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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Nautica New York City Triathlon

Like my initial interest in doing a triathlon, it started as a joke. My training buddy mentioned that she and her neighbor were thinking about doing the New York City triathlon. I asked the obvious question: Where is the swim?

When she responded it was in the Hudson River I laughed. However the more she talked about it, the more interesting it sounded. In fact when I got home I looked it up. Then I told the Big Giraffe. He was born and bred in NYC. The more he thought about a swim in the Hudson the more he laughed. In fact when he found out that I was serious about it he was surprised. However, the more he heard about it the more fun he thought it would be. The catch was that registration opened at 12:01 am, and there were only 3,500 slots. The website said that last year the race sold out in 22 minutes.

On Halloween night I had a flashback to getting Eric Clapton tickets in high school. Alarms were set and each friend tried her best to get through on the phone. Then we tried to get through to each other that we had gotten the tickets so as to not end up with several hundred dollars worth of tickets. Only technology and our age have changed. This time alarms were set just in case we nodded off...hey we're old now! We each sat at our laptops waiting for the clock to light up with 12. Unlike high school, we even enlisted our spouses to help. The Big Giraffe was able to get into the site, enabling me to abandon my computer. Phew! The race sold out in 7 minutes this year! Unfortunately my buddy's neighbor was not able to get through, but the cousin with whom she had been planning on racing also didn't get in which overall they were happy about because this way they can do another race together .

I like the website for this tri. It claims that a bag of Cheetos was able to complete the swim course in 25 minutes. A friend who's done it before believed it. She said that the current is so strong that you have to hold onto a rope when you enter the water until you start.

And this will be my first Olympic distance tri. For those of you who are doing the race as well, I will quote the website and say "See you July 18th in the Hudson!"

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: There is nothing crazy about swimming in the Hudson; running 6 miles through New York City in July after swimming in the Hudson and biking is another story.

Labels: Exercise and Fitness

posted by Alex Elliot @ 6:12 PM 2 comments

2 Comments:

At 11/04/2009 9:57 PM, Jen of A2eatwrite said…

More power to you! I don't know about that Hudson water, though. Whoa.
At 11/16/2009 8:06 AM, Goofball said…

it does sound cool to swim in the Hudson

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