St. Paul Triathlon
Over a year ago I mentioned that I had decided to start training for a triathlon. Last month I finally did one, the St. Paul Triathlon. It was really shitty weather that day, I had to be there about 6:30 am and it was ~60 degrees and raining, which made the swim that much worse.
I finished in 1:48, which was below my target of two hours. The nice thing is that since I did really poorly in the swim and bike, theres plenty of room for improvement next time 
Ed Kohler said,
Wrote on September 19, 2007 @ 9:20 am
Nice work. It’s good to hear that you see room for improvement rather than saying, “I’m never doing that again.” Was the swim your least favorite leg?
ben said,
Wrote on September 19, 2007 @ 9:24 am
Ed, the swim was by far the worst. I had only practiced in a pool and swimming in a cold lake, with 40 other people all around me was WAY different than a pool
I ended up 3rd from last in the swim in my age group, but I would hope that in nicer weather I could do better.
Max said,
Wrote on September 19, 2007 @ 11:01 am
Hey Ben,
Couldn’t find an email so I guess I will just leave a longer comment you can delete later if you want.
I just signed up for this “local blogger” thing and your blog came up. I am a web designer/developer (which looks like you have done a little of) and I help run the blog at my martial Arts school in St Paul on University Ave.
I just though I would invite you to our open house this Saturday from 11am – 3pm since you are close by. I don’t know if you’re interested in trying out Martial Arts but I see you like to workout so maybe you would. If you want to do a blog post about it the open house that would be awesome.
The studios website is at http://www.stpaulksw.com and the blog I write is as http://www.stpaulksw.com/blog