What is that? A bumble bee?! No, it's Claire primping herself for the cameras.Alternate caption: "Take me to your leader!"
This chick is not me. This chick doesn't even look like me, but her picture is in with mine. Her wetsuit: Zoot. Mine: Orca. Hers: long-sleeved. Mine: Sleeveless. Her eyes: Creapy blue. Mine: Brown. Although, looking at the goggles in her hand, I remember swimming next to her, until I sprinted away from her at the end. Haha!
Is that a face I make?! Really?! It looks like I'm saying, "ROAR, I'm coming to eat your babies!"
I was having helmet issues. The braids stuck out too much at the bottom forcing my helmet down on my forehead. I didn't know I looked like THAT much of a dork though! That's it. Next year I'm getting a "pointy helmet"!
Finally! A crosswise picture of me on the bike! I was hoping my arms would look WAY more ripped than that! And why do they always, ALWAYS get you with the leg closest to the camera bent?! You ALWAYS look fatter that way! (And yes, I know my bike looks silly with such large wheels, but I used to have more proportionate wheels and went MUCH slower).
Camera side bent leg AGAIN! Helmet issues AGAIN! I have yet to see a picture of me on the bike that I like!
No wonder my shoulders get sore! How can I even see out from under that thing?! Note: Camera side leg bent AGAIN!And of course the most pictures were taken on the run. What kind of sadists are these people?!
Proof that my feet do, in fact, leave the ground sometimes when I run. My shadow is short, so this must have been really early in the run. This picture also shows that I can get "cold runner syndrome" even when it's nearly 100* out! This one is my favorite because I have a smudge of something on my leg that makes it look like I have a muscle.
First loop. I think I'm such hot shit. I can still pick my feet up... a little.
Proof that my feet do, in fact, leave the ground sometimes when I run. My shadow is short, so this must have been really early in the run. This picture also shows that I can get "cold runner syndrome" even when it's nearly 100* out! This one is my favorite because I have a smudge of something on my leg that makes it look like I have a muscle.First loop. I think I'm such hot shit. I can still pick my feet up... a little.
Would you look at how much air I was getting in that stride?! Whew! I could be in a running shoe ad, I'm tellin' ya! Must be later on: long shadows.
Is that... an Adam's apple?!
What is going through my head at this moment: 'I hate my life, I hate my life!'
The awful Lap 2. My legs felt heavier than at any other point in the race. Funny how they look fatter in this picture than any other picture too. Look at that face: THAT is the face of suffering.
Low speed chase. The secret to my superhuman speed is the superior length of my stride. I strode a full 3 centimeters on every step of that final loop!
Digging deep to keep up my blistering 12-and-a-half-minute-mile pace.
Well I sure taught HIM a lesson! I don't think HE'll be back!Note: Look at all the salt on my ass! Also, not how it looks like my upper body is running, but my legs appear to be even, indicating I MUST be standing still.
I finish an ironman and THAT's the face I make?! (Note: my time is 10 minutes behind the clock time.) I find it ironic that this is the ONE picture where I have both feet off the ground.
I swear the arms in the air thing was not out of triumph at the time. It was because I thought I was going to get caught in the tape. I look like I'm about to fall over in this picture.
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Awesome...you have some good ones in there! SUCH AN AWESOME JOB!
Awesome pix girl! I love how you got to break the tape, so cool!
Great pics. I thought I looked fat in all my run pics too. I attribute it to water retention. When you lose that much salt you have to get sorta puffy. You look great though. No one looks like a movie star in the run portion of an IM. If you do you weren't working hard enough in the first 2 legs!
That last shot does look as though you've just tripped over the line. The next couple of photos would have been fun as you propelled forward.
You look like you were running like me in a few of those snaps, but at 12:30 min miles you probably were running like me.
By the way, how did 12 hrs cycling from the other week compare to 12 hrs of vineman?
That finish line shot is fantastic! Thanks for sharing your pics with us. Very curious as to how girl in the Zoot wound up in your pictures since you guys look nothing alike...
Not all the pictures were horrible, and WTF with the girl in the zoot suit?. About all the salt loss, some Hammer Endurolytes, or cheaper alternative ( pretzels, coke, or salt packets)will help replenish lost sodium and prevent the death march, although for as much as you were suffering you look pretty damn strong in the pics.
Yes I know any more corn and I could start making ethanol.
I looked at the Zoot pic. and had a moment of pause. Wait. That couldn't be...
You look far less creepy than her! The caption is fitting for that random pic.
I think the pics of YOU are good! What is important to note is that you are actually running in all of those marathon pics. That is awesome. You look good and you are too hard on yourself.
Don't you fucking hate it when people say that? I do. So I take it back. You are not hard on yourself. Why don't you be a little harder on youself already!
Also, did you have to look up all of those linguistic versions of nothing or did you know them all in your heart?
Something to think about...
not really, actually.
Oh, and tell me what you think of that Fitzgerald book! I'm very taken with it.
Oh, one last thing. Very interesting that we all look like lesbians. It's true that at first glance I peg all tri-men as gay. So do I look like a lesbian? I have often suspected I do, but I'm very curious about this. How do you know if someone is gay or not?
Could you write a post on this, please? I always think I know and then I'm always wrong. I think this is because I'm straight. Is this because I'm straight?
Okay, bye.
You look like a bad ass in all of those photos. Then again, you are a bad ass. Congrats again!
You look great in all the pix. I have the exact same Orca wetsuit too, it's this years', right? You look awesome Claire for real, and I think you just pedal realy fast which is why your leg is bent facing the camera. And you do look like you are truley suffering in those running pix. Cannot wait to do IMKY with you though you will have to wait for me to finish and it will be dark out when I do.
BAD ASS BITCH you are!
Wholly bad ass bitch!
You scare me.
Nice pictures though.
Mary is hilarious. All tri men do look gay, especially the ones who wear half shirts.
These pictures are FINE. So you're not smiling for the cameras all the time, that's not part of the program, you have to take care of business first.
You know all this, and know everything else I'd say probably, too. So I won't say it. Anyway, you look mighty good considering the ordeal. And if the pictures were so bad anyway you wouldn't post them, right?
sorry..lurking again..
good pics from the race...
mid 12's on the vineman....awesome job....speed racer....
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