Wildflower Triathlon, St Croix, St Anthony', and ironhead pics from "The Farm"

First, kudo's on some triodyssey athletes who've competed over the past couple of weeks in St Anthony's Oly in FL and Wildflower HIM in CA.
Congrats to Kathy Graves, 5th Athena 40-49 week before last with a 2:27. Turns out the swim was cancelled after the pro start due to 4 ft waves and 25 mph winds. Kathy managed to get onto the podium despite the tough conditions improving on her 8th place in her division in 2007.

Hope Zak is new to the sport, completing her first Half Ironman last summer at Hulaman here in Portland. St Croix's humidity and moster hill is quite a leap for a second race and for a new long course athlete. Hope managed a 6:12 however, good for 10th in the F35 AG, in this tough 70.3 race. Great job Hope!

Strong work to all those 4 TOC athletes who raced Wildflower HIM this past weekend!

Womens Podium Performances:
Bonnie Jensen W30 4th , 5:07(9th OA amateur female)
Stacey Stern W35 2nd, 5:17(5:34 2007 Wildflower)

Couple of my men raced also:
Jason Kurian M30, 4:51(4:58 2007 Wildflower)
Thomas Wood, 5:25 (5:53 2007 Wildflower)

I believe all PR'd on this course so overall great efforts!

I have never competed on this course but I would love to someday. Its challenging and those who have also done Auburn HIM have told me Wildflower run course is more difficult. That's tough...as I've done Aurburn.

Congrats to all of you who have PR'd 2 years after your last race on this course. Realize as we get older, especially in our mid 30's and beyond, it becomes more and more difficult to set personal bests. Kudo's to all of you.

Here are a few pics from "The Farm" Hawthorne farm athletic club sprint tri this weekend. Our ironheads team has now placed first overall male 4 years running. This year, Bill Thompson First Overall, and Jennifer Woodruff 3rd overall female.