This past weekend Diana and I went up north for the Door County Triathlon. The past few years we have done the Half Ironman distance, but this year we decided to take it easy and have fun with the shorter sprint distance (1/4 mile swim, 18 mile bike, 5k run). This race is extremely well run and we really enjoy going up for it. We got up to the Mitsche's new property in Sturgeon Bay just in time for sunset and then waited for David to arrive from Madison.
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| Sturgeon Bay! |
Saturday morning we woke early to some strong wind and some rough looking water. We drove the short distance up to the start to find some nice 3 ft white caps in the bay... pretty glad we were only doing the sprint!
Diana went off in wave 9, and David and I went off in wave 15. It was a nice, flat, and quick course, and we were all pretty happy with the results. Diana finished 14th out of 61 in her age group, David was 12th and I was 7th out of 40 in our age group. We recovered with beer, pulled pork, and roasted corn (at 10 am) before heading back to the house. Race pictures are here if you enter our last name.
We had a bunch of friends doing Sunday's Half Ironman, so we had them over to the house for a spaghetti dinner and to hang out. The night ended with another great sunset.
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Sunday we were up early again to watch the start of the Half Ironman. We biked up from the house just in time for the start... and rain. The rain died off after about an hour and we biked out to a spot on the bike course to watch and cheer. We then biked to a spot on the run course to watch and cheer... and then biked to the finish to cheer (and have some refreshing beer), and then biked back to the house. Overall, our "relaxing" day of watching included almost 50 miles of biking.
And now for the required Cassie pictures. She did come to Door County with us and spent some time swimming in the bay. We didn't take any pictures then, but Diana got some good frisbee pictures yesterday!
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| Flying through the air |
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| Coming in for a landing |
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| The full catch! |
