Tsunayoshi's Journal: Xterra Richmond Sport Race

I have never had any intentions of running a triathlon in my life, I am not all a good swimmer. One length of the pool has me gasping for breath if I attempt any sort of decent speed. This is why I was planning on one or two off-road duathlons this year (mountain biking/trail running), one of which is the Xterra EX2 race in Rocky Gap, MD.

So what happens tonight? Less than 2 hours ago I attended a Xterra informational session headed by 2 locals who placed 2nd and 5th in their age group at world's last year in Hawaii. I won via raffle a free entry into the Sport level Richmond Xterra East Championship. Well, tecnically my wife, who has no desire to do any of this crazy outdoors stuff I started, won the entry but I am using it. Then they raffled a Pro level entry, which I won, but I passed it up since I already had the Sport via the wife.

The entry is non-transferable and my name has already been sent to the race registrars to send me my forms. I guess I will be running my 1st triathlon come June. Time to start hitting the local rec center pool and get working on that swimming.