Disney Triathlon - 9/23/07

The results are in...

CHRIS
Swim - 42:29
T1 - 6:07
Bike - 2:06:07
T2 - 2:29
Run - 77:29
Overall - 4:14:39

BINNI

Swim - 50:02

T1 - 5:22

Bike - 2:08:38

T2 - 3:57

Run - 64:10

Overall - 4:12:07

(Can you tell how hot it was??)

More Dewey Beach Triathlon Pics

Well that swim sucked! No more ocean swims!

Binni always looks so calm.
Hmmmm... 9:45am. Is it ok to drink beers at this hour, or does this indicate I have a "problem" Tap the keg, I'm coming in!

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrr!

Road trip to Orlando for the Disney Triathlon

Chris and I drove (yes, drove) to Orlando to visit his aunt and uncle and to participate in the Disney Triathlon.

We left Maryland on Friday at 5:30am and headed South. First stop - Dunkin Donuts in Quantico for, what else, but donuts and coffee. Next stop, lunch - pork bbq at Smithfield BBQ in Smithfield, NC. I don't love NC pork bbq but Chris does and he said this place was decent. Snack time - Lumberton, NC for boiled peanuts...So gross. These peanuts tasted like cold, salty, mushy plastic, but Chris loved them.

Just south of the NC border was South of the Border in Dillon, SC. It's shlock...it's probably a crazy place in the summer time. I took too many of pictures of the South of the Border billboards (which I will spare you). Here's one billboard and a picture of Chris with Pedro:

So, after a few more pit stops and a stop for candy, we finally arrived in Charleston, SC.

Peach tea at Teavana while exploring downtown Charleston, wine tasting at Ted's, and a stop for cookies (which were our snack on Saturday) at Three Sisters Cookie Cafe. Dinner was at Poogan's Porch. We shared an appetizer of Fried Green Tomatoes. Chris had shrimp and grits for dinner and I had the crab cakes with hoppin johns and green beans. Dessert was bread pudding.
No rest for the weary...We were on the road on Saturday morning by 6:15am and arrived in Orlando around 2pm. We spent Saturday playing with Chris's cousins kids and catching up with Rozan and Tom and the rest of the family.
Sunday morning was the Disney Tri...We finished but it was challenging. The swim (.9 miles) was in Bay Lake, near the Fort Wilderness Campgrounds/Resort. Very calm water but we were required to wear nose clips (deadly amoeba issues) which made swimming difficult. The bike course was 58K on Disney roads (but through none of the parks) and surrounding Orlando roads. And the run was two 3-mile loops on the Fort Wilderness property (very, very boring). It was so hot during the run that the bike medics had to administer IV fluids to several people and I saw a guy pass out.

This will be my one and only Disney tri because there were no Disney characters to be seen on the course or at the transition area or any where. A Disney tri without Disney characters...that's just not right.

Our celebration dinner (for finishing!) was with Rozan and Tom at the Samba Room. It's a cuban fusion restaurant. Delicious food. Sorry, no pictures. We might recreate some of the meal when Rozan visits Virginia in January.

We left Orlando on Monday morning around 7:15. Our food stops were at a Florida Citrus Center for grapefruits, oranges and more boiled peanuts, Savannah, GA for lunch at Lady and Sons...It's the best of Southern cooking...

Ralph's in Roanoke Rapids, NC for more pork bbq...A few hours later, dinner at Buzz & Ned's in Richmond (of the three BBQ places we tried, this one was my favorite).

And 15 hours later, we were back in Maryland. Overall, a great trip...We're already planning our next road trip.

One final picture...This is what happens when I spend too much time in the car and am not the one driving.

Dewey Beach Triathlon - Recap and Pics

Damn, I thought I had secured victory over Pat by giving him my heavy-ass mountain bike to ride.

The rain and wind kept us all awake the entire night (except for Susan, I think). When the alarm went off at 5am and the rain was still pounding down, I was saying we should forget the triathlon and go back to bed. Pat laid down the gauntlet, saying he was heading to the start no matter what, so we had to follow his lead. Cold and shivering when we got there, the people marking you for the race couldn't get the markers to even work since everyone was so wet.

Luckily, about this time the rain began to stop. We got our transition areas setup and I headed to the beach first, as I was in the second swim wave. Things got off to a bit of a late start. The water was a bit rough, but apparently much better than last year.

Getting out past the breakers and around the first buoy was tiring. I took it pretty slow. Once out in the water, though, I felt pretty good.

[Binni] I did not feel good during the swim...and for me, a bad swim=bad triathlon. Also, I lost my goggles at the start of swim as I was trying to get past the breakers to the buoys. That's a bad sign of things to come, don't ya think?

Pat hangs with Susan while waiting for his swim wave (thanks, Susan, for taking pictures!):

The bike was shortened to only seven miles due to road construction. Easy going, with only a light wind. I was pretty exhausted on the run, though. My legs just wouldn't go. The only thing that kept me moving was the thought of Dogfish Head beer at the end. Nothing like beer at 10am!

[Binni] No beer for me. I don't know how Pat and Chris can drink beer after a triathlon.

Drunk by 10:15am apparently...

And Pat beat us both!

Way to go Pat!

Swim - 00:16:47
T1 - 00:3:45
Bike - 00:29:34
T2 - 00:1:44
Run - 00:29:04
Overall - 1:20:52

Dewey Beach Triathlon: The Tale of the Tape

The results are in and I finally beat Binni in an event

	Swim	T1	Bike	T2	Run	Time
Chris	00:21:54	00:03:22	00:24:08	00:02:12	00:35:39	01:27:12
Binni	00:26:10	00:04:20	00:24:52	00:01:48	00:31:21	01:28:30

Pictures and recap later...

Tour de Tucson Training Update

Been out the past two Saturdays with the team:

Sept 1: Davidsonville, MD (42 miles)
Sept 8: Germantown, MD (42 miles)

Rest of the schedule looks like this:

Sept 15: Gone - Dewey Beach Triathlon
Sept 22: Gone - Disney Triathlon
Sept 29: Davidsonville, MD (62 miles)
Oct 6: Berryville, VA (65 miles)
Oct 13: Fredrick, MD (68 miles)
Oct 20: Gainesville, VA (72 miles)
Oct 27: Gone - Wedding in Houston
Nov 3 : Middleburg (90 miles)
Nov 17: Tour de Tucson