In late January, early February Kindra decided she wanted to do her first triathlon. We signed up for a local race hosted by UCSD on Fiesta Island (Mission Bay - San Diego). It was a sprint triathlon - 500 meter swim, 12 mile bike, 3 mile run. It would not be easy, but with training was doable. As Kindra got a month into her training her goal went from simply finishing to beating a certain time. I would love to say that she decimated the time by over 14 minutes. Her strongest area was surprisingly her bike leg. She road on my mountain bike and had only really started biking in February (where she had run and swim for years before). Her strongest area going in was supposed to be the swim, but adrenaline and being her first race freaked her out and she did not have the swim time she wanted. As I said before, she had an amazing bike split and then ran a solid 5k run to not only finish her first triathlon, but to do it in a great time. I also raced (my first one since September of 02) and had an okay swim, a decent bike and a pretty good run. We had a great time and I was so proud of Kins!
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