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Lindsey finally brought the camera so we have pictures to post. 

Swim Heat 1

Actually, lets talk about Lindsey for a bit.  Shout out to the pregnant girl.  When I first started doing this race I brought Lindsey over to the pool to time the race and help me count my laps.  It’s pretty easy to sit poolside and count a lap every 45 seconds.  Then she started counting everybody’s laps and keeping all of their split times.  That’s a little bit tougher.  Now she’s the full-blown clerk of the course.  She does the pre-race countdown and keeps track of all the laps and times–while taking pictures, then she picks up everybody’s clothes and miscellaneous stuff from the pool deck and carries it back to the transition area for more pictures and to get splits from the bike leg.  Then she rushes down to set up the aid station with water and Gatorade–and she takes more pictures.  Then she rushes back up to the finish to get everybody’s final times.  OK, she also has help from my mom, but at 8.5 months pregnant, she gets all of the credit.  We need more volunteers!

He-Man out for a morning strollMom helped in the transitions and had bagels and bananas waiting for us after the race.  Thanks Mom.

On a personal note, I finally broke 1 hour 15 minutes.  It took me 8 tries, but I came in at 1:14.28.  By the end of the season I should be able to go under 14:30 in the swim, 37 minutes on the bike and under 20 minutes on the run.  That will get me close to 1:13 if I have good transitions.  More on transitions to follow. 

Micah in transition

Steve Donahoo was having an off day so I was able to stay with him on the bike.  It was perfect because it makes me push a bit harder and my bike leg was fast. 

Steve kept complaining about his lack of sleep and the carpal tunnel syndrome in his wrists that were making it difficult to shift gears.  I heard excuse after excuse, but I think he was just slacking.  Every time his wife drove by on the course, Steve would speed way up and jet ahead of me.  Lindsey caught Steve in the transition area and it’s obvious what the real issue was.  You’re not supposed to lounge in the transition.

Steve in transition

Mostly everybody ran personal bests, so the conditions must have been good.  That means people are getting into shape so the next couple of races should be pretty fast.

We don’t want to talk too much about how Bryan Thacker made me reschedule the race to this weekend instead of next (my sister had to miss the race because of this change), then he made me change the start time because he had to work on Saturday morning.  Then he didn’t even show up.  He must’ve been an only child in an earlier life. 

Of course, Kirk Lindahl brought up the rear in style.  He’s slowly getting faster and faster and I think he’ll be giving up the final spot before the end of summer. 

Here are some thumbnails.  Click to open the full-sized image in a new window:

He-man trying to fly mess with Ted, you be dead the other he-man Kirk on the run Dave on the run Micah running He-Man in Transition Steve running? 

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