Seafair Sprint Triathlons(Photo: KB & Darcy post-race)>
July 15, 2005
3rd in AG (45-49)
Swim: 17:18
T1: 1:43
Bike: 38:03
T2: 1:16
Run: 24:28 (7:52 pace)
Total: 1:22:49
July 16, 2006
2nd in AG (45-49)
Swim: 14:27
T1: 1:30
Bike: 37:33
T2: 1:10
Run: 24:04 (7:45 pace)
Total: 1:18:44
The Seafair tri is a popular mid-summer race in Seattle. The swim is a triangle course in Andrews Bay at Seward Park, the bike ride takes you along Lake Washington Blvd. and onto the express lanes of I-90 for an out-and-back ride. The run goes around Seward Park mostly along the lakeshore, except for about 1/3 mile "tour" of the "upper park" (i.e.; there's wicked steep hill 2 miles into the run). I've done this race yearly since '04.
In 2005 when she was 9, Camille and a couple pals did the "Kids Triathlon". The kids pretty much run through chest-deep water for about 50 yards for the "swim", then ride a level mile and run something like 1/2 mile.
Here is Camille getting mentally focused and centered before her swim send-off. Note the concentration as she visualizes herself slicing through the water, maybe silently chanting "I am sleek, fast and strong. I am a seal. I will move through the water like a torpedo." Probably she is scoping out the course and considering whether to swim a direct line or go wide around the buoys. OH WAIT! Her skin is wet... She is actually in T1 and finished with the swim! And not exactly in an "action pose", she looks like she's chatting....or loafing! Clearly, this is someone else's child, not mine.
Check out the girl in pink (click to enlarge) . Maybe Camille passed her on the run and she is making a mental note of who she is (probably checking a race number and age marked on the backs her calves) and will later go home and look up her results, then Google her past races and try and take her down next time they meet in competition. Or maybe she just wonders where she got that soda pop.
Camille with friends and grandma.
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