Fast Triathlon Victory!!

Buzios beach, Rio de Janeiro hosted the Fast Triathlon last Sunday, the biggest TV station in Brazil broadcast the competition live.
This triathlon is made for TV, and it is a team race (6 countries with 3 athletes on each team). 

We raced 250m swim, 4km bike and 1.2km run, with 15min in between; three times!

As the distance is short, the speed is fast, and the race is really intense!!

When we are lining up for the start, our arms and legs still hurting from the previous round!!

In the first round, I finished third, behind Alarza from Spain, and Buckingham from England. Brazil, also represented by Wesley Matos and Danilo Pimentel, trailed the Spanish by 9 points and the English by 4.

Although we saw the likelihood of winning the race unlikely, we were willing to do whatever it took to accomplish that goal! On the second round, I broke away on the bike, and held that nice gap during the run portion, taking the win!!
We passed the British team, but the Spanish held onto the lead by 7 points...

The third round started well with the 3 Brazilians exiting the water first, but soon we became a peloton of Brazilians, Spanish, English and Colombians. A strategy started to take form. We wanted a double Brazilian win. Wesley was able to build a nice gap on the bike. But each time I tried to break away, the opposing teams worked well to stay with me. So I worked to hold back the big pack!


As we went into the run, I wasn't sure if we could take the win, but then noticed a Brazilian running ahead of each Spaniard. In the end, Wesley won; I got seventh place; and I knew we had gained some points over the Spanish team; I just didn't know if it would be enough...


By one point we won it!!! Uhuuuuuuuu!! :-D

Final results:

1 - Brazil: 111 points
2 - Spain: 110 points
3 - Great Britain: 98 points
4 - Colômbia: 59 points
5 - Chile: 24 points
6 - South Africa: 19 points

As I did last year, I put my race suit up for auction to raise money for a worthy instituition named "Fazenda da Esperança" or in English "Farm of Hope" for the treatment of chemical dependency... The website is in portuguese but if interested, you can send me your offer by email ,(maurocavanha@hotmail.com) before February 22th.
Cheers!