Wool Capitol
August 12, 2007
San Angelo, Texas
1500 Meter Swim-40K
Bike-10K Run
This was a hard event for
some reason, and my time reflected that.
It was hot; miserably hot. The swims were getting easier in my triathlon
career by now, and not much is remembered about the swim up and down the Concho
River.
The bike was the same out and
back with little or no traffic and I believe this is the bike ride where I saw
the large rattlesnake on the road.
Thankfully, it had been just recently run over and was dead. The run was the killer. I had to walk early.
The Marines at the aid
stations were most friendly and accommodating.
Ambulances came on the “dirt road from hell” running course to pick up a
man who got crazy in the heat and just went off the course and fell. I believe quick action by the Marines saved
this man’s life. I had worn this cap with a neck protecting flap on the
back: bad idea. It was miserably hot on my head. Wetting it
down at the aid stations was the only way I could tolerate wearing that
thing. My time was a full seventeen
minutes slower than the first time I did this one five years before and the
difference was in the run. I was spent
when this was done. One of the toughest
I have ever done.
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