Me and my teammate Brian. We were originally supposed to be a three person team with our friend Martin, who introduced us. But Martin had to work at the last minute, so Brian and I decided to do it, even though we had just met.

The start was chaotic. We were given maps about 5 minutes before the start and had to copy the race course route onto the maps very quickly. This would come back to haunt us later when we weren't sure if we had drawn the line correctly.

And they're off.

Linda took all of these pictures, so all we have are pictures from the Transistion Areas, we don't have any of the spectacular scenery out on the course. Hopefully we can get some pictures from the race organizers to add here later.

Bikes lined up waiting for their riders to show up at the end of the hike. The hike section was about 23 miles and took us 9 hours, with a one-hour wrong turn included.

Linda put up this sign about 200 meters before the Bike Transition.

Then she put this one up just around the corner. Her idea of a joke wasn't appreciated by everyone.

Brij, the race judge, shows proper hula hoop technique. At each transition, they had us do 'fun' events. Here we had to hula hoop, and the other transition we had to play horseshoes and identify animal tracks and scat. Brian and I did very well at the

The first team into the Bike Transition. We played leap-frog with these guys for most of the day. They got ahead of us near the end of the bike leg because we all took a wrong turn. Brian and I realized the mistake and turned around. They guys were to

Brian and I arrive at the bike transition. The worst part of the race was the long downhill run to get to this point.

Brian and I ended up being well-matched for this race. He was a little faster on the bike and I was a little faster towards the end of the run, but overall we were able to go at a pretty fast pace that was comfortable for both of us. Our strategy was to

Brian does his hula-hooping.