Just signed up!

Well after a quick discussion with my coach, I pulled the trigger and signed up for my first triathlon and signed up for the Superiorman short course. Well it will actually be the last triathlon of the season as it is at the end of August. My coach wants me to do a sprint and olympic distance before this.

Superiorman is a triathlon here in Duluth. It starts with jumping off a boat into the harbor to swim back to Bayfront park, then a long bike up and back along the shore, and then a run on the Lakewalk. They have two distances. They have the "Long course" distance which is a half ironman distance of 70.3 miles, and they have the "short course" which is 41.5 miles. I will be doing the short course which is a 0.5 mile swim, a 35.4 mile bike and a 5.6 mile run.

I am nervous and excited. I can't run that far (yet), it will be about 2 hours on the bike and I can't do much more than an hour now, and the swim will be COLD. I have several swimming friends that have done it and they encouraged me to do it too.