Happy New Year!

Although it's been nice to have a long run of sunshine we definitely needed the 6 1/2 inches of rain that fell on Sonoma County this past weekend. As a result, the vineyards will soon be looking quite yellow (like the photo on the right) in the coming weeks. This is what wine country looks like during our winter...very different from the summer!
The 2012 Vineman season started out with a bang when the Ironman 70.3 Vineman sold out in 3 hours (much to our surprise). All of our other events are on track to sell out as well. This will be a first in Vineman history. This means more work for the Vineman staff. Although we've had a lot of free time for afternoon bike rides, late morning swims and extra long vacations it's time to get back to work securing permits, meeting with town and county officials,ordering competitor shirts, medals and race numbers, contacting volunteers and finalizing sponsor contracts....and that's just the beginning!
It looks as if the pending run course change for the Ironman 70.3 Vineman will be a definite! Once we have all the details hammered out the new run course will be posted on our website. Everything else remains the same for the 70.3 Vineman. There are no changes (that we know of!) for the Full Vineman and Barb's Race.
We are excited for the 2012 races and look forward to having a record number of participants this summer. We hope that if you are not racing Vineman this summer you'll come out and volunteer!