Sunday morning: The big day. We started our caravan out to the Lausanne Triathalon early in the AM, complete with rockin' pre-race mix tape tunes including AC/DC, Eminem, Queen, and, er, Justin Bieber (Editor's note: Seriously? JB? Are we a bunch of 15 year old girls here?) It was sunny and gorgeous, and was only going to get more sunny, more gorgeous, and way hotter.
[On the way to bike check-in...]
On our way to the bike check-in, we had a stellar sighting - the fabulously creepy outfit guy from last week's Geneva Triathalon was doing the Sprint Tri again this week! Yeah!
Derek and Jerry getting ready to set up in the transition area...
Dan too....
Good bye hugs....
...and good luck kisses...
[Kamikaze cuteness photo as always taken by Kim]
And so we get ready to begin...1 mile swim (1500 meters), 26 miles (40 kilometers) on the bike, and 6 mile (10 kilometers) run...Ready...ALLEZ!
The guys were luckily all in the same group, which made it a lot easier for us to keep track of all three of them. That's them in the swim above...
More of the swim. And keep an eye on those two swans on the left...
They must have been pissed that despite swimming in this lake everyday further than 1mile, that they were not given a sweet technical shirt like the guys got...so they decided to ghost swim the race...directly across the swim course...(Being that the swan is beating that guy, I think I can further classify this under swan athletics/acrobatics, don't you?)
[Transition area...]
On to the bike...Dan's easy to pick out because of the bright yellow shirt...
Jerry on the bike...
Jerry was smart to bring presents when he arrived to France in the form of "GO JERRY! JERRY ROCKS!" hats and t-shirts...Kim and I were very excited for our gifts...
Crazy steep hill with a 10% grade...this wasn't the worst part, just where we were cheering them on...
[Geneve's not the only Suisse city with a flower clock...]
Coming next: The conclusion of the Lausanne Triathalon, as well as "The Curse of the Bike Rack..."
The good luck photo kiss is precious :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's my fave of the bunch. :)
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