I grabbed my first win of the season yesterday – at the First Coast Kids Triathlon in Jacksonville! Actually, since I was around in Florida for some sea level training and St. Anthony’s (kind of) before Seoul I made my way up to Jacksonville to help out and be a ‘celebrity big kid’ for the second year in a row. With more than 1000 kids racing the First Coast Kids Triathlon is the largest kids triathlon in the United States, and each age group gets assigned a few ‘big kids’ to help them out. The celebrities, as they call them, range from firefighters, police sergeants, or navel officers to Ironman finishers and myself, the professional triathlete. The kids look like they have a ton of fun and hopefully we make it a little better! Later on after all of the kids age groups finish all of the big kids race each other. As the only triathlete in the field who calls it his profession I was picked by most to take home the title.
I helped out the 11-12 age group this year.
In other news I am on my way to Seoul for the second round of the World Championship Series. Training is going well so I can’t wait to see what I can do!
Jarrod, Alicia and me on the early A.M. Orlando to San Fran flight.