Here is a review of some great performances over the last month from some of our Powertri Elite Athletes.
Sarah Jarvis, an amazing female athlete from Flagstaff, Arizona recently competed in 2 longer races back to back. She competed in the Big Brothers and Sisters Half Marathon taking 3rd overall for the women, and then the very next day raced and won the Mountainman Half Ironman with a very strong sub 5 hour performance. Amazing! Sarah went on to earn entries into both races next year for having the lowest combined times for the two races. Congrats Sarah, that’s some hard work! Sarah is racing at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Las Vegas here in just a few weeks and we look forward to another excellent showing.
Adam Weaver, a Powertri athlete recently competed in the USA Triathlon National Age Group Championships in Vermont. As a busy husband and father who is training one of his very talented boys right now, Adam came away with a PR at the Olympic distance of 2:12.25. Congrats Adam!
At Utah’s own Utah Half, 3 of our athletes came out and dominated, and despite a slightly short course, they still posted some impressive times. Spencer Woolston who has been training tirelessly for Ironman 70.3 Worlds as well as the World Ironman Championships in Kona this year came out and showed what all that training can do. After a 7 minute defecit in the swim behind the leader, Spencer came away with the fastest bike split of the day with a fierce 27mph average! He was still 3 minutes off the leader going into the run and slowly lowered that distance to closer to 90 seconds by half way through the 13 mile run. At mile 10 Spencer picked up the run putting down sub 6min pace, passed the leader, and won the race by 5 minutes. Congratulations Spencer!
Heath Thurston was that leader for most of the race. He swam a impressive 23 minute, 1.2 mile split, sans wetsuit, easily coming out at least 2 minutes ahead of the next man. He biked an impressive 26pmh average and came into T2 leading. Heath ran strong throughout the very hot half marathon before finally being caught by teammate Spencer and finished 2nd overall. Great race Heath!
Colleen Rue was not to be outdone by the boys. With a competitive swim split, Colleen came out of the water 7th overall. Then combined with the fastest bike split of the day for the women and smokin’ fast transitions (so important I tell ya), she came into the run in 2nd place, seconds behind the leader. The leading woman, Jeanette Schellenberg, as well as the women one place behind Colleen, Kara Bankhead are very fast runners. Apparently so is Colleen! She ran a 1:37 and held on comandingly for 2nd woman overall. We’re very proud of you Colleen! The conditions were hot and muggy (for Utah at least), but you came through.
