Aluminium Matron?

Well I knocked off a half-ironman.  No problem!  Well, a bit of sunburn but otherwise it was a fun day!  I can see why people get addicted.  It was fun out there.

So aluminium has half the atomic weight of iron (thanks Steve) hence I can surrender my Aluminiummaiden status for the more wordly "matron" status.  Hopefully in a few months time I'll be doing the same with a much heavier element.  I am so glad my friends are geeks like me.  Who use words like "hence".  And "thus".  And worry about whether it should be atomic mass or atomic weight and so ask google and get confused and then wonder if it matters and...hang on, I lost my train of thought.

It was dark and drizzling when I got up on Saturday (the little hand somewhere near the 4 by the way), but the lake was flat and warm, there was an unusual tail wind coming back from Reporoa, and the run was a cheerful wheezy shuffle up and down the lake front.  I enjoyed myself and was evidentally grinning like an idiot because random strangers were coming up to me afterwards commenting on my smile (possibly they were confused by my orc-grimace combined with my sunburn?).

It was a good day all round, one of those days when everything just went according to plan.  The swim was fairly argybargy, but I seemed to stay calm, even when one guy swam acrosson top of me heading to Turangi.  I checked my navigation, I was on course, he had the problem, so I just let him go.   Blokes never are too keen to stop and ask directions.

My time was 7:24:50.  You may be surprised to hear that Sam Warriner won, rather than me.  Her time was a slightly smaller number.