New Balance Half Iron - June 18

Team Flying Dutchmen

Fathers Day. New Balance Half Iron.
Ray 2 km swim
Colin 93 km bike
Don 20 km run
Up at 4:40 am to get ready, eat, pick up Colin (Don rode his bike to my house) to get to Elk Lake for body marking and timing chip pickup.
The first wave of swimmers starts at 6:45 (men 18-39) followed by all the women. The third wave is men Masters 40+ and finally the relay swimmers. (63 teams)
The water was nice, no chop and with only 62 other swimmers to start with, I was not crowded or kicked (much). The hard part is the sighting. You need to find a marker in the distance and every 8 strokes sight it. (switching from side to side on the 9th stroke)
I passed some Master swimmers and women swimmers, and ended coming out of the lake and over the timing mat in 43:26. As I wanted to break 45:00, I was very happy.
I was 465 out of 596 swimmers. (lots of fast swimmers out there)
Colin was waiting by his bike in the transition zone, and I had to hand off the timing chip.
Colin rode an amazing ride, felt like he had everything working well and he tells me he was only passed by about 5 riders while passing a couple of hundred. He was not exaggerating as his time of 2:57, after he handed the timing chip off to Don, had our team in 206th place overall.
Don ran his first 10K at around 52+ minutes and the second slightly faster to finish his run in 1:43. Don's run was 207th overall.
Our team Tri finished in 197th place overall.
Visions of what we can do next year dance in our eyes.