20km Night hike done

I have finished the 20km Walk the Line Night Hike , which took place from Saturday to Sunday Night, here are some impressions it left with me .
Firstly really happy that I was able to finish it without too much of a struggle, I think that shows that my Fitness Level has improved quite a bit , the Hike itself was a mix out of everything , the first 8 km were really challenging ,really though terrain , with Boggy area's , with deep hidden Holes , Rain that didn't want to stop and one or two step enough Hills.
The second part of the Hike was more or less about finishing it , it was along a well worn path and therefor much easier to get through that, I did get cramps later on but I guess that was just because my feet were working quite hard to keep the balance.My Boots are not the best and if I do this next Year again I definitively will need to invest into a really nice pair of boots and probably a another backpack ,my Backpack is really nice and good but not ideal for a though Hike where you have to have enough emergency Equipment with you .
I guess I will do it again next year, I just really hope that we will have for a change really nice summer Weather on the other site if it really nice out there I might be eaten up by midgets .
So whats the plan now, I really want to do another triathlon and I found one that looks really nice and is at the end of July , that should give me some time to put in some more training and then do that Sprint Triathlon , in between I will have one or two Trail Races . I don't really see them as races ,chances are that I will finish last anyway but it's a good training for me

Night Hike ahead

tonight I'm doing the Walk the Line Night Hike, this is a 20km / 30 km hike through the Mountains organised by the Mountain rescue. So I guess I should be rather save,  I originally had signed up for the full option 30km but I have had a really a bad Case of Food poisoning last Week . I was not able to eat anything for a couple of Days, not a Diet I can recommend .
I lost nearly 5 pounds of weight but a huge amount of that was fluids and I still have not fully recovered from that .
So I have asked the organizers to move me to the 20 km option , which will be though enough .I did last year the 30km Night Hike and it has been the toughest thing I ever did in my life, I really hope that I have improved this Year on my Fitness so that it is not so extremely hard but i will see tomorrow.
To be honest now I just want to have this Hike out of the Way, after that I'm planning to do a 2-3 weeks intense Training Block for a couple of Triathlons I'm planning for the end of July beginning of August.
I'm actually looking forward trying to get as much as possible out of my body via Training so that I will be better prepared for those Triathlons.
I think that's the first time in my Exercise life where I want to do training not because it's healthy , or it will help me loose weight, no this Time I want to Train to improve what I'm doing in a race

For everyone who thinks of starting with Triathlons , I have only one Recommendation : Go for it !
But be warned you could be seriously hooked ;o)
So better start to pack my stuff for tonight and then I will relax for the rest of the day , it will be long Night and i just hope the Rain and Wind stays away ( Forecast is pretty grim ) .

another Race report, this time it was Tri time

done and dusted it is , today I have successfully finished my second ever Triathlon , it was over the Sprint Distance and I have finished quite far at the end ( even though the Race Result numbers show different at the moment, the Computer had a glitch and did not calculate my swim time).
Anyway this Race was never about position, this Race was about two things , firstly , do I really like Triathlons ( I suspected that after my first ever Triathlon last Year ), secondly if I like Triathlons , how far can I go and can I improve on it .

First Question is answered with a Yes , oh yeah I like Triathlons very much,I think I like most about them is, that beside that they are physically Challenging , for me they are mentally even more challenging.
The Swim part is the Scary Part and I have learned today I just need to do more Swim Training and then I  should be fine.
The cycling part is the easy Part, I have figured out that I really love Cycling, today  I took it easy on the bike because I knew I had to run 5km after the 20km Cycle ride and  I was not sure how my Body would react to it.
The Run was strange, I had the whole time the feeling that I was running really slow and at the and I was only 3-4 minutes slower than my personal best and I could have continued after this . I was not exhausted or drained .
So that brings me to my second Question , can I improve on this and yes I believe I can improve this if I manage to get a regular Training in and don't find excuses for not training. I'm pretty sure that I can chafe of easily 6-8 minutes from my Swim ( 750m in 23 min ) ,I'm even more convinced that I can cycle much faster, easily 8-10 min ( 20km in 48 min ) , the running  part is the hardest  ( 5km - 37 min ) , I would love to get here a tiny bit more out of it but that would require real dedication to running and not sure that I have that in me .
I think I will not do any other Triathlons until August that would give me plenty of time to train and do some other crazy exercise stuff , like the upcoming 30km Night Hike