Thursday, 1 December 2011

Applied for the first Triathlon Race on next April in Ishigaki-island.

Triathlon is becoming popular sport in Japan.  And I am one of these who want to become a triathlete.  As I wrote previously, I have done aquathlon on last October although the result was horrible.

Today, I applied for my first triathlon race coming next April.  It will be held in Ishigaki island, a beautiful island located in East China Sea.  This race is one of the most popular triathlon competition in Japan.  My friends told me that I should apply on line within the opening day of registration.

And today was the day of opening registration for the competition.   The opening time was 12 o'clock.  Unfortunately I was out of office and I could not access the website at the time of opening.  Actually I am in the middle of the luncheon seminar.  I left the seminar room as fast as I could and It was about 12:40 when I could open my Macbook Pro.

I finished my registration in 5 minutes and my registration number was 783.  Only 1050 seats were available and some of those were reserved by Travel agencies.  If I spent a couple of hours until registration I guess I could not make it.  In fact, the website for registration closed before 2:30 or 3 o'clock.

Anyway, I made it, fortunately.  All I need to do is to train more and more and to prepare for the race.

来年の四月に開催される石垣島トライアスロンの出場申し込みが本日受け付け開始となりました。噂には聞いていましたが、まあ、埋まるのが早いこと早いこと。本日は学会場にいたため開始時刻の12時にはコンピュータを開くことが出来ませんでした。ようやく自分のMacbookを学会場内でネットに接続できたのが12時40分頃。大急ぎで手続きを済ませ、時計を見ると12時45分。まだ受け付け開始から一時間も経っていませんでしたが私の受付番号は783でした。

この大会の一般枠は1050名です。一般申し込みとは別に旅行代理店が大会登録付きでツアーを販売していますので、今日、インターネット上で出場登録できる枠は恐らく1000以下であることが予想されます。相当な勢いで出場枠は埋まり、ネットの噂では3時前には登録が締め切られていたとのことですから、やはり大変な人気の大会のようです。

幸い、出場枠は確保できましたので、恥ずかしい結果に終わらないよう、また自身の安全のためにも大会まできっちりとトレーニングを続けていきたいと思います。

2 comments:

  1. I would love to have a go at a Triathlon but fear I would only manage to do one of the three parts and would probably be last in the field for that!

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  2. Being the last won't be a big problem. I think it will be fun to try something I haven't done before. That's why I do this.

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