In my race report, I left off just after I'd finished. When I found Pharmie and Henry, I was told ALLLLL about the dogs Henry had met. He'd met literally over a dozen dogs. Here he is with a complete stranger and his 2 dogs as I was out on the run course:
Shortly after finishing and watching Oly athletes starting the final run, I shouted
"There's Matt heading into T2!" We cheered him on as he started the final 10K:
He asked about Angela (ooooohh... someone's in loooooove), and Pharmie said that she came out of the water with a smile! Matt gave a big "thumbs up" when he heard that!
I went into transition to start gathering some of my stuff, and suddenly Angela was in front of me!
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Racking her bike, telling me that she hated me for already being done.
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A big THUMBS UP for her first Oly!
I ran out on the course as a cool down, and I found Angela nearing the end of her first loop:
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Running the cul-de-sac loop with her.
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Angela running off up the final little incline before the flats and downhill to the finish.
I got back to the finish area, and we waited for Matt to finish. It was a bit of a wait because he bonked hard in the final lap. But before too long, we saw him in the distance:
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Matt about to finish his FIRST Oly Tri!
And just a few minutes behind him was his fiancée Angela:
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Announcer Jerry MacNeil said something like "look at that perfect mid-foot strike on Angela Starry
as she comes to the finish line!" It was true - her form looked great at the end of the race!
And I want to mention that this was a great race - the volunteers were some of the BEST ever. It's put on by a swim club, and the swim club members (and some of their parents, presumably) were super out there on the course. In my experience, when it's a "professional" race, the volunteers are great, but the race is a little more "high pressure" and maybe not as friendly. When it's a low-key race (which I tend to prefer), it's common for some of the volunteers to be something like a high school baseball team earning money for uniforms - and in races like that, I've sometimes had to ask the volunteer which way to go because they're not doing much to direct the athletes. (I'm not trying to complain - just pointing out something that's happened a few times to me.) But this was a perfect balance of a low-key race with high quality volunteers!
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CLICK HERE for my race report from Monday.
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CLICK HERE for an Examiner article about the race along with more photos.
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