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IM Switzerland.  Well done to Robert Clinkenbeard who raced at IM Switzerland on Sunday and had a fantastic race. Robert had finished IMAZ in Nov with an 11:41 consisting of a 1:43 swim, 5:39 bike and a 4:05 run. On Sunday he smashed that performance with a 1:37 swim, 5:38 bike and a 3:46 run for a total time of 11:09. Congratulation Robert!

Solana Beach Triathlon, Solana Beach, CA.  Congratulations to Ichha Sethi and Gwelle Boissiere who completed their first ocean swims with surf entries.

TinMan Olympic Tri, Honolulu, HI.  Paula Schmidt had a great Olympic race in Hawaii  with a 2:48.

Iron Abe Olympic Tri, Illinois.  Congratulations to Dan Cox for a great race at the Iron Abe event held this past weekend in Illinois.

Alaska X-terra and Donner Lake Olympic.  Paula Schmidt had a great race this weekend placing 3rd in her age group at X-terra in Alaska.  Thomas Taylor raced extremely well at the Donner Lake Tri in California placing 3rd overall with the fastest overall run split.  This is a classic race held between 6,000 and 9,000 feet in altitude and one that is not to be missed!  Great job to both Thomas and Paula! 

Vineman 70.3 and Mountain Man Sprint.  Great racing this weekend! Vineman is a classic race and has one of the most competitive fields in 70.3 racing.  This was the first year that the Mountain Man Sprint has been held as its own race in July. See some of the highlights below:

Vineman 70.3

Adam Bruderly – 4:47, 18th in AG

Dwight Lundell – 5:45, 3^rd in AG

Sharon Johnston – 5:32, 5^th in AG

Jenifer Garner – 5:52, 36^th in AG

Andrew Schear – 6:01, 118^th in AG

John Shufeldt – 7:23, 112^th in AG

Jacque Crosson – 7:39, 44^th in AG

Mountain Man Sprint

Toby Baum – 1:09, 2^nd in AG

Lisa Miller – 1:17, 2^nd in AG

Valerie Lane – 1:21, 3^rd in AG

CJ Ketterer – 1:20, 3^rd in AG

Gwelle Boissier – 1:33, 4^th in AG

Steve Letcher – 1:16, 4^th in AG

Cortney Ellish – 1:23, 6^th in AG

Darren West – 1:17, 7^th in AG

Chris McCarthy – 1:15, 10^th in AG

Russell VanBeber – 1:26, 12^th in AG

Ichha Sethi – 1:36, 13^th in AG

Great racing this weekend!   Here are the highlights.  Congratulations everyone!

Lifetime Fitness Olympic race - Minnesota

Kevin Taddonio raced in the amateur elite wave and took 5^th overall at just over 2 hours. He actually ended up running neck and neck with Craig Alexander for over 2 miles! Nice race Kevin!

Missoula Marathon

Congratulations to Tony Feiter who PR’d the marathon by over 27 min with a stellar 3:13:30 and qualified for Boston! Bella Panchmatia also ran in the ½ marathon in Montana.

Graniteman Sprint – Minnesota

Brady Dohrmann had a solid race taking 19/67 in his age group and 53/367 overall.

Chino Valley Sprint - AZ

Gwelle Boissiere – 1^st overall female - MINI

Ichha Sethi – 5^th overall female – MAXI

Chris Duvall – 1^st overall male - MINI

Carlsbad Sprint – CA

Jona Davis – 6^th in AG

Dorothy Waterhouse – 4^th in AG

Glen Reiley – 22^nd in AG -  sub 1:30!

Darren West – 10^th in AG -  sub 1:30!

Justin Van Dyck – 25^th in AG

Sal DiGiuseppi – 67^th in AG

Jim Siudut – 16^th in AG

JCC Firecracker Tri.  Great 4^th of July race results this weekend!

