Hot, Hot, Hot! Cars, Cars, Cars! Nothing to do but grin and bear it, and observe nature.

An 11-year-old triathlete from Brooklyn, Macy Putka, who started off in the third wave, wound up winning the I-Tri program’s 10th youth triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach on Saturday in 35 minutes and 59.27 seconds, besting a record turnout of 145 entrants.

Baker, fresh from a fifth-place finish in the badminton tournament at the national senior games in Albuquerque, played golf, basketball, and baseball at East Hampton High School, whose Hall of Fame he’ll enter this fall as a member of Bonac’s 1965-66 championship boys hoop team.

Surfers from 7 to 70 took to the waters at Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk on Saturday for the 21st annual Rell Sunn Surf Contest, with all proceeds going to local families “encountering financial hardships due to debilitating illnesses or other tragic circumstances.”