Lloyd
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Ok, race report from the weekend. Mimi's still in recovery mode from the Boston Marathon, but entered a local women-only sprint triathlon, mainly because she was honored as the Woman of Steel award winner last year (given each year to someone who has overcome obstacles and changed her life through triathlon... there were more than 90 nominees, btw), and as the prior year's honoree, she was asked to speak at the Expo the night before the race, so she felt she should participate. She had NO expectations, results-wise, going in to the race.
It was very cold (39F at race start) and rainy, so the swim was cancelled (wisely... they would have had many women hypothermic, had they ridden their bikes after swimming). They made it a run-bike-run (one mile run, 14 mile bike, 5K run), and started in waves of 100, each wave starting 30 seconds after the one before it. Mimi started in the sixth wave, so there were about 600 women ahead of her. (Each person wears a timing chip, and their time starts as they cross the start line, so it's fair).
Long story short: During the race, she made up ground and passed more than 590 women. She was the 7th woman to cross the finish line, despite having to make up the delayed start, and finished 5th overall (out of ~800) in the final results. The closest woman to her, age-wise in the top 15, was 11 years her junior! She won her age group by almost 7 minutes.
Here on the bike (I've teased her mercilessly about those red gloves, but it did help me spot her.):
Blowing by much younger women on the run:
My favorite shot of the day; with about a half mile to go, clearly suffering, but flogging herself to get to the finish:
All with the D3, 70-200/2.8 VRII @f2.8 ISO 1000
It was very cold (39F at race start) and rainy, so the swim was cancelled (wisely... they would have had many women hypothermic, had they ridden their bikes after swimming). They made it a run-bike-run (one mile run, 14 mile bike, 5K run), and started in waves of 100, each wave starting 30 seconds after the one before it. Mimi started in the sixth wave, so there were about 600 women ahead of her. (Each person wears a timing chip, and their time starts as they cross the start line, so it's fair).
Long story short: During the race, she made up ground and passed more than 590 women. She was the 7th woman to cross the finish line, despite having to make up the delayed start, and finished 5th overall (out of ~800) in the final results. The closest woman to her, age-wise in the top 15, was 11 years her junior! She won her age group by almost 7 minutes.
Here on the bike (I've teased her mercilessly about those red gloves, but it did help me spot her.):
Blowing by much younger women on the run:
My favorite shot of the day; with about a half mile to go, clearly suffering, but flogging herself to get to the finish:
All with the D3, 70-200/2.8 VRII @f2.8 ISO 1000
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Thank you. That's a pretty good "non-nikon" lens. The closest description of the color is "blue violet". Norway's beautiful (even if the people are boring according to Lief 
