The Cape Henlopen triathlon is held at the state park in Cape Henlopen, Delaware. The triathlon was previously held in October but the weather was terrible the last two years so the race has been moved to June. We has a thunder and lightning storm pass through while we were setting up in transition. The race director kept announcing the swim was delayed and might be canceled but he wanted us to leave transition and head down to the beach. Naturally, everyone stayed in transition until the race director announced the "all clear" for the ocean swim. Then we had to hurry to the ocean which is rather far away. I was told to leave a pair of shoes along the path to wear back after the swim. This was my first ocean swim triathlon and I wasn't sure what to expect.
We barely made it to the starting line when the race director showed up and said 10 seconds, go, go, go! We had so swim through the waves to the buoy, then swim parallel to the shore until we made it to the last buoy and then head for the beach. It wasn't to bad of a swim. My wife yelled that Robert Hartman was 50 seconds ahead of me.
I made it through the dunes to the path, removed my wet suit, put on my shoes and ran for transition. Wearing shoes was worth the extra seconds it took to put them on.
The rest of the race went well and on the run I was able to chase down Robert Hartman to win my Age Group.
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