Friend of mine and I headed out to Sonoma along with our families for Vineman over the weekend from Dallas. This was our second ironman distance race after CDA in 2005.
Great race - great venue - great volunteers - and great organizers. While it doesn’t have the “production value” of a WTC event I enjoyed the experience and would recommend it to anyone. Challenging bike and a very warm run, even by Texas standards. I read many of the posts related to the 70.3 race and I did not have any issues with cars or people standing up during the swim.
Best of luck to the organizers in the future and congrats to all finishers. It was a very friendly race. I’m done with the 140.6 races for the next 20 or so years as the training is tough with a 2 year old and another on the way. That being said I find this distance a very rewarding experience.
