TARGETRAINING Relay Team wins battle of the sexes at REV 3 Tri
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 11:38AM The much anticipated REV 3 Half Ironman proved to be a monster of a course, but it was nothing that the TARGETRAINING Relay Team could not handle.
The weeks leading up to the race the TT relay team of Megan, Kristin and Eneas had been quietly preparing for what is the UN of endurance competitions. Flying under the radar we all met up in transition the morning of as we greeted familiar faces and kept calm before the start of what was to become a storm as other relay teams vowed for supremacy.
It was a nice change jumping out of the boys club that is road racing and joining our lovely, but seriously fit, TARGETRAININ Tri team laddies of Megan and Kristin. Megan was our swim expert, I the bike boy and Kristin was anchoring on a demanding run leg.
The gun was off and I relaxed in the transition waiting for Megan to come bounding out of the water. For those that don't know her, Megan is an open water national champion and can challenge any pro swim split. Sure enough Megan fought her way through traffic to clock 3rd best swim time and catch me off guard. Man that was a quick swim.
So off I went for an individual time trial on my P3. These kind of long solo efforts are a great test and I was looking forward to taking advantage of the perfect conditions. But fun as it is to do a 56mile time trial, I was glad to see fellow TARGETRAINING Member Eric Rouge marshaling at the 5K to go mark clad in his elegant medical wraps having made friends with a lovely pothole on his bike the day before.
Back in transition Krisitn was ready to go as I handed off our timing chip to her as she left us to defend our slim lead on the closing run leg. An hour and a half later, and countless rides on the ferris wheel with my son and wife, Kristin returned to the finish line successfully anchoring our team as we won the overall relay competition.
What a great display of class and team work as TARGETRAINING had the best podium girls of the race with Suzie finishing off the day with a stunning 2nd overall among amateurs.
The TT boys had excellent days as well as TT Member Delisi took 3rd in his age group, Tri team member David finishing 2nd in his group, and Mitch who sadly made a wrong turn on the run course to give away a very strong performance.
Reader Comments (1)
Thanks for the write-up Eneas; however, you forgot to mention that your time-trial effort yielded the fastest bike split of the day, even amongst the pros! Way to go! Kristin