the first one of the season | 2014

Today the triathlon season has been opened with its first race of 2014. Patrik was the only one racing, the rest of the family was his cheering squad. He was very excited for the last couple of weeks and couldn’t wait for the race day to come. He raced in the kids category: 8-11 years and this race was his first one riding a road bike. The distance for this category was:

• swim – 100 m
• bike – 3.75 km
• run – 1 km

It was quite cold in the morning even though the sun was shining.

Unfortunately I missed his swim because the athletes swam in a swimming pool and there was no way for me to run from there and still be able to catch him on the run out. The swimming pool is sort of disadvantage for taking photos during triathlons. Ivo was watching him and Katrin and I were waiting outside ready with my camera to catch him on his way from the swim to a transition for his bike ride.

Getting ready for this bike ride. He had a little bit of trouble to put his cycling shoes on because of his wet feet but at the end he was able to manage to put the gear on and to head off to the ride.

He was flying on the bike! We could see right away that his practices with the cycling club, he is in, are paying off big times.

And off to the last discipline.

Finishing strong with an amazing pace.

This kid will be well known one day, I can feel it! He definitely has it in his genes!

He finished 4th in his category: boys 8-11 years with a time of 17:42 (it’s a huge improvement from last year where his time was 22:00).

We are so very proud of him! GO, PATRIK, GO!!