Studman in the Spudman

This year Barry signed up to race his first triathlon, the Idaho Spudman!
The Spudman Triathlon features a 1.5K swim in the Snake River, a 40K bike ride and a 10K run.
It is held in Burley, Idaho every year. This year there was over 1700 racers. It was awesome!

Ack! Mom made me get up too EARLY!

 He's just too cute, sorry, had to throw THIS one in here again!

 IT was an EARLY morning for us, and I mean a get-up and-try-and-leave-at-4:30-in-the-morning early.... We made it! I'm so glad it wasn't me having to get into that COLD water. Most of the racer had wetsuits.

 Feeling the sunrise to warm our faces.

surveying the area

 I sure am proud of this man. He has lost more than 40 pounds and gained a lot of muscles in the last 7 months. He has put in a lot of hard work and determination into preparing for this race.
Since I met Barry, I have always thought as him as my Super Man, and today and for the last few months he really has proved it! Way to go Dear, you amaze me!

 See! lots of people.

 Suiting up! Ready to go. Ear plugs and dorky, but necessary swim cap. The racers were divided up into waves. I think there was 8 different groups with different start times. Barry was in the  5th group, the BLUE cap group with a 7:30am start time.

 Yeah. Totally don't know which one he was. :D He hung back a bit he said, so more towards the back to start off with. The yellow buoy thing is the start line. The race is in the Snake River, so there is definitely a current. They were fortunately swimming with the current, though dozens of people had a hard time staying behind the start line until the race started.

and they're off!!! still don't have a clue which one he is, but we cheered anyway!

After, completing the swim, the racers jumped on their bikes, in Barry's case his Mountain bike, and biked the next leg of the race. I believe out of the approximate 1700 racers that I saw, I saw one other mountain bike. But, it was Barry, so he trashed them all on their fancy road bikes.
No, the above picture is not of him, my camera jammed up just when he came by, I was so sad. He's on the other side of the fence with the grey shirt and a red helmet.