that it was the first bike outdoor bike ride I had in like a year and I had never ridden a road bike before). The run was not my fastest, but it was not my slower 5km either, 23m45s(after 750m swim and a 20km bike ride). Stupidly enough, Garmin connect does not support for multisport mode and I don't have the transition times at hand now. But the first one took me like 3 min and the second like 1min, I think. That makes, 4 min on transitions(really bad, but putting my shirt on wet turned out to be very tricky). That makes for a total of 68m15s for anything but the swim and hence a swimming time of 16:02 approximately. By looking at the results list and finding someone with a similar time that means I came out of the water positioned around 125th. Which, given that I think it counts the people in the first, fast, wave too, it's not bad. But I'd swear that I came out of the water top 20 of my wave. Anyway, next time I'll be more careful with the damn stupid chip(and I'll be getting my own fat velcro strap).

Times aside, it was an awesome day, although my brother got a bit bored with all the waiting and specially when I was racing. There was a lot of people and the Olympic distance guys and girls were awesome. And, after all, I got a new PB :).

Next one: Olympic distance on August 17th :)(I have not registered yet, but that's very likely to happen).

PS: I lost my sport climbing virginity last Sunday, in Portland, I did my first outdoors(and ever actually) lead with an F4 climb :) (I need to find it's name on the guide).

2nd PS: I should read a book from time to time so my English stops free falling into such rubbish.

A big blank canvas... with some scribbles

It says: Lanzarote, Kona, Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc and Marathon des Sables.

The rest: time will tell, there's no hurry. I have plenty of years to do it and I plan to reach triple figures.

PS: I finished my half-marathon in 1:50:30. I am very proud of the result even though I run slower than in the first one, although I finished much stronger. Now, I'll be racing my first triathlon in six days, in the city that I was born. A place that has a special colour. It's a sprint one, the shortest possible one, but as I say, I have the rest of my life to build up the distance.