The Family

The Ilmanen Family

Our motto: The family that telecommutes to Thanksgiving Dinner will never have arguments.

Gary, Mike, and Sandi

Mike has taken up the sport known as Tri, short for Triathalon. For you couch potatoes,that means swimming, then bike riding, then running -- all in one day! And to make it a challange, a whole bunch of Triathaletes get together and do it at the same time, as a race. The Tri's are made up of various distances, but are approximately the same regardless of the location they are run. Mike most recently ran the LA Triathalon and placed #679 out of a field of 1527, with a time of 2:34:42. Way to go, Mike!! This consisted of a

Swim: 1.5K (.9 miles)---Venice Beach
Mike's Time and Place: 0:18:34 685

Cycle: 40 Kilometer (24 miles)---Hollywood and surrounding areas
Mike's Time and Place: 1:20:17 939

Run: 10 Kilometers (6.2 miles)---Downtown
Mike's Time and Place: 0:48:40 569

Yes!! I finally extracted the pictures from the Big Bear competion.

. . . and here is Mike with some friends and their toys

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