I finished. The darn swim kicked my ass, but I did feel pretty good about the bike and run. I got 69th place out of 125 men in the sprint triathlon. In my age group, I was 3d out of 8 participants.
The results are as follows (rank is for age group):
Swim: 20:02, [...]
I’m relaxing at my friend Al’s house now. I went for registration for the sprint triathlon earlier today and a pre-race meeting. Hmmm. Well, the buoys were out in the water and, when I took a look at them, I thought, damn, I can’t believe I’m going to swim that. The [...]
I can’t remember the last time I put something up here, so I suppose it might be time for another post.
Last weekend, in addition to going to the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City for carnival eats, I went to a baseball game of Traverse City’s newest (and only?) professional sports team, the Beach Bums. [...]
It’s been just over a week in northern lower Michigan, and I’m sold. The grasshoppers chirp at night, a welcome displacement of car and motorcycle horns. My runs in the morning rarely cross a car even though I run on the road. My motorcycle rides in the afternoon sun rarely pass a [...]