I'm not going to say too much about this one, as I wrote a race report last year and for the most part it is the same – the swim in the lake is fine, though seemingly long; the bike isn't bad – a few hills, especially a long uphill around mile 40 that is always a pain; and a run that you wish was shorter, and cooler (another puke-by-the-side-of-the-course experience for me. Needless to say, orange Gatorade never looks good coming back up). Awards are great for the first five finishers – decent sized gift certificates to TriSports.com. Too bad I was 6th overall. At least I got something for winning my age group.
The nice thing about the weekend is that there is essentially something for everyone: a long course, a long course aquathon (half iron distance without the run), Olympic distance, kids' race all on Saturday; followed by an XTERRA on Sunday. I tried to tell a lot of the story with captions of the photos on the Photos web page, so go have a look there if you're interested. The kids race is only for kids ages 6-12, so that population between 13 and ~15 is sort of out of luck, unless your kid is a real stud and can handle the Olympic distance race.
A lot of Los Alamos people raced this year: Chuck Farrar, Greg Geoffrion, Tina Behr-Andres, and I did the long course; Max Light and Joaquin Gutierrez did the Olympic; our son Ben - the speedster / overall winner – did the youth race; Dan Rees, Clay Moseley, Laurie Goddard, Kim Meyer, and Paul Graham all did the XTERRA. Did I leave anyone out? Probably – sorry about that. Kudos to Laurie and Clay for pulling off a two-fer this weekend, having competed in Farmington the day before. More kudos to Greg and Tina for finishing their first half iron distance races.
Another great raffle this year, although even with all of the extra tickets we bought, we got NOTHING. Greg picked up a nice commuter bike light and a wetsuit, though!
As Clay's blog indicated, the last part of the XTERRA run was actually a swim which was a real hoot to watch. You saw lots of people enter the water, thinking it's just a little high-stepping section they had to get through, only to realize it was too deep to walk, and they'd end up swimming. Right near the transition area, so we all had a great view.
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