Five brave souls participated in this year's first Tri-ur-own distance: Kristian Cabahug, Ric Dizon, Ralph Sios-e, Lyndon Dongallo and Anton Regis. All are camsur bound except for Anton who decided to pass this years 70.3 Ironman Philippines. Supporters were also present to lend a helping hand: Janet Cabahug, Coach Benjoe Gimenez, Helen and Yanyan Dizon. A couple of SugbuTri online forum members also stopped by to show their support: Jemsban and Juperson. The participants swam about 1.8km of open sea water and had to battle their way through the bigger waves than usual. There were a few jellyfish stings along but they managed to dodge and face them head on. Anton said that, jellyfish are always there and getting use to them is part of the training.
Bike leg was set to a maximum of 60 kilometer ride over a bright sunny day. Ralph, Kristian and Lyndon did 60, Ric did 50 while Anton did 40 kilometers. They finished their ride the way they wanted it to be. Run was a sight-seeing 4km loop and it started around 11:30 in the morning. Anton and Ralph did one loop while the rest did more. The bike and run was scorching hot but they had to go through the test if they want to know how it feels to finish a triathlon especially when you do a 70.3 Ironman. With the first Tri-ur-own distance out, more participants are expected to join the next one. Another exciting inato triathlon celebration awaits come July 18, 2010.