Golden State Triathlon 2003
Here are a few video clips from this year's GST race. The team this year consisted of Lisa (swimmer), Mike (biker), and Klaus (runner). We placed 3rd this year in the relay category and had lots of fun participating. My cousin Mark also participated and Andra managed to get a few shots of him, too. I tried to compress the images into Windows Media Player format, but the software kept crashing on each attempt. To reduce the sizes to a reasonable level, I had to use RealPlayer Spyware format. My apologies. As much as I can't stand Microsoft's buggy software, RealPlayer and it's reporting back your shoe size every five minutes annoys me even more.
The first clip shows the race start and my attempt to make sure we get some politically correct audio on our race tape.
The second clip is Lisa exiting the river and running up the levee. This clip, when compressed into Realplayer format, was so blurry I gave up and made it an .mpg. It therefore is much larger than all the others (about 6meg), but at least it's crisp.
Andra caught me each time I completed a lap on the bike course.
She also caught Mark twice.
Finally, we have Klaus and Mark on the run. During the bike- run transition, our swimmer from last year and one of the owners of TBF Racing, Mark Shaw, spotted Klaus running out of the transition area. He was manning the microphone at the time and misremembers Klaus's name (Called him Hans). Fortunately, Andra caught the audio, but unfortunately missed filming us due to obstructions. So I've made two video clips of Klaus (a.k.a. Hans) running for the finish line, one with the real audio as he ran in and one with the announcer's comments from his transition area exit dubbed over the top. Enjoy.
KlausRealAudio.rm KlausFunAudio.rm MarkRun.rm
This keeps with the Klaus curse of never having his name properly mentioned on any of the race videos. Go Vickie Pell!