Thursday, June 28, 2007

Lake Montclair Olympic Triathlon - June 24th, 2007

Beth, Marisol, and I got in my car at 4:45 a.m. on Sunday June 24th and drove 30 miles south down I-95 to Lake Montclair, Virginia. Beth and I were competing in the Lake Montclair Triathlon, an olympic distance race with a 1500 meter lake swim, 40 kilometer 3 loop bike course, and 10 kilometer run.

1500 meter swim in 38:01
T1 of 2:49
40 kilometer bike in 1:11:25 (20.2 mph)
T2 of 2:10
10 kilometer run in 47:31 (7:40 mile pace)

finished in 2:41:56 overall

125 overall out of 393 finishers

12th out of 30 males in the 25-29 age group















The 22nd annual Bay to Bay Ride - June 17th, 2007

On Sunday June 17th, I left my house at 5 a.m. and drove north up to Annapolis and then east over the Chesapeake Bay on the massive Bay Bridge to Betteron Beach on the eastern shore of Maryland. The 22nd annual Bay to Bay Ride was a 104.2 mile ride starting at Betterton Beach, traversing east across Maryland and Delaware to Woodland Beach on the Delaware coast, then back west to the Chesapeake Bay, and then back north to Betterton Beach.