Triathlon

The question at the begin of the event was: Will Team 1 be able to compete with Jesse ? No, Jesse was too strong this time, improving his own PR by more than 4 minutes.
Nine runners did their first VICRunners triathlon today, and the results were very promising.
Many more pictures on
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Participants came with wives, daughters, friends _ an unusually huge crowd on Donauinsel at that time of the day. We were lucky with the weather: the rain stopped before the event and resumed afterwards.

After our usual starting place on the east bank of the Neue Donau had been converted into a "family beach", we had to find a new one which is a swimming platform on the west bank. The distance of the swimming course was therefore, however, at least 100m shorter. That is why today's triathlon will not be considered for PRs and records - sorry, Matteo.
For the next triathlon we will adjust the swimming part to match the usual distance.

Just in time the red flag has been removed after the big flood to allow a proper triathlon.
The comebacks of the year: Frannie joins again after more than 7 years, Patrick after more than 6 years - good to see both of you again !
Julia improves her PR by more than 8 minutes.

The VIC triathlon record is once more back with Beate, Alfred improved his own VR by 2 minutes. Michael improved his own PR from 9 years ago by 10 minutes and promises another PR for 2017.