A view from the bike course yesterday, with some Stravinsky and Dvorak for good measure...

Check out video from the heart of the bike course as part of the Lake Worth Tropical Triathlon. There are two videos in this playlist. Both are taken from the intersection of Federal Hwy. and Lucerne Avenue. The first one is a view looking southeast and shows the intersection where the first right turn on the course happens. You see the bikes make the turn north on Federal Hwy. Later on, you can see bicyclists turn right on Lucerne and head west through the downtown. They then turned left on J Street and then headed east on Lake Avenue, where they turned right to head south on Federal Hwy. Later on in the first video, you can see the leaders make their way on the second loop north on Federal, while we still see others make the first right turn and the turn into the downtown.

In the second video, the view is from the same location looking north along Federal and you can see bicyclists making their way north and merging with other athletes that are still coming from the bridge. You can also see the participants on their way to make the right turn on to Lucerne. And, yes, that is yours truly directing the bicyclists to "Slow down, everybody turns right, stay to the right..." and on and on. We had more people south of the intersection at Lake and Federal where bikes had to split off to the left if they were completing their first loop and to the right to head back to the beach if it was their second loop. The total length of the bike course was 13 miles.

All this couldn't have been accomplished without a good representation of PBSO officers and vehicles and a large contingent of volunteers. I am pleased to report that even with all the complications present in the course, there were no major mishaps on the bike course. The only one that I can recall was an instance where a regular non-contestant on a bike crossed Federal at the wrong time and hit a bike that was part of the race. That caused a delay for the rider involved, but she was able to continue through the event.