 The triathlon begins with a 1-mile sunrise walk up the Hudson River shoreline. |
 The path becomes extremely narrow along a busy parkway for a quarter mile. |
 Looking back at the parade. |
 Starting area, pro and elite athletes start first. |
 In the number 2 position is Orlando area resident and Olympic athlete, Hunter Kemper. Number 1 won $120,000 last weekend in another triathlon. |
 And at 5:50am, they're off! Approximately 4,000 athletes will follow in stages for the next two hours. |
 Some of the staging fences, with the pro men churning the river. |
 The pro women follow. This is one of the fastest triathlon swims, the Hudson River is swift. |
 Athletes continue to pour in, as I "swim" down river in the opposite direction. |
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 Another barge with a ramp into the water forms the swim finish line. |
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 Steeply curved uphill for the bike start. |
 Cyclists head north along the shore for an out and back. |
 Hunter Kemper, number 3 at this point, a half mile into the run. |
 Small uphill in the canyons of the West Side, to Central Park. |
 First woman. |
 Second woman, down into a lap of Central Park. |
 I have no photos of the Triathlon finish -- I had to catch my plane home. (It's the same finish area as in the Underwear Run.) |
 However, I discovered a new running route in Central Park. The horse path is unpaved and lovely! |
 This is also a nice view of Central Park, of the Sheep Meadow section. |
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 Just north of the Sheep Meadow is the Boat Lake. The Northwest section of the lake is drained and being refurbished. Note the temporary wall, allowing the rest of the lake to be used for boating in the summer. |
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