Triathlon MAXI

Jona Davis                           F40-44                   2^nd Overall

Ichha Sethi                          F30-34                   4^th AG

Nir Joels                               M30-34                 4^th Overall

Russell VanBeber             M30-34                 4^th AG

Mike Iaquinta                    M30-34                 5^th AG

Chris McCarthy                 M35-39                 3^rd AG
Tony Feiter                         M35-39                 4^th AG
Chris Duval                          M40-44                 1^st AG

Pat Devine                          M40-44                 2^nd AG

Jonathan Hott                   M40-44                 5^th AG

Triathlon MINI

Gwelle Boissiere              F40-44                   2^nd Overall

Brian Wright                       M35-39                    2^nd  AG

Congratulations to all our racers!

Upcoming open water swims.  We have four open water swims on the calendar.  Three of these will be held at Butcher Jones Cove at Saguaro Lake in lieu of masters swim practice and one will be held in San Diego.  Here are the dates:

Fri   Jun 25th   Saguaro Lake

Sat  Jul 10th   San Diego

Fri   Jul 23rd   Saguaro Lake

Fri   Aug 20th  Saguaro Lake

All swims at Saguaro Lake will begin at noon. 

If you would like information on the swim clinic in San Diego, please email anne@camelbackcoaching.com

Congratulations to Chris Duval who qualified for the Sprint Distance World Championships to be held in Budapest, Hungary later this summer.  He raced this weekend at the Quad Cities Sprint Triathlon in Iowa.  Way to go, Chris!

Also, Paula Schmidt ran the tough Mayor's Marathon in Alaska and placed 12th in her age group.

Finally, Richard West placed second in the 65-69 age group at his sprint race in South Carolina this weekend.

Well, despite some challenging conditions this past weekend some great results were posted at races around the globe. For those of you who raced at Show Low the conditions were especially tough. Heat + Altitude makes that run pretty rough! Congratulations to everyone!

Edinboro Sprint Tri – Edinboro, PA

Richard West finished in 1:28 and was the oldest athlete racing by 3 years at 67 years old.

Hawaii 70.3

Mike Iaquinta - 6:47 First ½ IM

Chris McCarthy – 6:34 First 1/2IM

Kansas 70.3

Jim Siudut – 6:08 – 35 min PR for the ½ IM distance.

San Diego ½ Marathon

Mike Sankovet – 2:22 – 1^st ½ marathon

Daniel Efune – 1:56

Nisene Marathon, Aptos, CA – one of the hilliest, toughest, mostly off road marathons around. Only 75 racers started.

Frank Smith – 53^rd overall and 5^th in his AG. 5:10 finishing time.

Show Low Xterra

Sage Grossi – 2^nd in F30-34 AG

Joan McGue – 2^nd in F50-54 AG

Justin Van Dyck – 17^th in M40-44 AG

Christine Kessler – Rode the MTB bike portion of a relay team.

Show Low Olympic

Thomas Taylor – 2^nd Overall male

Justin Roylance – 1^st in M30-34 AG. 11^th overall male

Chris Latvaaho – 1^st in M40-44 AG, 6^th overall male

Darren West – 8^th in M40-44 AG

Eero Allison – 10^th in M45-49 AG

John Shufeldt – 9^th in 50-54 AG first Olympic Distance Tri

CJ Ketterer – 5^th in M55-59 AG

Jona Davis – 2^nd in F40-44 AG

Jenifer Garner – 4^th in F40-44 AG

Renee Coffman – 3^rd in F30-34 AG

Heather Dean – 7^th in F35-39 AG

Show Low ½ IM

Bill Jones – 1^st in M40-44 AG

Robin Bobo – 5^th in F30-34 AG

Tempe International Triathlon and Orlando 70.3.  Congratulations to everyone who raced this weekend!  We had some great results at Tempe International, Orlando 70.3 and the Seville Sprint (results not up yet for this one). 

We had 42 athletes race at Tempe International and came in 3^rd place in the “large” division of the club championships. 

We would like to specially recognize Thomas Taylor and Justin Roylance who took 1^st and 3^rd overall in the sprint distance race at Tempe International.  They had the 3^rd and 4^th overall fastest swim splits and Thomas had the fastest overall run split at 17:41 while Justin had the 3^rd fastest overall run split at 18:30. 

