K-Town Triathlon

I participated in the Long Course Triathlon in Kingston on 03 of August. The full report is posted on Running Mania forum. Here some highlights.

Stats:

Time: 3:40:05
Age Group: 8/22 Overall: 53/208

Swim 2000 m (+T1):
Time: 41:41 AG: 13/22 O: 79/208 pace: 2:06 min/100m

Bike 56.5 km:
Time: 1:39:48 AG: 9/22 O: 36/208 AVG speed: 34.0 km/h

Run 15 km (+T2):
Time: 1:18:37 AG: 11/22 O: 82/208 pace: 5:15


Short history and event's summary:

In June of last year i did my first triathlon. It was 750 meters swim followed by 19 km bike ride and 5 km run. The weakest part of my tri debut was swim. I was planning to do 50m/50m breaststroke/front crawl splits. It didn't work well. I did 80% of my swim in the breaststroke. My position in swimming wasn't bad (my breaststroke is fast) but I wasn't to happy about that swimming performance.

This year was different I went to Kingston for Long Distance Triathlon, which is 2000 meters swim, followed by 56 km bike ride and 15 km run. I started swim training early January of this year. I have learnt a new technique of front crawl called Total Immersion. I was training 3 times a week swimming approximately 190 km in 180 hours since January to the date of the race. I was going to this race confident that I can easy get through this swim in front crawl only. I have finished the swim relaxed, feeling that I could easy swim another 2 km without problems. I am very happy with my performance although I know that I could do it faster. With constant training I should be able to improve my time in my next swimming events.

Results
Some photos from the Race