Louise jumps in at Chantilly Sprint

Chantilly Sprint - 26 August 2017 - Castle Triathlon Series

Race reporter Louise On the 26th of August 2017, for the first time of my life I completed a triathlon, the Chantilly Sprint triathlon. I am very new to triathlon. I had just come back from a one month holiday in the South of France where my training was limited to a few swims in the sea during which I painfully rotated between crawl and breast stroke, and told myself that the club’s swimming sessions would be extremely helpful and that I should definitely join the swim sessions from September :) I had initially registered for “The Condé” (800m/40km/8km) but a few weeks before the race I realized I was being a little too ambitious and changed for the Sprint distance (400m/20km/4km). I came back a little early from my holiday to be able to run this triathlon and I was so excited but at the same time quite stressed out since I didn’t feel prepared at all and I didn’t even have a wet suit or a tri suit. Actually I was so panicked that the day before I was still wondering what the heck I put myself into. To reassure myself, I watched videos from the past years showing gorgeous views of the Castle under a great sun, but when Stéphanie and I arrived at Chantilly on the morning of the race, there was so much mist that we couldn’t even see the castle! Saturday, 6am