We would also like to highlight Kevin Taddonio and Chris Latvaaho who took 4^th and 15^th overall in the Olympic distance race.  Kevin had the fastest overall run split with a time of 34:31 and Chris had the fifth overall fastest run split at 36:18.  Kevin and Chris will be racing at the Ironman World Championships in Kona in October. 

While we were all having fun in Tempe, Taos Poole was racing Orlando 70.3 and took a nice 9^th place in his age group.  Taos will be racing at the 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater later this fall. 

Nice racing, guys!

Tempe International

Sprint

Overall

Thomas Taylor                   1^st           58:06                     Fastest overall run split 17:41 and 3rd fastest overall swim 6:24

Justin Roylance                 3^rd           58:51                     3^rd fastest overall run split 18:30 and 4th fastest overall swim 6:29

M30-34

Juan Cucaro                        8^th           1:12:20

Russell Vanbeber             20^th         1:18:53

M35-39

Toby Baum                         8^th           1:07:09

Andy Werner                     19^th         1:15:04

M40-44

Sal DiGiuseppi                   22nd      1:21:12

M45-49

Eero Allison                        18^th         1:16:12

M60-64

Jay Mellen                          6^th           1:24:08

M65-69

Jim Walton                          3^rd           1:32:10

Richard West                     5^th           2:07:19

F35-39

Cortney Ellish                     7^th           1:17:45

Heather Dean                    10^th         1:25:22

Ichha Sethi                          27^th         1:38:30

F40-44

Gwelle Boissiere              7^th           1:25:22

F55-59

Joan McGue                       2^nd          1:32:22

Olympic

M20-24

Daniel Efune                      15^th         2:56:18

M25-29

Kevin Taddonio                 1^st           2:02:22                  4^th Overall and fastest overall run split 34:31

M30-34

Brent Snider                       6^th           2:15:08

Adam Bruderly                  10^th         2:15:52

M35-39

Yati Yadav                            16^th         2:24:03

Tony Feiter                         28^th         2:31:47                                 

Chris McCarthy                 35^th         2:37:33                 

Mike Iaquinta                    51^st         2:50:47                 

M40-44

Chris Latvaaho                   6^th           2:09:38                  15^th Overall and 5th fastest overall run split 36:18

Bill Jones                              13^th         2:17:49

Robert Clinkenbeard      26^th         2:29:05

Darren West                      30^th         2:30:45

Pat Devine                          34^th         2:34:56                 

Randy Ohlinger                 47^th         2:42:36

Chris Duval                          52^nd        2:46:15

M50-54

CJ Ketterer                         7^th           2:44:04

Paul Alston                         14^th         2:58:19

Dan Cox                               21^st         3:25:07

F35-39

Lisa Miller                            2^nd          2:31:48

F40-44

Jona Davis                           5^th           2:32:30

F45-49

Christine Kessler             15^th        3:03:22

F50-54

Sharon Johnston              1^st           2:41:01

Jacque Crosson                 8^th           3:42:52

Clydesdale

Jim Siudut                           7^th           2:46:49

Tony Freeman                   11^th         2:58:16

Ironman Orlando 70.3

Taos Poole                          9^th           4:46        M30-34

Las Palomas Triathlon.  Congratulations to everyone who raced this past weekend. I’d like to recognize a few performances of the past two weeks. 

Justin Roylance – Olympic – 4^th overall and 1^st in his AG – way to go Justin!

Glen Reiley – Olympic - 12^th in his AG

Gwelle Boissiere – Sprint – 19^th overall female and 2^nd in her AG

Ichha Sethi – Sprint – 20^th in her AG  

Congrats to Frank Smith of Cincinnati who finished his first Boston Marathon last Monday – way to go Frank! I’d also like to recognize Todd Gibby who raced at the highly competitive St. Anthony’s triathlon this past weekend and set a PR in tough conditions.  

More weekend race results. 

