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According to multi-year veterans, this year’s bike leg was the toughest in many years. The wind on Queen K featured 35 mph gusts, hard enough to wear one down, but the real kicker was that it turned into a headwind … Continue reading
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The bike leg is the hardest to watch as a spectator because there are so few vantage points. There’s a quick spectator-friendly out’n’back on Kuakini Highway before the route turns up to Queen Kaahumanu (“Queen K”) Highway and the cyclists … Continue reading
Triathlons aren’t for late-sleepers. Kona starts the pros at 6:30 AM, the age-groupers at 7 AM, which means racers have until midnight (17 hours) before the lights go out and they get a DNF behind their name. The Dynamo racers … Continue reading
As the 23-year-old son of Jack and Betsy and Kathryn’s youngest brother, I will be providing the blog with the entitled arrogance of a youngest child and the chagrin of an English major who is dealing with the harsh repercussions … Continue reading
Friday–the day before Race Day–and our first order of business was to check in with the Dyamo crew. We drove down to their their pad on the ocean along Alii Drive, which is the main street of Kona and a … Continue reading