Greetings from the bottom of Ohio; everyone is having a wonderful time down here!!!! Well, not really, but the morale seems to be holding up well after our bout with the morning quasi-Olympic distance race. Everyone was chipper and excited to get out of bed this morning; that excitement quickly faded when Nancy, my bedmate, woke up and told me she had pink eye (expletive deleted, Miss Boyd). We drove to the race amidst humidity so oppressive that we saw gorillas in the mist and set up for race number two of the weekend. After the frivolity of yesterday evening, this race was somewhere between "playing on a swingset" and "getting a root canal" on the Fun-O-Meter; it was longer (1500m swim, 40K bike, 6.55 mile run), hillier, and contained at least one life-threatening descent (as denoted by the skull and crossbones painted on the road). But we all made it out alive and with some fairly decent times to show for it; here's the rundown:
Greg Boyd ~ 2:22:59 (38th)
Jeremy McCallum ~ 2:23:27 (39th)
Tim Fredricks ~ 2:25:09 (45th)
Clemens Drenowatz ~ 2:27:36 (55th)
Josh McCallum ~ 2:27:49 (58th)
Josh Matter ~ 2:30:32 (79th)
Scott Przystas ~ 2:31:26 (86th)
Eric Tingwall ~ 2:39:38 (129th)
Alex Douglass ~ 2:42:53 (154th)
Nancy Boyd ~ 2:56:21 (230th)
Renee Auernhamer ~ 2:59:26 (243rd)
Alissa Thompson ~ 3:06:01 (260th)
Kate Salvadore ~ 3:16:16 (303rd)
Clemens Drenowatz ~ 2:27:36 (55th)
Josh McCallum ~ 2:27:49 (58th)
Josh Matter ~ 2:30:32 (79th)
Scott Przystas ~ 2:31:26 (86th)
Eric Tingwall ~ 2:39:38 (129th)
Alex Douglass ~ 2:42:53 (154th)
Nancy Boyd ~ 2:56:21 (230th)
Renee Auernhamer ~ 2:59:26 (243rd)
Alissa Thompson ~ 3:06:01 (260th)
Kate Salvadore ~ 3:16:16 (303rd)
Julia Jones ~ 3:28:28 (325th)
In less than two hours, we will be starting race three of the weekend, the second quasi-Olympic of the day. This is the first race where drafting among teammates is allowed, so the various members of the following teams will get to work together:
Team Hollywood: Josh Matter and Alex Douglass
Team Misfit Toys: Scott Przystas and Eric Tingwall
Team McCallum: Jeremy and Josh McCallum
Team Misfit Toys: Scott Przystas and Eric Tingwall
Team McCallum: Jeremy and Josh McCallum
Team Squid Butter: Nancy Boyd and Alissas Thompson
Team Triathlon is Our Victorious Secret: Renee Auernhamer and Kate Salvadore
The Misfit Toys are sad because their previous partners either a) broke their foot or b) fled to a non-extradition country.
Check back later this evening to see if our teammates still love each other. Boyd out.
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