Chris Duvall - Rage in Sage Tri, Las Vegas - Sprint

Jean West - YMCA Duathlon - 1st AG

Tony Feiter - F1 Sprint - 7th overall and 1st AG

Mike Sankovit - Sabino Canyon Run

Great weekend of racing!  Congratulations to everyone who raced this weekend. There was Pat’s run, the F1 Sprint, New Orleans 70.3 and Rage in the Sage. I’d like to recognize a few performances.

 ·         First, congrats to Mike Iaquinta and Chris McCarthy who finished their first Olympic distance race last weekend at the Super Seal in San Diego. Nice job guys!

·         At New Orleans 70.3 Lisa Miller went 5:25 and took 12^th in her age group while Taos Poole went 4:43 and took 7^th in his AG which was high enough to qualify for the 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater.

·         Jona Davis had an unbelievable F-1 sprint and took first place overall female.

·         Christine Kessler raced at Rage in the Sage and took 2^nd in her AG in the sprint distance race.

·         Lastly, I’d like to wish good luck to Frank Smith who is racing the Boston Marathon tomorrow. Have a great race Frank!

Next big races are Rocky Point, Wildflower and IM St. George!

Tri for the Cure.  Congratulations to our finishers in Tri for the Cure this weekend.  We had some great results!

Triathlon

Ichha Sethi   F35-39   61st AG (largest AG at 108)

Jona Davis   F40-44   1st AG   4th overall

Gwelle Boissiere   F40-44   8th AG

Duathlon

Stephanie Deitrick   F35-39   7th AG

Oceanside 70.3.  Congratulations to our Oceanside 70.3 finishers:  Justin Roylance, Kirk McCarville, Glen Reiley, and Andy Werner!  Also, congratulations to Justin on a new PR of 4:44.  That's a 20-minute improvement from last year and a full one hour and eleven minutes faster than 2008!

Finally, we'd like to recongize Darren West.  He placed 10th in his age group at the Las Vegas Showdown and Sundown race.

Lake Havasu Triathlon and Bartlett Lake Triathlon.  What a nice weekend for racing! The weather was much nicer than four weeks ago J. We enjoyed some more great early season racing this weekend!  Congratulations to everyone on some fine performances.

Lake Havasu Triathlon

Olympic

Lisa Miller                            F35-39                   2^nd AG

Sharon Johnston              F50-54                   1^st AG

Jacque Crosson                 F50-54                   4^th AG

Kevin Taddonio                 M25-29                 1^st AG    6^th Overall

Brent Snider                       M30-34                 3^rd AG

Bill Wilson                            M40-44                 11^th AG

Robert Clinkenbeard      M40-44                 13^th AG

Steve Letcher                    M40-44                 14^th AG

Randy Ohlinger                 M40-44                 15^th AG

Kirk McCarville                  M55-59                 2^nd AG

Sprint

Jennifer Garner                F40-44                   1^st AG    5^th Overall

Buzz Gosnell                      M40-44                 11^th AG

Bartlett Lake Triathlon

Olympic

Kim Rosenlof                     F40-44                   2^nd AG

Chris Latvaaho                   M40-44                 3^rd AG   4^th Overall

Dean Rosenlof                  M35-39                 3^rd AG  

Sprint

Juan Cucaro                        M25-29                 1^st AG    10^th Overall

Chris Duval                          M40-44                 1^st AG    8^th Overall

CJ Ketterer                         M55-59                 4^th AG

Duathlon

Christine Kessler              F45-49                   1^st AG    2^nd Overall

We also had Tony Feiter and Jim Siudut run in the LA Marathon this weekend!

We wanted to recognize several of our athletes who put in great performances over the weekend at the Southwest Valley Regional YMCA Triathlon and Duathlon.  We are also catching up with the Firebird Triathlon that took place the weekend before that.  What all of our athletes have done collectively in 2010 so far (and it is only mid March) is really impressive!  Keep up the great work.

