Day 4 - Lemmon

           Today was a beautiful, calm and very hot day in the desert; in the morning we had a short tech swim at the beautiful U of A pool. Following a quick stop at home we set out for Mt. Lemmon. The guys and Stevie set out from home, well Darian and the rest of the girls got dropped off a few miles before mile 0. For those who don’t know Mt. Lemmon is a 27 mile climb from mile 0 to the ski hill at the top (yes there is a ski hill in Tucson, and yes it was open today with plenty of snow everywhere). The top of the mountain is just over 9000 ft high. Almost everyone made it up to the top and grabbed some souvenir stickers, giant cookies, pizza or pie. The descent was fast and windless making it safe and super fun! With the ride back to the house it was a total of 120 km and 4.5 hours for the older group and around 85 for the younger group.  We followed up the ride with a 15-minute run off the bike. Congratulations to everyone who made it to the top and all the people who didn’t quite make it but gave a good effort.

            The events of the evening included ice baths in a garbage can and a trip to Tri Sports for some shopping. Tyler finally got some goggles that work and now he will be able to see the clock so he won’t have to make up times when Craig asks what he went. 

Here are some pictures from today: (some of the colours are weird because Tyler's camera is kinda weird)