Muskoka 70.3 photos

My wife and I had the privilege of standing in the rain for hours yesterday watching the muskoka 70.3. It was a great event, and if it hadn’t been for the weather it would have been a lot more fun to watch. Anyway, I took tons of pictures, most of which can be found here:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/gallery/album129

Only small, poor quality ones are posted online for now (the compression used makes them look more blurry then they actually are)… the originals are 12 megapixel jpegs at about 5.5 megs each. PM me if you’d like to get a full size version of any of them.

Here are a couple of decent ones:

My wife with Tim’s waiting for the first pros to arrive
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2536.jpg

Simon Lessing, first one out of the water:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2543.jpg

Soon to be local pro, Wolfgang Guembel:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2566.jpg

Celebrating his 41st birthday, Mike Hay:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2611.jpg

Some guy in a leasure suit:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2668.jpg

My old room-mate, Mike “smiles” Coughlin:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2677.jpg

The hill from the water up to transition… quite steep, and became quite a traffic jam once the main packs started coming in:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2722.jpg

Unfortunate DNF for Luke Dragstra:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2730.jpg

Cool shot of Wolfgang with his father-in-law standing in the background:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2776.jpg

Women’s leader, Joannna Zeiger, coming in off the bike (with a camel back):
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2795.jpg

Joanna going out on the run:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2819.jpg

Angela Naeth heading out on the run:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2833.jpg

Rebeccah Wassner starting the run:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2842.jpg

Lisa Bently heading out on the run:

http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2862.jpg

Richie Cunningham on the run:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2910.jpg

Joanna in the zone:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_2935.jpg

The last winding stretches on the golf course:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_3001.jpg

Mike Coughlin at the finish:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_3004.jpg

Mike showing off the hardware:
http://www.paulgraham.ca/albums/album129/NIK_3015.jpg

The guy in the “leisure suit” is me. It was actually a tuxedo bike jersey, which went along with my wife’s bride jersey that she wore during the race. You may have noticed her as the girl with a veil on her visor ;-).

This race was part of our honeymoon after getting married in California the previous week!

I saw you two. The veil was cute, although I don’t know how it didn’t weigh her down in the rain! :slight_smile:

It definately didn’t weigh her down, she had a 7 minute 1/2 marathon PR despite the condition and the tough course!