Clear Lake Triathlon 2011

You may remember that just a year ago Scott did his first tri at Clear Lake, reminder. It hardly seems like it has only been a year and has now become just part of our lives in our house. So not only was it exciting to celebrate a year of triathlons but we had SO many more people that we were cheering on this year!

This year Scott was participating in the Olympic distance so we got to see everyone else before we saw him which worked out well since there was no need to be in 2 places at once! We met up with Jess and after we saw Cassie, Erica & Jason come out of the water we headed down to the boats. Reagan got her wish and was able to get on one. Scott may or may not be in this pic I got off the boat:

We headed back down to the race and within a few minutes who did I see come out of the water

After he came out Jess and I took the kiddos over close to transition so we could see the runners come out after they returned their bikes. At this point it was time for a snack.

I sadly missed Cassie each time she came out but we were lucky enough to be able to see people at each point. 

 Erica getting ready for her run!

 Jason heading out!

After Jason headed out we went over to the finish as those doing to the Sprint Distance only had a 2 mile run.

 Erica coming in for the finish!

I missed Jason as I handed off Joe to him so they could run in together. SO cute!  We headed back to where we could see the runners come out and lo and behold who did we see:

I'm not sure if it was before or after we saw him but Jason told me he had crashed on his bike. I saw him running and assumed all was ok. I can see now on the pics that his elbow is bleeding. He has taken a spill previously so I wasn't too worried.  We stood around and chatted a bit until I felt like based on his run times I needed to head over to the finish and wait just in case. This is where things got interesting. Jess told me to look up and that he was on the other side of the finish. I was pretty confused thinking there is no way I could have missed him. I must have looked really confused and he mouthed to be across the finish, "I didn't finish". When he was able to cross over to us I have to say that the look of pure disappointment on his face was pretty heart wrenching. And then he turned around and I saw why. He headed over to the medical tent at this point.

It was a rough morning. He's never not finished. I'm sure he will go into plenty of detail on his blog.  I can tell you that after his crash he had a few medics ask him to stop so they could at least rinse off the wounds. Apparently the first one asked him if he wanted to stop and let them help and his reply was "Like hell!". He finally let someone clean it off after during his run and he cramped up and couldn't get back to running after that.

The road rash is pretty gross. It's across his back, on his arms, his elbow was pretty deep, on his hip, his but, his legs and his ankle had a pretty deep cut too. Here are some after pics when he got out of the shower.

My thought was at some point I bet everyone has a race that they do not finish for one reason or another. At least it is done and he can now move on. Next race is the Ironman in Austin!