Training Transition was racing around California this weekend!
Here are the results:
OC Half Marathon:
Pam Sholly: 1:56:20. Poor Pam was drying her hair prior to running what was supposed to be the OC Marathon and pulled a muscle in her diaphragm, so decided to run the half. She's already looking for another qualifier for the Boston Marathon for 2011. Good luck Pam!
Erin Hesford: 2:01:29 It sounds like a queue at the bathroom squashed a sub 2 hour hope, but Erin has a Half Ironman in Hawaii in her sights next month, so all focus will be on that now. Well done Erin
Spring Sprint
Cara DeHaan: 1:01:56, 2nd place, 35-39 age group (only 14 secs behind 1st)and 10th overall (including Elites). Well done Cara. 3rd out of the swim, moved into 2nd on the bike and held 2nd to the end.
Wildflower 70.3
Camping under the stars, naked aid stations, Wildfllwer has it all!
Kirsten Sage: Brilliant race and effort. Since I met Kirsten on her first training ride (when we had a 30 mile ride planned and she mentioned she usually rode 14 miles but would give it a go - and she did the whole ride, no stops, no complaints), I knew she had a special characteristic of amazing determination. Kirsten worked hard throughout the whole race, a cold swim, bike course which included as many hills as the organizers could find in a hill infested piece of the counrty, battled cramps from mile 9 on the run (well, if you can call 20 plus degree gradients on rough trails a run! to finish in 7:08:20. I should also add a plug for Carleton, her husband who was their supporting her with their 2 and 4 year old for the entire time!
Terra: And Terra...6:34:08. Waiting on a full report from Terra as I haven't talked to her yet, but I saw her finishing and she was still running! Well done Terra. In difficult circumstances you are doing amazingly well.
Well done everyone. You all made me SO PROUD!
Bring on Encinitas.......
Rachel
