Tuesday, September 11, 2012

IMWI 2012

Back at Iron man this year!

We had a great visit with Kurt and his new GF Arina.

They also hosted us on the visit, rides to/fro the airport, loaner bicycle, (belt drive internal hub for me) Karyn got a rental.

Kurt fixed up the toilet with Duct tape!

 An early look at the IMWI finishline!!!

We headed downtown for the night before IMWI gathering with the old team.  Before they showed I got a pic of the beer menu at the Great Dane


The team back together!!!  Well last year's athletes that are not competing this year!

The day started out early as we rode with Kurt and Arina down to the swim start.  We got there at 6:30, the race started at 7am!

We spectated at the swim start.  As usual a crazy swim start...

Just look at all those heads!
Some not very quick breakfast we met a nice spectator that lives in Madison.  He talked to us a bit while we waited for the restaurant to open and serve us...  The food was good, but they took their time!

Back to the swim finish, we missed Becky and Jake, but saw Karen out of the water.  Then we hightailed it out to Verona for spectating the bike course, we went to the red barn, and it was a little crazy out there.







 Yes she did have clothes on...




We saw all our athletes on the first lap, then headed back in.  Some other interesting things are the grill and the signs at the bike course...

We saw Karen make the bike transition (only a few miles further than she made it last year)!

Off to the run course.   We did see all the athletes on the run as well, I watched Jake finish, then Becky finished about the time Karen came to round the first loop.

Becky at the finish!
We got some quality time with Karen on the run, as well as plenty of other strong looking athletes.


Jake finished ahead of his time Great work! Becky finished a few minutes shy of her target, Karen?  Well I frankly don't know what she was targeting, but she finished!

All in all 87 miles for the weekend, and ~70 on the Ironman day.  Very fun!

Fun to see the craziness on the square...

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