iron(wo)man

Finally! photos of Jodi the ultimate triathlete! See below for my narration.



This was the evening before the Ironman. They all had to ship their bikes to the site, so they had to put them back together and they had just gone for a little ride to make sure the bike fit right etc. This is Jodi fixing her bike/adjusting a setting.


Dad and Jodi the night before. They was after Jodi was adjusting her bike. Suzanne, Dad and I made a big pasta dinner for the triathletes this night and some of us had some wine from St. Francis winery.



Here is Jodi coming out of the water. She was the third person from her wave to come out of the water after the 2.4 mile swim. She rocked!

Here she is starting to take off her wetsuit (while she is running!)

Here is Jodi dropping off her swim bag to me. The swim transition was in a different place than the bike transition, so she gave us her swim stuff.


We saw her on her first loop of the bike course. She was going so fast I only got a shot of her from behind. But she looks pretty kick ass from behind, all down on her aerobars!

Here is jodi finishing the bike ride. She looked pretty good coming off the bike and her main complaint was that she needed to cool down before she started the marathon. So, she found some ice and put it in her shirt.


Here she is crossing the timing chip point.


This is Jodi finishing her first lap of the 3 laps she had to do for the marathon. She is handing over her totally soaked socks because they were giving her a big blister on the bottom of her feet. Instead she got a blister/rubber her heel raw from her shoes.


Here she is on the second lap--she looks great!


And this was right after she finished. It was awesome. She was in such better shape than most people who were coming through.

And here she is in the Med 'tent' getting her heels bandaged up. Look at how great she looks. She is practically glowing. The chicken soup helped restore some salt--but she couldn't finish it so she gave it to me- it was yummy!

I'm so proud of her--She accomplished something that very few people have accomplished. Hail to Jodi the Ironman!