A pretty fast Lake Placid

Mitch West is the shy and retiring type.  So he won't get on the blog and say" I GOT 5th IN MY AGE GROUP AT LAKE PLACID. "  Well, congratulations Mitch on an incredible showing -- a 9:49 pace.  Are you going to Kona again?

Greg Stewart got 17th in his age group in just over 10 hours -- also a great showing.

Alan Masarek and Bruce Kofsky both completed Lake Placid.  Ok, maybe they didn't quite do 10 hours -- in fact they had to suffer for somewhat longer -- but they finished.  A gargantuan feat and we are proud of both of them.

Dom Gillen was in 6th place overall when his body/mind shut down.  Jeff thinks Dom may have been low on red blood cells.   Sounds like Dom's sympathetic nervous system just said "no mas."  Good news is that Dom has a back up Ironman that he will do in about 6 weeks time.   Dom -- taper well and crush it.

Ok -- I am certain I am missing some key folks who went to Lake Placid -- please email me at rick@ttwestport.com so I can update the blog appropriately. Or send it to dom@ttwestport.com or to eneas@ttwestport.com.

I just finished a 3.5 hour training session and what was most fun about it was seeing Little Max, our intern, race alongside Matt Baldwin, Stephan Badger and myself.  That was a blast to see -- our 17 year old young man who had never seriously ridden a bicycle when he joined us and now mixing it up with the big boys (and I think he got a top 10 finish -- way to go bud!).  The Badger did a massive leadout for the field sprint (thanks Stephan and also thanks Brian Wolf).  I am tired now but that is pretty much a perpetual state of being...

Again -- great showing in Lake Placid!  Amazing.  You are not getting me to swim for an hour -- and then bicycle for 112 miles -- and then do a marathon.  I'm sticking to bicycle racing. But we are very proud of you guys for doing it.

Comments

[Michael_D]

Congrats to all the Lake Placid Guys - Especially those celebrating their 1/2 century - Very Impressive ! Looking forward to joining the ranks next year!