Kathy Soltero:  I am Kathy Soltero with Metro Brokers TV.  Today we are on to the second annual Metro Brokers Triathlon at Cherry Creek Reservoir, couldn't ask for a better day, supporting Special Olympics and Adaptive Adventures, let's hear from some of the athletes.

Tim Hola:  the more fun races I have done only because it's at night, it's a good set up of sponsors or race directors.  It's just a good way to end the week to be honest and still have room to these stuffs on weekends as well, so it's a great start.

Sean O'Neill:  It's great it's on a Friday night you know its fun, afterwards good race.

Kathleen Allen:  It was fun; it was that I have never done a Triathlon at night before.  So its different routine and we are still waking up at 4 o'clock in the morning to go race and little different to try and have that pre race meal at 2 p.m instead of 3 a.m.

Mark Harrison:  I feel really good second year in a row.  I improved my time, got my wife to join this year and do it for the first time just another great event and I am kind of amazed at a bunch of real estate brokers can get together and as you can see put on an event that 200 triathletes want to come and join, so its real fun.

Bob Luna:  It is very exciting second annual one, turn out was incredible, we hardly had any no shows, you couldn't have asked for a better weather than what we have today.

Interviewer:  You know it is such a great event to have it on a Friday night, I keep hearing that over and over again from everybody and that's probably you are doing.

Mike Bradley:  Yeah it's from those who don't like to wake up early, I don't like to wake up early and all the triathlons were in the morning, so this worked out great the said we only allow evening events in which that's what we are looking for.

kathleen Allen:  Perfect.  In Australia last year in September I was honored to be on team USA I qualified and was able to go over to Gold Coast, Australia and compete and I finished sixth in my age group which was a huge, huge, huge accomplishment for me.

Kathleen Allen:  I was actually involved in a serious accident two, almost three years ago in August of 07.  I was training for the world championships at Hamburg Germany in five days before I was due to depart, I got hit by a truck and I broke my neck at C6, my back at T8, T10, T12, I broke both my wrists, I broke a rib.  I was in intensive care for a week I had a blood clot in my carotid artery, my right leg went out, I had six surgeries in my right leg and there was quite a bit of talk about losing my leg and when I was in ICU my husband made a phone call and he made a phone call to a dear friend of ours named Joe Berman and Joe Berman happens to be the man who started the charity Adaptive Adventures.  Joe Berman has been a friend of ours for years and my husband called him to say "They are talking about amputating my wife's leg and she loves to compete, could she compete as an adaptive athlete if they take off her leg?" and Joe said "Yeah we will take her on our team' and so even when I was in ICU my husband believed in me and he believed that I would raise again and spent a very long road back.

Mike Bradley:  We got on to Adaptive Adventures this year on top of Special Olympics because they provide more volunteers, more kayaks, more water and there is smaller Colorado based charity that are our donation really impacts them more than Special Olympics.  So it made sense to bring them in and we also got a tie with a Lodo's Bar and Grill, our primary sponsor so that it worked out really well.

Trish Downing:  I think it's great to have this as a benefit for Adaptive Adventures I mean that organization does such great things for people in chairs and bringing adaptive sports to all kinds of populations.

Matt Feeney:  Well this is quite a turn out here, this is our first year involved in the event and we are excited about it, lot of people, lot of excitement in the air, lot of good athletes, our fast Pascoe is on bikes and in the water and running as well.

Mark Harrison:  It's a Friday night you know and I think it speaks for itself when you can get a bunch of people together and get out and obviously raise money for two great charities and just get out and enjoy Colorado and that's what Metro Brokers is all about.

Bob Luna:  It's just amazing to see the determination the people had to complete this I mean they are out there doing it and I was [Voice Crossover] hats off to every last one of them.

Kathy Soltero:  There you have it, another successful year here at the Metro Brokers Triathlon at Cherry Creek and we are all looking forward to a third year next year.  I am Kathy Soltero with Metro Brokers TV.

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Metro Brokers, Inc. is thrilled to announce their second annual Triathlon Friday taking place on June 4, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. at Cherry Creek Reservoir, www.metrobrokerstriathlon.com. This event is open to the public and offers athletes the chance to compete in a triathlon in the evening, without having to get up at the crack of dawn. The event will include a fun-filled evening of activities perfect for the entire family including an awards ceremony, catered dinner, music and a Friday night party on the beach. This sprint-distance triathlon, benefiting the Special Olympics of Colorado and Adaptive Adventures, is the perfect way to kick-start the weekend and the triathlon season.

Last year's inaugural event was a huge success, raising several thousand dollars for Special Olympics of Colorado and bringing out nearly 200 racers. This year's event will benefit both the Special Olympics and Adaptive Adventures, an organization that creates life changing opportunities and adventures for people with physical disabilities, and is expected to attract an even bigger turn-out.

"We were delighted with the community response to last year's TriathlON Friday and believe this year is going to be bigger and better. We hope more people will come out to help raise more money and awareness for these two great causes," said Maria Cook, Executive Director of Metro Brokers Inc. "This event is open to everyone and will be more than a race, it will be a celebration."

