Iron man Cairns

 We had no idea that this was scheduled while we would be visiting.

The start at 7.38am and it was a staggered start. There were two different ones, a long one or the short course.

Long one consisted of 3.9km swim in the sea, followed by a 190 km bike ride up and around Pt Douglas, we drive that road last year, very pretty but windy and if course hilly. Then finally there was a 42 km run.

Short course was 1.9k swim, 90 k ride and a half marathon, 21 k run.

We walked down and saw some riders coming in and then running out again.

We almost saw a guy come off his bike at this turn. There was a group of about a dozen in a short time, he was able to pull his bike around so there was not a fall.