cranberry

[julieb]

So does anyone know if the race is on tomorrow? I checked the website and didn't receive a personal email yet to note either way as per the website. Anyhoot, if it is, glad it starts @ 9am

[veronica]

Good luck to all of you racing this weekend! I'll be holed up in a classroom from today until Sunday night...time to recertify for personal training. Ugh.

[delogne]

They'll update the website sometime today. Could just be rain with little wind if it keeps dying off the coast.

[gregcrist]

Just got email from Mark, that Saturday sprint is canceled. The summer's weather sucks!

[julieb]

thanks Greg....agreed, yet I'm secretly excited

[b10k]

Good call Mark! I enjoyed the day : )

[delogne]

Great job today Mark (and Eric). Everything felt so smooth from registration all the way to the BBQ. The awards could have been a bit earlier but it allowed everybody to catch up and tell stories about why we each didn't go faster today. Good time.

Must have been a special day because I thought I saw Alex training today. I was half expecting him to have adopted the 2 extra dogs so he could stand on a sled for the whole Ironman.

Lisa, Margot has your trophy. Mark tried to make me stand on the podium in your place but I refused because I haven't shaved my legs. He said that's why he wanted me to take your place.

[MKadlick]

Hey Tony- You're so awesome!! I think we get so use to you winning that we don't make nearly a big enough deal of it.

Lisa-You got a trophy? Not bad for what you called a bad race.Nice job!!

[David Blume]

Mark, great race today. Thanks for letting me join the fun.

Lisa, is 3rd place any consolation for you? Better than 4th, anyway. Congrats! Good job today Greg, Eric and Tony!

[lisavandore]

Tony, no one would believe you were me ~ I'm much taller. I didn't stick around for awards because when I looked at the results i was 4th in my AG.

Congrats to Tony, who still has got it, to Greg for his 2nd place AG finish (despite telling me before the race he didn't feel like racing ~ maybe the 2 beers and 2 glasses of wine last night had something to do with it), to David, who can't seem to catch a break in this new AG ~ 4th in a very impressive 50-54 field (I think the 4th garnered team points anyway), and to Eric, for knocking over 3 minutes off his time from last year (about a minute in each discipline, very nice). Wish more teammates had raced.

Thanks to Alex, Jocelyn, Margaret and Chris for riding down to cheer us on and to Dan, for showing up to cheer, even though he really wanted to race.

Thanks to Mark for a very well run race ~ really one of the best out there. I know you put a lot into it, and it shows.

[eric]

It was a great race - flat, fast, very accurate distances, aid stations on the run, nice volunteers and a cool band at the end. Great job Mark. I did not get the chance to eat the BBQ cause my stomach was not quite ready for food. Think it may have been my pre race meal - Greg did not think it was the best pre race meal and Dan gave me a what the !@#$ were you thinking look. Maybe I need to go see that guy Jesse and start eating apple sauce at 2:30 AM in the morning or whatever it is that he suggest. My 4th year in a row doing it and will do it again. Congrats to Tony, Greg, Lisa and David - you all had great races. We need to have more people doing that race next year - it is, after all, the club championship race.

[MBergiel]

Excellent racing everyone, makes me look forward to doing this one next year...

-Matt

[Mark]

Thanks everyone. Awesome job, Tony, you are without doubt the man. You made that look really easy. And great job to the rest of the team as well. Lisa, the modest one... Eric, the faster one... Greg, the consistent one... David, the deserving better one. Nice to the Cheks and Kadlicks, too.

It was a bummer about the sprint and the kids du, but we'll try again next year, hopefully, with better luck.

Fyi, the animated results on Zumtri are now live. Check it out: http://www.zumtri.com/race_files/Cranbe ... mTri.html#

[MBergiel]

Tony did great as the big red dot, looks like the second place there tried to draft off him for a bit. It's like an organized, angry ant farm...

-Matt

[delogne]

Did you notice the yellow ant that kept falling? That was Greg.