Posts made in August, 2006

Race Report: 2nd Overall at Vineman

Posted by David on Aug 18, 2006 in Blog, Ironman, Race Reports, Triathlons, Vineman | 0 comments

“Since 1990,” states the t-shirts from the 2006 Vineman iron-distance event. This was the 17th year of one of the oldest Iron-distance events in the country – a classic. Vineman took place on August 12 in Santa Rosa, California in the heart of California’s wine country – Sonoma County and the Russian River Valley. The race for me began at mile 90 on the bike. Although I swam almost the entire 2.4-mile swim by myself with no one around me to draft off of, I came out of the water in a little more than 58 minutes in about tenth or twelfth pace. There was a pack a few minutes in...