River Cities - A blast!!!

River Cities was great this year - and even more impressive if you were there the night before. During our pizza party at the race site, a huge thunderstorm blew over the lake with 50mph winds. This absolutely destroyed the race site preparation and blew over every tent, table and speaker in sight! The PA system was completely destroyed and it is a miracle how the race director and volunteers worked through the night and got it ready for the 1,500 competitors the next morning.

The Dallas Athletes had a great turn out and once again proved to be the club which outshines everyone else! Danny, Tom, Edward, Kuay and crew did a great job setting up our tent and getting everything ready for us! Our pizza party - albeit a bit wet - was terrific.

All that I spoke with had a great race - Tom came close to beating Jim Lukanich - the CT group did great and once again I am sure Candy was close to the top in her age group! My success came in the form of beating Danny Jones by 20 seconds...hey, when you are as old as I am, you take very little chance to brag!

Mt race was so-so...my swim was terrible, my bike was pretty good and my run was slow...I need to change my training goals. I haven't improved at all over the summer and I need to refocus on my technique and L/T threshold training. Since I only have three races left this year (HHH100, Texas Man Triathlon, NYC Marathon) I am going to begin a long period of base training to improve these facets. All of this is in preparation of next year's full Ironman in Cour D'lene, Idaho! Oh well, enough about me...take a look at the pictures below...River Cities was fun!