Photos from the Liberty Triathlon

I checked Minnefota Moments last night, and the photos were in! Here are some of Pharmie and I, as well as some random ones for fun...

Cute photo of us taking a photo of us


Zipping up Pharmie


Pharmie in the middle, waiting to start


Waiting around got CHILLY!


Hey! You! Yeah you! We all know what you’re doing! ;)


Pharmie exiting the water

Someone on BeginnerTriathlete.com said something very true about the race afterwards: “You need to remember that swimming is evil and will always find a way to disappoint us.” I loved that so much that I tweeted it. So here’s a photo of me leaving T1 while TRYING to leave that disappointing swim in the past:

I rarely look so focused / determined / constipated


Pharmie leaving T1


Out on the bike (with one of the 2 guys I leap-frogged all day)


Pharmie eating a granola bar (remember, she was doing the 70.3)

We got off the bike, ran about 200 meters, and then had a big uphill on a woodchip trail. That’s ALWAYS fun. Here’s the view looking down the trail from almost half way up:

And here’s a shot from later in the day from the same spot, only looking up the hill. You can’t quite see the top (it's farther up and to the right [that's what she said]):

Anyway, here I am most of the way up that hill in the early part of the run:

Helmet hair. It’s “in” right now.

And here I am coming back down with just a few hundred meters to go. I was D. O. N. E. I still haven’t figured out why, but I’ve noticed that my pinky finger sticks out when I sprint:

So dainty

Side note: Here’s a photo from near the finish of the Monster Dash 10 Mile last fall, and you can see the same pinky sticking out! What’s my deal?!?

Anyway, here I am hitting the line 8th overall and 1st in my AG:

Awkward. And a bit “penisy.”

I hung around with all these folks while waiting for Pharmie to come in:

Cathy, Katie, Erik, Julie, Mark, and Jen (who just finished 2nd in the 70.3)

Soon, Pharmie hit the finish line:

Yay Pharmie!!

In other news, these 2 were up to no good in transition:

Seriously, why do they look so guilty?

And finally, this might be the best sequence I’ve ever seen among race photos! He ends up smiling, so I feel like he’d be OK with me poking gentle fun at him. (I mean no disrespect to him - this is all in jest.) Here, let’s see if we can hear what’s going though his head by looking at these photos as he’s exiting T1:

“What?...”


“Why’s everyone yelling at me?...”


“Oh!! My aero helmet’s on backwards!!”


“Silly me!” *awkward blush*

Good stuff! I hope you got your helmet figured out and had a good race #559! (Footnote: I just looked up his results. He finished in 2:30 with a solid race. I don’t think the helmet held him back at all...)

Like I noted in my race report on Monday, you can click here to see my Examiner article about the race, along with a bunch of other photos. Thanks everyone!