To ensure an extraordinary event, Metro Brokers TriathlON Friday has enlisted the production help of Ian Adamson, founder of "24 Hour Events" and the man behind dozens of national and international competitions. Adamson is the most successful adventure racer of all time with seven world championship wins, 22 world championship podium finishes and 17 international adventure race championship titles.

Event festivities will begin with registration and packet-pickup at 4:00pm at the reservoir. The half-mile swim will start at 6:00pm followed by a 12-mile bike ride and a 3-mile run to the finish line. Triathletes can compete individually or as a relay team. The race will be divided into several age groups and prizes will be awarded to the winner of each group. Following the race, a party on the beach will ensue complete with catered dinner from Lodo's Bar and Grill, live music and an award ceremony. Early registration is going on now at a discounted rate. For more information or to register go to www.metrobrokerstriathlon.com.

"We encourage people of every age and skill level to participate in this great event," said Mike Bradley, Metro Broker and organizer of the race. "It's for a great cause and will be one of the few opportunities to do a triathlon on a beautiful summer evening, followed by a party!"

About Metro Brokers, Inc.

Metro Brokers, Inc. has been Colorado's leader in real estate, technology and services, for more than 30 years, offering independent real estate professionals a framework to succeed. Our network of nearly 2,000 highly experienced real estate professionals specialize in residential, commercial and investment properties and have access to ground breaking technologies, continuing education courses, and innovative marketing that help buyers and sellers make the most of their real estate transactions. Unlike most other real estate companies Metro Brokers, Inc. is actually owned and operated by its brokers.

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Interviewer: I'm Kathy Soltero with Metro Brokers TV. Today in the studio we have Mike Bradley. He is the broker owner of Metro Brokers Eagle View Properties and today he is going to be talking to us about our Metro Brokers Triathlon. Tell me about, first of all Mike, what is Metro Brokers Triathlon Friday all about?

Mike Bradley: Well Metro Brokers Triathlon Friday is in its second year this year and will be held on June 4, 2010 at Cherry Creek State Park. It's a sprint-distance triathlon which means it's a half-mile swim, a 12-mile bike and three-mile run, followed by a catered dinner and a party.

Interviewer: It sounds like a great time.

Mike Bradley: It is.

Interviewer: Why is Metro Brokers hosting a triathlon?

Mike Bradley: We wanted to kind of gear our events towards a younger market and really show that Metro Brokers is a Colorado-based company and we have good ties into the community. So we stepped away from the golf tournament atmosphere, where it's closed off and there is 60 people play all day. A triathlon allows us to open up state-wide, even expand outside the borders of the state, get that new audience and show them that we are unique, but we are here for Colorado and hundreds of participants come and do a triathlon and then the word spreads, and year and year it just gets bigger. So it seemed like a natural fit.

Interviewer: And last year there were how many of them?

Mike Bradley: Almost 200.

Interviewer: That is amazing for a first year.

Mike Bradley: Just for a first year. Yes.

Interviewer: That is - so you expect a lot more this year?

Mike Bradley: We are hoping to have at least 300.

Interviewer: Wow! That would be huge.

Mike Bradley: We are on pace to do that right now.

Interviewer: All right, well what makes this Metro Brokers Triathlon Friday so unique, you talked about its uniqueness?

Mike Bradley: Yeah, the thing that really makes it unique is that it's on a Friday. It's 6 p.m. on Friday versus all the other triathlons, pretty much crack of dawn. You got to get up at four in the morning, get your bike on the car get out to wherever it is. This allows you to work all day or work a half day...

Interviewer: And then go to triathlon.

Mike Bradley: And do triathlon, then you got your whole weekend free. And then we follow it up with a full catered dinner from our fantastic sponsor, Lodo's Bar & Grill. They bring out burgers and hot dogs and there is beer and it's a party atmosphere. So you get all done and then you got the rest of the weekend. And that's one of the coolest things about this event, plus it's one of the very first triathlons of the entire season. June 4th puts us, I think, the very first open water triathlon in the Denver Metro area of the year. There is some the very next day, but we are the very first ones with an early season.

Interviewer: That's awesome.

Mike Bradley: It's great and its tri, go ahead.

Interviewer: Okay, so now if somebody wants to register for it, where they can go?

Mike Bradley: MetroBrokersTriathlon.com, everything is online. You can either, print out the registration form, mail it in or go online and do it right there. It's very easy, all the information, the race maps, all our sponsors and everything is linked up right there.

Interviewer: What's also so great is you said Friday it starts and then you have the rest of your weekend. It sounds like a great time. Is there anything else you want people to know about it?

Mike Bradley: The other thing, the most common question's probably about the temperature of the water.

Interviewer: It will be chilly, right.

Mike Bradley: It is, outside temperate is about 80 degrees in June. You never know, in Colorado we could have tornadoes one day and then 90 degrees the next. But the most common question is, what's the temperature of the water? And it's cold. It's 58 degrees last year, was the temperature.

Interviewer: It's invigorating, right?

Mike Bradley: It certainly is. So it can also lead to problems, so we've partnered with WetSuitRental.com to get discounts on wet suits. And it's not a requirement at that temperature surprisingly, but it's highly recommended that you have a wet suit, and so we got that discount, so now it's at least warm and safe.

