Waterloo, Iowa United States USA Triathlon/Perigrine Charities 61F / 16C

Total Time = 2h 26m 48s Overall Rank = 26/ Age Group = M40-44 Age Group Rank = 4/

Plan for this race was hatched way back in early February while working the multisport expo with Scoobysdad. Race director Amber had the booth next to us and ended up invited us down to work their expo and do the race.

Scoobs (from here on out will be referred to as EZ Whip) picked me up on saturday morning to start the voyage to the land of corn. off we go and of course the diva EZ Whip has to stop at starbucks like right away, great i can see how this is going to go.......but he remedied that situation by buying me some good java (and an apple fritter) as well, so everything is good. trip was rather uneventful and dull, just like most of the stories he was yappin on about along the way........until we got into iowa itself and came up on towns such as epworth (claim to fame is that i guess, according to EZWhip, that the 2 of the last 153 Olympians in the sport of curling for the united states have come from there.....) and Earlville, which i guess used to be Earlsville, but the two Earls didnt get along and the one Earl kicked the other out and told him to take his "s" with him.....) and walter's residence, which im sure had some long explanation but seriously, i was just trying to not pay attention to EZ Whip and concentrate on seeing all the corn............well we finally made it to the venue for the expo and were promplty impressed with everything, well that was until i had to do all the set up since EZ Whip went over and got another coffee from the booth next to us and ended up in their hot tub somehow........geez..........oh and all this after he caused quite the commotion in dubuque at a Mcdonalds when he asked for two hamburgers and got two cheeseless cheeseburgers instead...........frickin diva, i tell ya. so i get done setting up and then go rack my bike and all of sudden its time to go so i have to tear everything down while he gets his neck scanned by the chiropractors...... whatever. so we end up at taste of verona for dinner and im sitting there trying to watch some football and good old EZ Whip is sitting there flapping his gums about who knows what and is inviting everyone and their mother to sit with us! man...........so we finally make it to the comfort inn and suites after a quick stop at the kum -n- go (um, no im not making that up! and for some reason EZWhip came out with a big smile and smoking a cigarette........?????? so bedtime comes and morning arrives and get ready to go and yahoo EZWhip apparantly cant read direction and screwed up putting on his tritats so i have to use my artistic awesomeness and color everything in for him with a sharpie....boy what fun to start the day!!! hope the rest of the day wont be like that as off to the venue we go!

well apparently rich has the dumbest smart phone ever as the dumb machine never did get us back to the venue from the hotel, but we did get a good tour of a lot of alleys of cedar falls!

didnt get a swim or bike warm up in but did get a good run in.