Wildflower!
May 5, 2008 on 11:30 pm | In Uncategorized |
This year’s Wildflower triathlon was by far the best. This was my 4th year attending Wildflower, 3rd year racing, and 2nd year racing the Olympic distance. Meghan, Roxanne, and I drove up Friday night and ran into some of my old friends from the dorms. We ended up camping with them under this awesome huge oak tree. Tisha set us up with some VIP guest passes which allowed us to eat catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner down at the festival area. The food there was amazing. Saturday we hung out in the festival area watching Stilltime play on stage while having a few beers. We checked out the vendor booths and watched the long course and mountain bike course races for a bit. Sunday I raced the Olympic distance course which is a 1.5km open water swim in the lake, 40km bike on the road, and 10km run on road and dirt trails. The course is very challenging since the bike and run courses are both full of hills. I ended up shattering my time from last year by 13 min!
| 2008 | 2007 | |
| Overall time | 2:42:17 | 2:55:21 |
| Swim | 27:58 | 30:51 |
| Bike | 1:20:33 | 1:25:43 |
| Run | 46:14 | 53:36 |
| Overall Place | 308 out of 2399 | 489 out of 2729 |
| Division Place | 56 out of 247 | 20 out of 59 |
Meghan, Roxanne, and Shaba did the Olympic course as a relay team. Shaba did the swim leg then Roxanne did the bike leg and Meghan finished with the run leg. It was Meghan and Roxanne’s first experience participating in a triathlon and they did great. All in all we had an amazing time at the Wildflower and are already looking forward to next year.
Congrats Jesse - great results! Tell Meghan I say congrats too, it’s awesome that she competed!
Comment by Andrea — May 6, 2008 #
congradulations! josh and i (grandma) just viewed your race resulats - real proud of you both- see you in a few days, love, grandma and joshua.
Comment by Claire munderloh — May 12, 2008 #
Great job!
Comment by Margo — May 27, 2008 #