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St George Utah is a very scenic place and Utah is close for me, so I could drive there and not worry about shipping my bike. May temperatures in Utah should be no worse than April in Arizona was last year. It would be a beautiful area to race in, but I am wondering how tough the course is going to be. I remember pulling our camper through this area years ago and remember some brutal climbs, but I don't know how they have mapped the course will lay out. Has anyone done a mapmyrun or mapmytri on this yet? Anyone already register for this? Leave me a comment or shout out on Twitter .

Grant Baird has a great website about triathlon. He has pieces of information on many of the racers and races. He either takes the pictures himself or finds other photographers willing to share some shots. He has featured a bunch of shots from several different photographers for Ironman Arizona last weekend including about 5 of mine. Take a look at his IMAZ November page and see some great shots. It is always fun to watch the professionals, especially when you see the leaders really moving by. At this point, Joanna Zeiger was only about 13 minutes behind the lead men by my watch. Feel free to drop by Flowing Desert Photography and see more of my pictures. If you like what you see, please feel free to rate your favorite pictures (at least a quick thumbs up is appreciated) and tell your friends about it. Thanks.

I went out to the SOMA triathlon this past Sunday to take some pictures. I managed to take some pictures (about 400 before I reviewed them and deleted the worst of the missed shots). I wanted to practice my Sports Photography and give some of my fellow triathletes some photographic alternatives. Besides my own club, ESCKTC (East Side Cool Kids Tri Club), some of the people I caught decent shots of included members of Tri Club of San Diego (TCSD), Team In Training, AZ Tri Club, Banas, Tribe and Freak Factor in their pink uniforms. If you know people from these clubs, please have them check out my site. I will keep the SOMA pics up for a month. BTW, the SOMA pictures are basically "at cost", my profit is under a dollar per shot, which when you factor my time (over 6 hours not counting travel time) means I am really giving these away for my love of triathlon. It is all worth it when I get a shot that I love like this one: If you were in the race, if you know someone that ...

April 13, 2008 - Ironman Arizona (AZ) 2.4 mile swim + 112 mile bike + 26.2 mile run = 140.6 Pre-Race Buildup This was my biggest target race for 2008 and I decided to take some time off of work to minimize stress and maximize the enjoyment and recovery. Thursday was when registration opened, so as I was out and around anyway, I decided to try and register. Since I didn't have my USAT card with me, I had to wait till Friday to register. I needed to go back Friday anyway for the welcome dinner and mandatory athletes meeting so no big deal there. I had been thinking about a new helmet anyway, so I stopped at a tri-shop that is a sponsor of ours, Focus Cyclery, to take a look at what they had and get some ideas on helmet selection. I ended up with this one: Turned out to be a GREAT choice. The guy that helped me out really knew what he was talking about. The helmet I had been using, probably protected my head enough, but this one not only protected, but also helped to ventilate ...