Southwest Valley YMCA Tri/Du

Olympic Distance

Andrew Shear   30-34     1^st AG (8^th Overall)

Sprint Distance

Juan Cucaro                        3^rd Overall

Russell VanBeber             30-34     2^nd AG - Sprint

Chris McCarthy                 35-39     1^st AG

Mike Iaquinta                    3^rd Overall Clydesdale

Gwelle Boissiere              3^rd Overall

Duathlon

Jean West                           40-44     1^st AG   

Firebird Tri

Sprint

Chris Duval                          40-44     2^nd AG

Super Sprint

Gwelle Boissiere              3^rd Overall

Congratulations to everyone who raced this weekend!  I’d especially like to recognize Kevin Taddonio who took first overall amateur male and Chris Latvaaho who took 8^th overall amateur male at the Desert Duathlon. Kevin and Chris will both be racing at Ironman Hawaii this October. Great racing on a tough, wet weekend!

Desert Duathlon

Kevin Taddonio – 1^st AG 25-29, 1^st overall amateur

Adam Bruderly – 5^th AG 30-34

Nir Joels – 4^th AG 35-39

Toby Baum – 12^th AG 35-39

Chris Latvaaho – 3^rd AG 40-44, 8^th overall amateur

Pat Devine – 12^th AG 40-44

Justin Van Dyck – 24^th AG 40-44

Buzz Gosnell – 29^th AG 40-44 – First ever multi sport event!

Tony Freeman – 20^th AG 50-54

Jeffrey Flocker – 3^rd AG 55-59

Kirk McCarville – 4^th AG 55-59

Paul Alston – 8^th AG 55-59

Jim Walton – 5^th AG 65-69

Stephanie Deitrick – 15^th AG 35-39

Jenifer Garner – 2^nd AG 40-44

Joan McGue – 1^st AG 55-59

JCC Sprint

Jonathan Hott – 12^th overall male in maxi tri, 3^rd AG

CJ Ketterer – 16^th overall male in maxi tri, 2^nd AG

Chris Duval – 2^nd overall male in super sprint, 1^st AG

Sal DiGiuseppi – 10^th overall male in super sprint, 2^nd AG

Gwelle Boissiere – 3^rd overall female in super sprint, 1^st AG

Bethanie Thorngren – 1^st triathlon ever

New Orleans Marathon

Darren West – 3:42 – 2^nd marathon

Jean West – ½ marathon – 2:07

RAGNAR Relay

Tony Feiter

Brent Snider

Randy Ohlinger

Ichha Sethi

Maria Warner

Andrew Schear

Congratulations to everyone who raced yesterday at the Lost Dutchman races! Sounds like the course was pretty challenging this year! I’d also like to recognize Kevin Taddonio who raced the Valley of the Sun Cycling Stage Race this weekend. Kevin raced in the CAT 4 group and placed 4^th in the individual time trial with an avg speed over a 14 mile course of 27mph. He then raced well in the road race and criterium and ended up taking 12^th overall just 1:19 out of first place. Kevin’s main focus this year is on IM Hawaii. He qualified at IMAZ this past November with a time of 9:04. I hope everyone is getting excited about the fast approaching multisport race season. Desert Duathlon, JCC Sprint, Havasu/Bartlett Tris, Oceanside 70.3, etc. will all be here very soon!

P.F. Changs Rock and Roll Marathon and Half Marathon Results – Congratulations on some great performances this weekend! 

Marathon

Jeff Bassett – 2:55 – PR

Eero Allison – 3:39 - PR

Toby Baum – 3:42 – PR

Cortney Ellish – 4:31 – 1^st marathon

½ Marathon

Chris Latvaaho – 1:19 - PR

Robert Clinkenbeard – 1:35 - PR

Jenni Marshal – 1:39 – PR

Jim Siudut – 1:46 - 8 seconds shy of a PR!

Heather Stein – 1:51

Bella Panchmatia – 1:53  

Heather Dean – 1:55 - PR

Karla Delord – 1:59

Reed Kiefer – 1:59 PR

Pamela Heaps – 1:56 PR

Nathan Heaps – 1:57

Caroline Cioe – 1:57 – 1^st half

Maria Warner – 2:14

Jean West – 2:19

Jana Purvis – 2:34 – 1^st half

We would especially like to recognize Jennifer Gibson who ran a 1:54. Jennifer’s husband, Joe was killed last month while on a training run with Jennifer. She ran with both her number and Joe’s pinned on. The time was a PR for Joe.

