Dave, Beautiful country and congrats for finishing...Wow. Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:47 PM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > Last week I went to Lake Wanaka to take part in the Lake Wanaka Half which is > a half-ironman triathlon (1.9km swim, 90km bike, 21.1km run). It's run as > part of Challenge Wanaka which is the full ironman distance (yes, double > those numbers - they do two laps of each stage). This year one hardman was > doubling the full Challenge just for the fun of it. He started the day > before so he could finish before the cutoff time of the main race. > > http://www.challengewanaka.com/home > (The video is well worth a look) > > The scenery is spectacular and the course is renowned as one of the hardest > in the world. Even the swim had hills: the legendary nor'west wind had come > up overnight so we had some fairly large waves on the lake. > > On to the photos... I've split them into three galleries. > > First some pre-race photos of the area: > http://www.multi.net.nz/wanaka/pre-race/ > > Some taken during the race by my wife (with her iPhone) and her brother who > had borrowed my camera: > http://www.multi.net.nz/wanaka/race-day/ > > And a few pics from our trip home on Sunday: > http://www.multi.net.nz/wanaka/homeward/ > > Finishing that race was one hell of an experience - I'd had an injury during > training which meant I couldn't do anywhere near the amount I needed... but I > made up for it with sheer determination on the day :) > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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