Ken, you had a great race today.  Your son was incredibly lucky.  INCREDIBLY!!!  A few minutes before I met you in T2 transition (I was the relay guy waiting on SportySue), I saw your son get hit by, none other than Justin Daerr, Pro Triathlete.  I just had no idea that was your son.  Justin was smokin through there, downhill, with a tailwind.  He had to have been going 25+mph.  From my vantage point, it looked like your son was playing and jumped off the curb.  It was right there across from the dismount line where the bike lane was only 7-8 feet or so.  People were standing on the curb and there was a slight curve to boot.  It was really difficult to see if anyone was coming.  In a bizarre coincidence, Justin's girlfriend, Brook, was standing right there and saw it happen also.  He stopped his bike to turn around and look to make sure "the boy" was in one piece, and also put his chain back on.  His gf ran down to him and she reported that he said "he was fine, but how was the boy?"  Probably about crapped in his pants too, cause if he had gone down, it would have been ugly.  Your wife was very distraught and upset.  One guy in particular was piling on saying "yeah, I think it's broken".  It didn't look like it to me, but who am I to hold a public debate over a possibly broken leg?  Don't come down so hard on your Mrs.!  They were there to see you!  I know when I take my kids to see my wife's races, it is impossible to keep them in line all the time.  If anything, it was a poor location safety-wise to view the race.

You should get Justin's email off his website and let him know your kiddo is okay.  I am relieved to find out he's doing fine!  I thought it was kind hearted of Justin not to be such a selfish triathlete SOB like a Normann Stadler.  Can you imagine if HE had hit your son?

Anyways, long day for your family, glad you stayed on the course and had a good race.  It was nice to meet you briefly.  Saw you on your run to, you were looking pretty smooth.

I'm so glad Kaleb appears to be allright.  Thanks so much for calling me after the race and letting me know that you were leaving and what had happened.  I appreciate that.

I seems like this was just one of those freak accidents that could have been much worse.  I'm sorry I didn't get to meet your wife.  Hopefully, I will one of these days.

On a brighter note, you had an absolutely killer race.  I'm the most impressed with 2 things:

1. Your appropriate pacing on the bike and
2. Your unbelievable run split that followed.  

The wind was very strong out there yesterday and I think that you could have really blown yourself up if you pushed too hard, so kudos for pacing well.  Then to run 7:35s in really awesome, Ken.  I didn't know you had that kind of speed in those freakishly long legs!  That's faster than by best OLY run split! 

Anyway, great race all around and congrats on the 2nd place HW.   I guess you'll need to contact Ahmed to see if you can get the HW, right?   

Glad to hear the kiddo is ok.

I felt your pain on the T1 decisions.  I thought I had made mine prior to the race I just couldn't get anything to go on smoothly so I finally gave up and got out of there but not before wasting four minutes.

Your race times look fantastic. 

CONGRATS!!! You rocked it.

K