With a literally breathtaking mountain lake swim; 13% grade climbs into bombing downhill hairpin turns; and, like the race website promises, a “challenging high altitude run” – the Huntington Lake Triathlon was a real, live, super fun sprint at 7,000’ elevation in Lakeshore, CA.

After randomly receiving an email for this race on Wednesday, July 22nd, as a member of the Purple Patch Squad I was more than prepared to drive up and hit it on Sunday, July 26th.

Thank you, Purple Patch, for not only ensuring that I be race ready in these uncertain times, but for empowering me to continue to grow and thrive as an athlete and a person. Finishing 4th place overall at this small, yet highly competitive event, was icing on the cake!

I can’t thank you enough, and to all other PP athletes, keep an eye out for races in the foothills!

Your fellow Squaddy,

Dominik Machado

P.S. I was proudly rocking my Purple Patch visor ;) 

https://results.rmraces.live/Sierra-Cascades-Multisport/events/2020/Huntington-Lake-Triathlon/357/entrant/share

Swim: 00:10:08

T1:      00:00:50

Bike:   00:33:55

T2:      00:00:35

Run:   00:23:51

Total:  01:09:21