Mossman Race Report

When I signed up for the Mossman Sprint Triathlon, I wasn't really paying attention to the fact that I had the Rhode Island 70.3 exactly one week prior.  I started paying attention when I realized how much the half Ironman kicked my butt! But I still planned on participating in the Mossman and I'm glad I did! By the end of the week, I was actually looking forward to a short, fast race despite still not being 100%. But I gave it all I had yesterday and ended up 2nd overall woman, coming in behind our own Megan Kelly! 

    

When you are as strong a swimmer as Megan, it makes it REALLY hard for others to make up the distance over the remaining 12 mile bike and 5k run. Basically, Megan was out of the water while the rest of us mortals were still rounding the first buoy :).  She came out of the water almost three minutes ahead of me (a 9:15 to my 11:59), maintained her lead with a 1 minute faster bike split (32:36 to my 33:37), and even with my 19:00 5k, I still couldn't catch her (she had a great run as well in 21:19)! Overall, she had a course record crushing 1:04:46 and I had a 1:06:35.  Next head to head for us, the Greenwich Tri on August 2nd!  

Congrats to all the other Targetraining rock stars- 

Jon "Bax" Baxendale was 2nd in his age group, 7th overall! 

Laurie Cizek-Brannigan was 2nd in her age-group (Pascale was actually third overall female, moving Laurie up to 2nd!) and 8th woman overall!  

Oakes Ames won his age group (of course:). 

David Booth was 2nd in his age group and 14th overall (after a crazy Xterra race last weekend!).  Also coming in with great performances were Chris CK Kinney and Cornelia P-H! Way to go Targetraining! Thanks to Mitch West for cheering us on and best of luck to him at Lake Placid next weekend!

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Comments

[CK]

Congrats....awesome job guys!

David, if you can just get through an XTERRA without any flats?