Interviewer: All right, so if you are interested in going out to the Metro Brokers Triathlon Friday it's June 4th, coming right around the corner.

Mike Bradley: That's 75 days away.

Interviewer: And you can go register online. It's really easy.

Mike Bradley: Exactly.

Interviewer: Thank you so much, Mike, for joining us today at Metro Brokers TV.

Mike Bradley: Okay, thank you.

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Metro BrokersTV:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV.  We are at the Inman Connect in San Francisco, 2009.  I am with Mike Bradley and Mike is the Chair for the MetroBrokers Technology Committee and Michael welcome to the show.

Mike Bradley:  Hi thank you Mark.

Metro BrokersTV:  Hey just to wrap up here, we went through three days real quick give away you can give our members out there and what you took from this year's Inman Connect?

Mike Bradley:  Well it seems this year the themes more of what's really working, there have been a lot of ideas over the last few years have come out, not all of those are still here, but there are things that are actually useful tools converging the video applications, social networking, mobile platforms all into one platform that actually does something, that actually isn't just an idea, just in for a market but its more in use, in the trenches and resulting in profitable results you know.

Metro BrokersTV:  Yeah so we are talking about return and investment, those technologies that agents and companies are using and people are actually getting leads, converting leads and making money.

Mike Bradley:  Exactly and just at this conference I got my first lead on Facebook while we were in a conference last night and was a friend from my school I haven't talked to him for 20 years and as I... there you go perfect application of social networking merging with mobile technology.  I have got Facebook on my iPhone, got the lead responded within minutes had a dialogue during the conference; I am showing on in two weeks.

Metro BrokersTV:  Yeah well that's really what that in a nutshell that's what it's about isn't it?

Mike Bradley:  That's exactly what it's about; you either have an iPhone, last year's conference after attending on like maybe I should get that technology, something like that based for itself right there.

Metro BrokersTV:  Yeah actually last year's event Brad was talking about the iPhone as the device not necessarily iPhone is a brand but that type of hand held mobile device to have.

Mike Bradley:  Yeah and then we saw things like augmented reality where we can hold up the phone and see a house maybe with a different [Inaudible] and all the data available to it right there on the overlay and this is coming down within a couple of years this is scary stuff but its very cool too.

Metro BrokersTV:  Any insight that you can take away as far as Chair for Technology at MetroBrokers that can help our organization?

Mike Bradley:  Well I think we are actually ahead of the curve in a lot of this, some of the things I saw today we are already doing and we just got to continue to innovate and take the ideas from here and act on them before anyone else does if we want to stay on that cutting edge.

Metro BrokersTV:  Great well once again Mike great to having you here you always had good information and hope to see you here next year.  For more great information about MetroBrokers our culture in our company make sure to go to metrobrokerstv.com.

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Metro Brokers TV:  And this is Mark Eibner with Metro Brokers TV and we are here at the first annual Metro Brokers Triathlon in here, and we are really here with the founder; Mike, congratulations.

Mike Bradley:  Thank you very much Mark.

Interviewer:  So, did you ever think a couple of springs ago when you came up with the big audacious idea of a Metro Broker triathlon would ever materialize?

Mike Bradley:  Yeah.  I had never had doubt, but this is great, seeing all these people out here; it seems be going very smoothly.

Interviewer:  Oh, yeah.  All the... everyone is liking the venue.  So, I just want to know how you got to be number one, but you came in 46th?

Mike Bradley:  I started 46th, that's why[Phonetic].

Interviewer:  Oh, is that what it was?

Mike Bradley:  Yeah, definitely.  I was the first to register, so you get number one.

Interviewer:  You definitely an inside... inside avenue there.

Mike Bradley:  You bet.

Interviewer:  So, you have been in some other triathlons then right?

Mike Bradley:  Yeah, I have done a couple.  This is my first of this year though.

Interviewer:  Without being prejudiced, how do you think the Metro Brokers one compared to some of the ones you have been in?

Mike Bradley:  So far, this is just as smooth as anything I have seen.  You know we have got the dinner afterwards.  We will see how it ends at the night.

Interviewer:  Yeah.  Is that pretty typical for triathlons as far as like food and beer and stuff?

Mike Bradley:  The ones I do, yeah.

Interviewer:  Oh!  You stick with the food and beer ones.

Mike Bradley:  I always make sure there is a meal and something to drink after, definitely.

Interviewer:  Yeah, well, great job.  I think everything has been pulled off.  It's been smooth; number one, number two winners have been real pleased with the venue.

Mike Bradley:  Super.  That is the best we could ask for.  It will just get bigger every year.

Interviewer:  You bet.  Where do you think we want to take this next year?

Mike Bradley:  300 to 400 people.

Interviewer:  And your goal this year was 200?

Mike Bradley:  200, I think we came right around there.

Interviewer:  Yeah, I had had heard 180 and there were about 16 walk ups.

Mike Bradley:  Yeah, that is fantastic.

Interviewer:  Congratulations Mike.  A great job man.

Mike Bradley:  Thank you very much Mark.  Thanks.

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