Texas Sprint
April 13, 2008,
Aquarena Springs, San Marcos, Texas
500 Yard Swim-14 Mile
Bike-3 Mile Run
I wrote an article on this
one: A
Good Day, which more fully explains the setting and events. But the endgame is that it was 40 degrees
with a north wind at the start. The
constant water temperature of Aquarena Springs of seventy-two seemed like it
would be cold as I thought about it the day before. Now, in the cold wind, it sounded pretty good
just to get in the water. I was right. Seventy-two
degrees felt like hot tub water. The
swim was amazing. The water was more
than gin clear. As I looked down into
the deep water during the swim, it seemed as if I were suspended in air rather
than water, that I might fall from whatever was holding me up there.
It was a muddy swim exit and
a long run on bare feet, over a rock-strewn driveway and parking lot.
The bike course headed into
the cold north wind going out on the bike. Being wet from the swim I, as well
as other participants, became very cold,
very quickly.
The run was a curb jumping,
limb dodging affair on an unspectacular course. The people putting it on were
students in the local triathlon club and I think there were doing the best they
could at the moment. It was a relatively
small event and I won second in my age group.
(see A Good Day)
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