Wow, what a race on Sunday at Ironman Arizona! The weather was very nice and there were quite a few stellar performances. An IM is never easy and everyone from the fastest finisher to the last finisher has to overcome a tremendous amount of suffering and self doubt to make it to that finish line.

We had 20 finishers.   Eleven of those athletes were first time Ironman racers. There were seven athletes who achieved a PR for the IM distance and we had one athlete qualify for Kona.

Job well done to all of you!

Chris Latvaaho – 9:27 – Kona Qualifier - PR

Jeff Bassett – 10:12

Nathan Heaps – 11:23 -  1^st IM

Kelly O’Halloran – 11:28 – PR

Joe Rueda – 11:29 – 1^st IM

Toby Baum – 11:32 – 1^st IM

Robert Clinkenbeard – 11:41 – 1^st IM

Dean Rosenlof – 12:03 – 1^st IM

Jenifer Garner – 12:24 – PR

Scott Wilson – 12:51 – PR

Pat Devine – 12:56 – 1^st IM

Tony Feiter – 12:58 – 1^st IM

Megan Eikenberry – 12:58 – 1^st IM

Gene Hindman 13:10 – PR

Jay Mellen – 14:08 – PR

Randy Ohlinger – 14:33

Greg Garner – 14:46 – PR

Gwelle Boissiere – 16:18 – 1^st IM

Stephanie Deitrick – 16:45 – 1^st IM

Joan McGue – 16:52 – 1^st IM

What a great weekend of racing!! Jenifer Garner was in OZ at the Long Course World Champs, Rob Zachary was racing at the Austin 70.3 and we had many people racing at Soma. We were lucky with some cool morning temps. Congratulations to everyone who raced. I’d especially like to recognize Chris Latvaaho for one of his finest races to date. Chris ran a 9:42 in Kona last year and had a great day yesterday. Her turned in a  time of 4:18 that included a pro caliber 1:20 run. Chris finished as the 2^nd overall age grouper and 4^th overall in the race. Congratulations Chris!

1.        Chris Latvaaho                  M35-39                 2nd overall          4:18:44  (PR)            

2.       Justin Roylance                 M30-34                 10^th         4:43:08  (PR)      

3.       Brent Snider                       M30-34                 13^th         4:47:35                 

4.       Nathan Heaps                   M35-39                                 5:08:50  (PR)

5.       Robert Clinkenbeard      M40-44                                 5:09:32    

6.       Mark Kozlowski                M35-39                                 5:11:03

7.       Bill Wilson                            M40-44                                 5:11:43  (PR)

8.       Toby Baum                         M35-39                                 5:19:39  (PR)

9.       Pat Devine                          M40-44                                 5:25:40 (PR)

10.   Kirk McCarville                  M55-59                 2nd        5:25:56                 

11.   Joe Rueda                           M40-44                                 5:29:17

12.   Andrew Schear                 M30-34                                 5:29:56  (PR)

13.   Justin VanDyck                  M40-44                                 5:36:44                 

14.   Randy Ohlinger                 M40-44                                 5::41:58

15.   Gene Hindman                 M45-49                                     5:46:29 (PR)

16.   Andy Werner                     M30-34                                 5:48:43

17.   Jay Mellen                          M65-69                 7^th           6:12:18  (PR)       

18.   Cindy Rodarte                   F35-39                                   6:20:49

19.   Adam Swenson                M30-34                                 6:29:08

20.   Jim Siudut                           M55-59                                 6:43:24

21.   Gwelle Boissiere              F40-44                                   6:53:42

22.   Stephanie Deitrick           F35-39                                   7:33:08

Congratulations to Jeff Bassett and Dwight Lundell for their fantastic performances at the Ironman World Championships in Kona this weekend!

Jeff was the top Arizona finisher in 10:15 with an impressive sub 3:30 marathon.

Dwight finished 10th in his age group with a 13:46.  He paced this great from start to finish.