Ironman 70.3 mile triathlon – outside of the Friends House July 14, 2008
Posted by Amandeep in Kitchen Confidential, Parliamentarian's Report.Tags: 70.3, College Hill, ironman, triathlon
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Yes, you read that title correctly. Yesterday morning, the Friends House awoke to find what appeared to be some kind of race going on outside.
Upon further inspection, it was revealed to not only be a footrace, but the final leg of a triathlon. And it wasn’t just any triathlon, but one of the 70.3 mile (not kilometer, mile) Ironman triathlons.
Below is the last runner to come over College Hill, a little past 3pm, with a golf cart beside her and a police car behind her, holding back the cars eager to move down the road as it opened with her passage. She was a mile away from the end of a 70.3 mile journey. That’s f-ing amazing.
Incidentally, here’s the account of a fellow WordPress blogger that competed in the triathlon. Congratulations to him! He gives a full 2 paragraph description of our beloved Hill (in his words, ‘the MONSTER hill at mile 2 and 8′) and it’s trials. (from his post, ‘This was the hill that the X Games used for street luge when they came to town. Yeah. Seriously.’)
We have sympathy as frequent trekkers up and down its slopes.
Thanks for coming out to check out the race last weekend! For an inaugural event, the locals were great in coming out to support all of the athletes.
Your hill is bad-a$$.