Almost 40 folk turned up for Sunday's second Dragon's Training session. A great turn out on a very hot day.

As usual, arguably Hkg's No 1 Age grouper, Mike Maiers having got his swim together, blasted the course to finish the bike in equal first with the unfortunate recent consistent DNFer Mike Bucek. When Mike B again dropped out of the run due to his recurring calf injury, it left Mike with a fairly easy win over a rapidly improving newbie Dane Cantwell with ex HKG Squad Member Luke Wimbush  a close third.  Warren S assumably hurting in the run took fourth over our hard working Dragons Race organizer Paul Mcmahon who has obviously been a bit lax in the swim training.

Veteran swimmer/runner Jesse Chang was a very reluctant DNF due to his shoes disappearing during the bike leg, which left the Vets in the capable hands of Thai Based John Douma who put in a 6^th fastest run of the day somewhat handicapped by one of the slowest swims.

There was an unusual entry from the Dutch market who produced a Team that included the slowest swim and fastest bike of the day to add interest to the event. Also several newbies out there all added to the mixture. And the ex rugby playing Brownlee father and son continued their rivalry with son taking this one.

The ladies meanwhile, had a very interesting competition which saw Paul Ferrick take out first place in her first outing since the Brazilian IM. Claire Chapman, on a borrowed bike and Vangie Wimbush both had trouble with directions on the bike but were not disqualified in the spirit of involvement that the Dragons are trying to encourage.

Yours truly (Bikeman) DNF with the second puncture in his racing life to let Brian Goldberg and Nevin Price fight it out for the envied last place with Brian's 6 min faster swim/bike just enough to hold off  Nevin's 5 ½ min faster run by 3 seconds.

Bikeman will be back to claim his rightful last placing at next one so, Brian and Nevin, BEWARE!!

Would like to finish by offering serious thanks to Paul, Yvonne, Mike and the rest of the crazy officials who gave up their Sunday morning in bed to assist a bunch of loopy headcases in their attempts to die of heatstroke/exhaustion!!

Link for photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/revolution-asia/sets/72157600946069319/ (Thanks Nerida)