First the really cool news from Lake Mills.  I cut a minute and half off my previous personal best and set a brand new personal record.  Compared to a lot of other people, that's still not fantastic, but for me I'm thrilled.  You can see my splits here, and the rest of the field's times here.

Of course, mother nature conspired to try to ruin the race.  About a half an hour before the first wave took off, we got a really nice downpour that lasted about 20 minutes.  Just enough to soak anything you didn't have covered, and wet down the roads to make them a little more slick.  In fact, there was one pretty spectacular crash coming into the transition from the bike leg when someone lost it going too fast and breaking too hard.

But despite the rain, I had a good race overall.  This is one of the best run events I do, and it's always a blast, this year being no exception.  I also had a little bit of fun with this cool license plate generator.  Do you think the DMV would let me get away with this one?