Cruising Friends John and Cheryl Visit for the Weekend

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This weekend we thoroughly enjoyed hosting our good friends Cheryl and John from Toronto. They had planned it so that Cheryl could participate in the Brights Grove Olympic Distance Triathelon on Saturday. John drove here alone on Friday and stayed with us at our condo.  

John and I enjoyed a few rum drinks and talked until midnight on the Phoenix at our dock.

Cheryl drove down with her other athletic participant friends and stayed Friday night with her friend Courtney at Courney's parents home downriver in Sombra. She met up with us after the race on Saturday.

Saturday morning was the beginning of the 87th Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Sailboat Race which starts about three miles from the bridge out in Lake Huron. Hundreds of people line the shores of the St. Clair River to watch the boats parade out to the starting line. There are large festivities on either side of the river all weekend.

Wendy and John pose for a picture with some boats, the casino and the bridge in the background. It was already in the mid eighties by 10 am when I took this picture and we all thought of Cheryl who was swimming, biking and running in the Triathelon in this exceptionally hot weather. Fortunately it was overcast so the blast-furnace temperatures of the past  few days was abated somewhat. It was very still and sticky, humid though. We were all hot just standing, watching the boats. I don't know how Cheryl does it!

Here's the breakdown for the Triathelon that Cheryl participated in:

Olympic Distance Triathlon
Swim 1300m, Bike 40 Km, Run 10 Km

Cheryl and Tracy held the pace together.

The clock at the right shows the finish at three hours eleven minutes. Wow!

Cheryl was so hot she said she could no longer sweat. There wasn't a breath of wind and the humidity made it feel like 95. Over 100 people started out with 95 finishing. How do they do it?

Unwinding after the race.
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