Wellington Triathlon

Nicola went to take part in the Wellington triathlon on Saturday, which was being held in Oriental Bay. As you may know, a standard triathlon involves a 1.5km swim, a 40km cycle ride, and a 10km run. Here’s the cyclists doing their cycling thingy:

Nicola’s role in all this was not to compete, but to act as a marshall, keeping unwary pedestrians from crossing the road and being mown down by a horde of unstoppable cyclists.

Nicola indicates the direction from which cyclists may appear

Naturally, she went mad with the power of the high-visibility vest, and had to be forcibly restrained from setting up a secret HQ in an extinct volcano and assembling a private army of  minions and henchpersons.

It was a lovely day, so after we’d been back to the finish line to hand in the high-visibility vest, we went for lunch in a café on Oriental Parade – underneath the ill-fated White House restaurant, as it happens. There we had a happy lunch, accompanied (in my case) with a glass (or two) of Tuatara APA, or American Pale Ale, a distinctly hoppy brew. The rest of the day we spent idling about, as we can do in the last days of the Antipodean summer.