Photos From the Triathlon

In my race report from the triathlon, the photos stopped about 20 minutes before the race.  Now, I have photos from both the official race photographer and David, who, along with his girlfriend, stood out in the rain all morning.  Thanks David!

One thing about the official race photographers is that there really wasn't any rhyme or reason to the photos they took.  There's just a random smattering of photographs.  So, they didn't get everyone swimming, biking, or running.  There is some proof though that I swam:

Waiting on the beach for the swim to start.  There's only half of me visible here—I'm in the red, white, and black tri-suit.

Please note the 2 guys in the center of the photo.  They are wearing jean shorts.  I was right behind them, and told myself: "MUST BEAT JEAN SHORTS".

Katie, Katie S., and Ariel's wave starting.  Ariel is on the far left, Katie is second from left.  In this photo, Katie is saying "I hate weeds, I hate weeds, ew, ew, I hate weeds…"

Me exiting the water in my royal blue* attractively gold swim cap.  (Photo by David)

I'm on the left side of the photo here.  More interesting though is the girl in the green shorts who looks like she is going to vomit on her shoes (if she were wearing shoes).

Interesting side note about the girl in green shorts.  With about 10 minutes to go before we had to be out of transition, she, along with another girl and guy show up to set their transition areas up.  They were each doing their first tri, and were a bit rushed.  We made some room for them on our rack, and answered questions like "how do we put the swim cap on?".  After the race, the guy came over to his friends and asked: "Can you help me find my bike?  I put it on a different rack, but I'm not sure where it is…"  The girl in the green shorts beat me out of the water even though I had a 3 minute head start (but I did pass her on the bike).

Katie coming out of the water shooting David a blurry glance.  (Photo by David)

Ariel (on the left) coming out of the water.  (Photo by David)

Another friend of ours, Mike (as in Katie S. and Mike), getting up to speed on the bike.  I thought this was just a fantastic photo.

Katie is REALLY happy here for some reason.  It could be that she was hoping her winning smile would keep the guy from passing her.

Ariel with the always helpful "eyes closed" bike riding method.  I did that for most of the ride too.

Katie says I have a look of anger on my face here that says: "Stupid Matt, why didn't you wear your sunglasses?"  Really, it was more a look of confusion coming into transition, but the inner dialogue Katie got spot on.

Much happier here.  Most likely because I knew I would start running in a minute.  (Photo by David)

The Fred Flintstone stop is extremely useful.  (Photo by David)

Apparently, my look of confusion passed on to Ariel.  (Photo by David)

Then she found her look of joy too!  (Photo by David)

Katie S. in this awesomely fantastic finishing photo.  Seriously, this final sprint was epic.

So hooray for photos!  There is no photographic evidence that either Katie, Ariel, or I ran, but I assure you that we did.  I promise.

*At packet pick-up, the sheet with the swim wave assignments said I should have a royal blue swim cap. But, there was a gold swim cap in my bag.  I looked at the sheet, and it said that men 45 & up should have a bronze swim cap, so I figured that "gold" was really "bronze".  I asked the volunteer running packet pick-up if I could get a royal blue cap, and after contacting the race director, we discovered that royal blue became gold.  So I kept my attractively gold swim cap.  She also offered me a light blue swim cap, which would have made me a woman, 45 & up.