Nolensville Kids Triathlon

Last Saturday Carter did the Nolensville Kids Tri.  It was a crazy busy weekend for him but he still did great (first week of school, Nashville Sounds game Friday night, soccer and baseball practices Saturday morning, and Tennessee Titans game Saturday night).

This race was the third kids tri Carter did this summer.  Each one is slightly different with the length of each section.  This one was a 100 yard swim, 2 mile bike, and 0.7 mile run.

Carter getting ready to jump in the pool ...

I got this picture off the race's facebook page ...

Carter looked so good swimming!  He's finally found an efficient stroke.  But it's been a month since swim team so 4 lengths of the pool is long after not practicing for awhile!

This year the kids had to run out of the pool through the zero-entry side instead of pulling themselves out on the side of the pool.  Carter is in the background of this picture running out ...

I just caught Carter coming out of the transition to start the bike portion.

And coming back from the bike ...

And Carter finishing the race ...

Carter finished in 7th place (out of 29) for 8 year old boys.  Here are his times:

Swim: 3:02 (Rank - 12th)

Transition #1: 1:01 (Rank - 4th)
Bike: 12:55 (Rank - 11th)
Transition #2: 0:35 (Rank - 9th)
Run: 5:12 (Rank - 3rd)

Total: 22:46

There were 350 kids that did this triathlon and it was the biggest of the three Carter did this summer.  He did awesome!

Before the tri started, there were six kids with disabilities that started a modified version of the race.  One of those kids was Cohen (the boy Carter was paired with for the Tri My Best Triathlon).  Cohen did absolutely amazing!  He did the entire race too!!!  And was at the finish line to cheer on Carter.  We love Cohen and his family and hope to stay in touch with them!

After the race, Carter got two medals.  One was for participating in this race and the other was for participating in all three kids triathlons this summer.  The second medal was really cool with race logo charms from each race he did.

There were 40 kids total that did all three races this summer.

Carter is already looking forward to participating in these triathlons next year!!!