Sunday April 5th, the Bangkok Triathlon took place. A triathlon in Bangkok?! Sure, there is a river and there are streets so why not, the city of Angels has what it takes, right?
They offered an option to do a Duathlon instead, which of course does not include swimming, only running and biking.
I honestly cannot understand why they insist on doing a triathlon here, swimming in the river? Biking the streets of Marvels? The traffic here needs it’s streets, and they can’t close traffic.
We had fun, we rode across a beautiful bridge, that just recently opened, and at the top you had a view of the whole city, a fairly smooth ride all the way the tricy parts were at the turn around point on the western side of the river, and coming back to T2 after having done the laps. At the end we had to cross one lane of traffic…
I had very heavy legs, on the first run, ‘5k’ done in 19 minutes, legs were even heavier on the 28 km ride, which took me 57 min, cramping up on the final ‘2.5k’ did that in 7.55.
A nice day in the sun!