YOU BIG LOSER!!!
Bailing out for no good reason??? Explanations are needed.
Note to Monty–The new look is good! My friend said later, “That was THE MARK MONTGOMERY???” 
Auburn Tri is ~the~ hardest thing I’ve ever done, but I finished. Big, big thanks to my boys, Dave, Pieter and John. You guys are the best. Nice to meet Mike and to finally meet Greg and Lynds. A great weekend.
And Gail—Sorry to not meet up with you!
clm
My money is on the C girl. It will probably go three rounds. Slowman will come out writing the logical in a rope a dope fashion, but the C girl will move and jab move and jab, then boom, boom, out go the lights sorry Dan…
That course was just utterly relentless. The hills and hills and hills, the heat, the mental focus required to ride all those hills, the muddy single track, the heat. The long power walks up various hills on the run - I did try running them but it was slower than walking!
What was up with all the people around who appeared to be RACING the first 3k? People were in obvious discomfort and gasping for air before they even hit the bike…what an odd pacing strategy.
My only note to BK would be to reinstitute the “World’s Toughest” moniker. It really belongs and I can not see marketing this race to inexperienced athletes…this course would just chew them up and spit them out. It was a great race and they did a tremendous job with the last second change of plans.
ot
You CAN’T talk about Aubrun Tri without posting a link to the overall results…
… I’m WAITING… :-))))
Klep honey, they haven’t put them up yet…
A couple of photos shortly…
Oh right, I was going there next… without photos it didn’t happen!! 
Klep, check your gmail…
So here are the photos available at the moment:
Cathy finishing it!
Fishman and JohnA
The bike course.
OT, I noticed that too. I started at the very front only to try and stay away from losing time to people jogging real slow and hitting a ton of traffic.
I ran next to my buddy and we took it fairly slow, but there were people dying passing me at the turnaround and back. Needless to say, only a handful were ahead of me when I got off my bike.
Is that why they changed the name, to get more entrants? That is wrong. This race is not for the weak, that is for sure.
Hey J,
Well regardless of why they changed the name, the description of the course should tell one what to expect - 5-6K of climbing on the bike and 1.3K on the run.
The water coming off the dam at Clementine was incredible. It was just rolling off the top and shooting out of a hole on the side - hope the out of towners got to check that out.
I was trying to find you, but wasn’t thinking real clearly after the “race”. Only after a burger and a shake at Ikeda’s did I start to feel human.
Took home a blueberry pie to share with LC…yummy! Figured he’d need the calories after the Davis Double. 
This race was amazing! Brutally hard but darned satisfying…even with all of my pre-race trials and the resultant performance issues.
I agree with OT…stop trying to market this one to the masses…I had a hard enough time out there, would hate to have been a newcomer to the sport.
G
Really quiet finish line… no spectators?
The first 3K was pretty fun - but not a good way to start a triathlon…
The bike was brutal - harder than last year, no doubt. The aid stations were pretty screwed up, too - I got one clean handoff all day the other times I had to stop completely. Note to Brad, don’t put the aid station at the bottom of a hill - it’s tough to grab water at 35 mph.
By the time I was done with the ride my hamstrings were killing me, and I simply couldn’t move my right leg after the first go up the Dam Wall so I called it a day - no point killing myself when I have a 16 hour training week staring me in the face.
OT, that was an awesome finish, and you uncorked a hell of a bike split. Good work!
No kidding! OT blew by me at about mile 5 and looked so strong I knew he was in for a good day! Knew I’d never catch him…well, till lunch time.
G
Really quiet finish line… no spectators?
My personal cheering section was there, which is more important.
Can’t speak for the faster finishers as I don’t know how many spectators were there then, but if you want cheering masses at the finish, this isn’t the race for you.
clm
You were looking good, despite the bike issues. I rode with you for a while toward Lemond Walked.
Anyone else think the bike was a little long? I heard 58. At any rate, the 40 mile marker was a lie, more like 35 at that point. My computer wasn’t working, so I have no idea.
So OT told me…sorry if I was less than sociable…and I’ll assume I was ;)…was not having an especially fun time out there.
What were you riding?
G
I had two guys tell me the turn around point (which sure seemed more than 2.5mi from orignal location) was at 29mi. According to my math, that puts the course at 58mi.
I do think it was long, and if so, I am very happy with my split.
Who said hi to me on my way out on lap one of the run course?
I did not know who to look for on the bike from ST. Clas and two local folks are the only folks I saw on the bike that I knew.
I ride in a green CSUS skinsuit with a dark blue P2K and some deep carbon wheels.
I agree about the bike aid stations. I grabbed a bottle and I thought I had broke my hand. I should have slowed down, but it is a race.
Oh, another side note, the female pros were very kind in getting over for us AGers.
JohnA,
My polar hrm showed 57.3 mi for the bike and it’s pretty accurate.
I was also tracking with a GPS (I’m a data junkie) and it showed
56.6 mi, but it always reads distances a bit shorter.
Tom
I was on a blue Yaqui Mariola, with wheels some Zipp 404’s that belonged under faster legs that day…