PD Triathlon 9-10 Aug 2014

Date   :  9^th -10^th August 2014

Venue:  Avillion Admiral Cove, Port Dickson, Seremban

The following is a brief write-up of my second attempt at the PD triathlon Sprint and MY FIRST PD Triathlon OD Relay Event

Added Flavour

This year I decided to try both the Sprint and the Relay event. The Sprint was held on the Saturday 9^th August followed by the Relay event on Sunday 10^th August.

The distances to be covered for each event were:-

SPRINT (Solo)	OD RELAY (Team)
SWIM  - 750m	SWIM  - 1.5 km
CYCLE  - 20km	CYCLE  - 40 km
RUN    - 5km	RUN    - 10 km

For the sprint, both of us (Edward and I) thought that it should not be difficult as we had gained confidence from last year. This year I had a target time to complete within. I had to improve on my previous Sprint time.  Boon on the other hand decided to skip the Sprint and went straight for the Full Olympic distance (OD) event this year.

For the relay, we thought we had a runner but our original runner pulled out and initially both Edward and I decided that one of us had to do the 10 km running. It was decided that the person doing the swimming would be the runner as he would have time to rest. We had not decided who was to swim in the relay until the day before event day.

Hence it was only the three of us who were confirmed for this year's PD Tri 2014.

The training this year was again rather sporadic. We did our training separately barring once where we met up for a swim at the Chin Woo swimming pool after work. The pool was smaller than the public pool at Bandar Tun Razak, Cheras. It was not a conducive training pool.

The length of the pool was short.  Edward accidentally left his swimming googles behind on that particular day.

I did the rest of my biking and running near my home.

The Carbo dinner 

This year the families tagged along and I took a half day off work. We booked the same resort i.e. Methodist Church resort.  Boon and family decided to stay at Seri Malaysia.

This year’s carbo dinner was not as good as compared to last year. I suppose the rising cost of food caused the decrease in the quantity of the food.  There was not much variety in the menu.  Here I was telling the family that the buffet dinner should be good as everyone of us thought the food was good in 2013.  It was a bit of a let-down this year.

The venue for the dinner was changed also. It was in a much smaller room. Went for two carbo-dinners Friday and Saturday.  Edward came from work and was late for the Friday dinner.  Boon came over on Saturday night as he was taking part in the OD event only. 

A) SPRINT EVENT DAY (9^th August 2014)

The next morning Ed and I left early . This time I didn’t have breakfast. I had come prepared though. I brought along extra power bars.

This year the body painting was changed to the “stick on” type. There were uncertainties from participants on how to apply the numbers onto our arms. Anyway we manage to figure out how to stick the numbers on our arms.

Attached below is a short video attempt at capturing the atmosphere on that morning...

Below are a series of photos indicating the events of that morning..

organisers tent -showing us how to apply the stick-on numbers

the transition area for the bikes

me trusty mongoose

Sprint Swimming

at the starting point of the swim.. all set to go

coming back to the beach from the swim

Ed landed on the dry land ..

Sprint Cycling 

the Bike-Out & Bike-In post

pushing bike out from transition area
to the Bike-Out area.
Uncle Chan seen busy relocating cone

At the Bike-Out area - ready to mount bike

cyclists coming back and turning right to the transition area 

cyclist coming back from the 40 km ride

Sprint Running

Edward and new found friend running to the finishing post

last burst to the finish line

almost there...

mission accomplished !!  medal on neck

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B) OD RELAY EVENT DAY (10^th August 2014)

At the eleventh hour we found a replacement runner.  KK a friend of mine is a marathoner and was willing to fill up the runner spot in the Relay for us. That was a relief for the two of us as both Ed and I did not like to run. It was decided then that Ed would swim and I would cycle.

In summary:
Name        : Bucket Team

Swimmer  : Ed

Cyclist      : Me

Runner     : KK

Our special guest runner planned to drive to PD from KL on Sunday morning itself.  We reckoned that the runner would have ample time to wake up on Sunday and drive up to PD.  Edward had not met the KK and since I was the cyclist, Ed was worried that he might arrive after I had started the cycling leg and KK would not know where to find us.  Anyway KK arrived early and I  introduced him to Edward.

Swimming

Edward was faster than I  had anticipated.

Cycling 

I was slower than I had anticipated

Running

KK was damn fast.!! 

C)Results

Relay
Swim  : 00:51:11
Cycle  : 01:31:10
Run     : 00:44:37
Overall Time : 03:07:00

Sprint
Swim  : 00:34:48
Cycle  : 00:46:37
Run     : 00:39:26
Overall Time : 02:00:52