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Approximately 100 of these 384 sprint competitors on Sunday were doubling their fun after finishing the Olympic distance race Saturday. Others were relative newcomers, in the process of working their way up to Olympic distance some day.

But what everybody got after the burning heat and soggy humidity of Saturday’s Olympic distance race was a grateful change in the weather to a cool, wet morning. And, thankfully, the brief lightning storm came after the swim and quit before the race had to be delayed or canceled.

When it was over, 25-year-old Patrick Parish of Circle Pines, Minnesota broke the 1-hour barrier and 17-year-old Katie June of Roswell Georgia finished in 1:06:44 to take took home top overall honors.

All photographs © by Timothy Carlson