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Thanks J. for the quote and Dave for the pics.

That quote was from my friend Bryan. It made me smile. He knows how much work I put into this and it wrapped up my day pretty well. I thought things were going to go better for me on Sunday. It just wasn’t my day. 11:02 was pretty far off the pace. You can’t fake it in Ironman. When things go wrong they go very wrong and it hurts. Last year I was 42 minutes faster and looking back it seemed easy. This year it really hurt.
On the positive sides of things I have finished Ironman 4 times and that alone is a major accomplishment.
Time to kick back now and relax for a while.

My sister wrote another article for the Missoula Independent. Good to see her writing making it on the front page this time around. It’s an interesting story about managing open space in Missoula. As expected very detailed and thorough.

As Missoula continues to save more open space, it’s becoming clear that acquiring property is only the first step in a process that includes maintaining those lands. Unless you’ve just stepped off a bus from some suburbanized concrete world, or are simply in denial, you’re probably aware that the West has a weed problem, and it’s serious.

Here is a link to the rest of the article.

After visiting my sister in Missoula, she reminded me that back in March she wrote her first article for the High Country News. Since then, she’s been hired for some more jobs so I’ll be promoting them here as they are released. In the mean time, here’s the High Country News article from March:

Down but not out in Missoula, Montana

The American dream is alive and well in Missoula, Mont., sort of. Not long after arriving here in the late 1990s, I found myself in the same conversation about real estate, hearing the same words and sharing the same sentiment. “You can’t eat the landscape,” someone would say, and everyone within earshot would laugh at the cliché, though it would usually be followed by an uncomfortable silence. Here’s what wasn’t funny then or now: In a recent Missoulian article, local realtors tallied their statistics and calculated a whopping $206,850 median price for a house, but only a median income of $43,200…

Read the rest of the article at the High Country News

I went down to Bloomington Indiana to ride with a bunch of strangers for 3 days. I’ve been riding long enough to know I can get along with about anyone who rides a bike.

While I met a lot of interesting people there. PHD’s, a state trooper, a publisher, a pro mountain athlete. It was the “professional humorist” that was by far the most entertaining.

Jef Mallet draws “Frazz” the cycling janitor. Which is syndicated in 125 newspapers. He has a pretty big following and writes a lot of things he likes into the strip like cycling, triathlon, music, books, etc. Very entertaining guy.
I’ve got to figure out a way into one of his strips.