These are not for general consumption

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Seen at Mobil station on Merritt Parkway

[honorary] Landsharks

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Molly, Peter, and Ed (not pictured) coached us with aplomb for almost 6 months. All they got (well not really) was a t-shirt. They sported their new Landsharks threads on Wednesday night after training a new group of TNT athletes (this time for Westchester Tri.)

For those of you who haven’t gotten your t-shirts yet, they are in New York City and we are just working out how they’ll be delivered.

More of what your donations have wrought: the Landsharks seem to have caught the tri bug. And thank god, because what would we do without fascinating correspondence like this every day.

Jed: I created a spreadsheet of some of the tris we were talking about doing this summer. I don’t think we all need to do everything together, but I thought it might be good for us to eep track of stuff.

Don: I think I am going to sign up for Harriman 1 today. Anyone else??

Aa: I’m down for that. Also, if you register for Brooklyn Half before May 15^th its only $17 for NYRR members. I’m leaning toward doing it (even if its at 10:00 pace)

Don: I’m out on the bklyn 1/2 but in on harriman 1. Who else is in?

Jed: I am probably in for Harriman in June (want to confirm some things).  BK.5 less likely.

Nems: I’m out for Harriman but just signed up for the bklyn 1/2 and the NYRR Dash & Splash on 6/13 (6.2M).

Jed: I’ll be able to commit later this week to one of these.

Don: anyone doing this?

Nems: I’m interested. I might also join Dodge and put an end to the coin sucking sound that is Equinox. If I join Dodge, does that give me city-wide access to other Ys?

Jed: I think the Y does have some city-wide membership options. If we do this, we can keep emailing each other here all the time!

Emily: (simultaneous with Jed): i’m interested in brooklyn tri club. and probably brooklyn 1/2 (running again, already!?) and other races to be determined. will go to gts tomorrow night. see some of you then…

Nems: Totally. Who’s in for emailing all the time and checking to see if other landsharks are in for potentially several things each day? Aa, can you develop a form for that? I’ll get to work on the logo for continued landshark communication and then send you all something conceptual and weird at first and then something that actually looks like a logo after that. Deal?

Don: this is exciting! it brings me back to a time long ago (circa 6 months ago) when everything was fresh and new…..

We’ve got a massive number of photos from Wildflower in this slide show. Take a look and see what your donations have wrought. As before, go full screen for full effect. Thanks to everyone for your support!

You haven’t heard from us since we were on the bus coming into the park. Sorry for the radio silence. (It turns out that Lake San Antonio really is in the middle of nowhere and that the iPhone doesn’t actually run on hope.)

My head hit the pillow last night at 2:15 am so I don’t have much energy for race recaps yet. We each (and all) had great races on Sunday with a lot of support from our TNT teammates as well as 15 out-of-town supporters. The course was hard but at every turn we encountered powder blue shirts and Go Landsharks cheers. Needless to say, it was amazing.

Here are the results with all the splits. A couple things you should note:

Nems’s remarkable comeback on the bike

I came out of the water 14 minutes ahead and he caught me at the 35K mark on the bike and then crushed a very difficult run course to take the top Landsharks time

Jed and Don’s identical time

Yes, they crossed the line together (with their hands held – pictures soon.)

Emily’s strong showing

Emily beat Jed and Don by 10 minutes and posted the Landsharks’ best swim time for her age group.

All in all, the Wildflower was an amazing experience. I’m immensely proud of all my teammates but most of all Jed. Jed posted a sub-4:00 triathlon and, even more impressively a sub-2:00 bike. In February of this year Jed hadn’t been on a bike for 17 years. If you see him give him a big pat on the back.

I think we’ll each give you race recaps when we have time to catch up on our sleep and cull through the many pictures that our able-bodies family photographers took. Thanks for all the support!

On the bus in Monterey county

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Having dropped lots of coin at the gilroy, CA walmart, we’re on the
bus to Lake San Antonio. It’s pretty hazy but the rain is holding off
for now.

gua gua out of SFO

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No man should be this happy at this hour

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Three Landsharks on the plane with two more to come. Alex managed to
get all of his race gear into a small attaché case but didn’t manage
to sleep last night. Jed has a newly minted fauxhawk. I’m slowly
recovering from my sickness. As my Uncle Jon observed, the "flight
ought to speed your recovery."

Pesti aka Alex en route to JFK

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Circa 5:15 am.