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.
