The Ironman Weekend

This past weekend Lake Placid was hosting probably one of the toughest sports competitions one can imagine. On Sunday morning more than 2,300 athletes started a race in which they had to swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and at the end run a marathon distance of 26.2 miles. It must have been a real challenge--especially in the pouring rain we had on Sunday.



It's been a tradition here, that during the weekend of Ironman Competition in town, campers compete in different sports with the counselors. On Saturday, the counselors' team had to face three teams one after another. On each of those teams were playing all campers from each grade. The counselors took this challenge quite seriously not allowing any of those teams to win. More pictures are here.

Sunday morning began for some of us with seeing the start or the real Ironman Competition in Lake Placid. A group of 9 campers and 2 counselors gathered at 6.10 AM and went to town to see the beginning of the race. As soon as they came back the rain started to fall. And didn't stop until the evening. Because of that we had to postpone another Campers vs. Counselors game and we started to compete in slightly different way...

This time the task was more to show the engineering skills rather that the strength of muscles. Teams of three people, having $5 and a not greatly supplied camp store had to design some kind of device that would help an egg to survive a fall from different heights.

We could use supplies like cardboard, plastic cups, cotton balls or plastic bags. After about an hour of preparing, dropping began. First, from waistline, after that from shoulders and above the head. A Couple of eggs still survived that, so we were moving up - dropping the eggs from standing on a chair, table, loft and finally from the silo (about 50 feet).

Much to surprise of many, three eggs survived even this crushing experience... The designers of these protection devices were Ruben, Joelve and Freddie; counselors, and Awildo - one of the shop owners... Click here to see the pictures.