Great work by everyone that came out for some work on a holiday weekend.
Karl C – 2:36 @ 215 watts
Mike V – 2:45:53 @ 177 watts
Katie A – 2:46:47 @ 171 watts
Katy L -2:54:58 @ 156 watts
Jody B – 3:09:57 @ 139 watts
Sherry F – 3:17:40 @ 115 watts
Elaine G – 3:27:04 @ 117 watts
Good Times (sort of) in Boise
A few quick notes here on the Boise 70.3 as I am late to the game as far as race reports go and I don’t simply want to repeat what everyone else has already said.
Boise is a really pretty town with a great vibe, I highly recommend a visit (stay downtown)
The country side is beautiful
The course, on a good day, would be very, very fast
Yes, it was ridiculously windy and I, like Felipe and Chris, was riding a disc. Not great under any circumstances but with my lack of bike handling skills…..fugetaboutit
The water was cold, but the air temp was warm = not so bad. Loved the first race in the new DeSotto suit
Easily the best run course I have seen along and over the river on very fast (on a good day) route
Big congrats to all of Team Breakaway racers but especially Whitney for backing up St. George with another AG win and a slot to Clearwater and C. Berg for 2nd AG and a return trip to Clearwater
And finally it was especially great to see my good friend Ben and his wife who DROVE up from Boulder to race (Ben) and hang out after.
Best of all there don’t appear to be any injury set backs. I only had 3, 6 mile runs coming into Boise and I didn’t know what to expect. Out of the water 71st, off the bike 21st and 12th to finish off the run for my best half Ironman placement. Next time out I plan to be joining the Clearwater crew……
Thanks to Adam and Catlin at Thrive Wellness as well as Nick at Muscle Specialists for putting me back together!
Next up IM Switzerland.
Nice job everyone with a stand out ride from Jon Lucas and a great comeback from a 10 min + mechanical/flat for Zach!!
Jon Lucas 2:52 196 watts
Trevor Blair 2:58 178 watts
Zach Barhorst 2:59 204 watts
Gene Yeo 3:05 167 watts
Maire Scharpegge 3:13 134 watts (5 min improvement!)
Sheila Birtsas 3:20 137 watts
Ron Kelly 3:23 152 watts
Elaine Gower 3:31 117 watts
Go tear it up on race day!
We had another full house this past weekend, during the countdown to Cal 70.3. Those lucky enough to sign up in time stayed dry as they rode the course in preparation for the 27th race date. Here are the final times:
and Sunday we rode Wildflower, here are those times:
Great job to everyone!
I think we are officially off and running. This Saturday past we participated in the Stagecoach Century 100 mile Team Time Trial. Felipe, Chris, Joe and I formed a 4 man team that works together to cover the distance as quickly as possible and at least 3 guys have to finish. Felipe and Chris are super strong so they did nearly all the work and also nearly popped me out the back in the process. It was all I could do for the first half to hang on for my life. We got the lead early after passing the team that started just before us and built into it for the first 35 miles. Going up one of the steeper climbs of the day right about that 35 mile mark Felipe got an unfortunate flat. Worse than that however was that when he went to fix the flat he noticed the seat on his new bike was dangerously loose. The seat had to be removed and reassembled as well as the flat changed. The whole process took all of 20 minutes. I used the time to slowly roll up the road in recovery mode to be ready to jump back on the Felipe/Chris express on the way home. As expected when they rolled up they rolled with a full head of steam. Our ride time of 4 hours 50 minutes was 9 minutes faster than the previous course record but when you tack on the down time for the mechanical we were unfortunately out of contention for the record and the win on the day. It was a great experience for me to race as part of a team and it was one of the more challenging things I have done as usually I race alone and as such, I race within my limits. Racing at someone else’s limit is a whole different type of suffer-fest. Thanks to Felipe and Chris for working so hard and thanks to Joe for being strong to the end.
So with that I am back in full on training mode gearing up for the Boston Marathon, Boise 70.3 and Ironman Switzerland (with lots of small B and C races in between). Today was a 2 mile swim and I am off shortly for some strength training and then a massage that will hopefully sort out the low back/lower extremities problems I have been battling since the holidays. This Saturday will be our second go of the year on the Computrainer system at Aire Urban and I will leading the session on the California 70.3 course. Pretty soon we will switch it up and start running the Wildflower course as well. Hope to see you down at Aire.