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DEPARTMENTS 18 July 2009 Join the DVD of the Month Club of the Month Club www.coachtroy.com www.coachtroy.com www.coachtroy.com www.coachtroy.com www.coachtroy.com www.coachtroy.com Bozzone Completes Double: Adds Eagleman Title Atop Columbia At the Columbia Triathlon in May, 24-year-old Terenzo Bozzone of Auckland, New Zealand, won in dramatic fashion, catching 20-year-old Andrew Yoder of Columbia, Pa., over the last mile and a half. Bozzone posted a time 10 seconds ahead of secondplace finisher Yoder. Sweeping the second of the two most popular, longrunning and competitive Maryland triathlons in back-to-back months, at the Eagleman 70.3 Ironman Triathlon June 14 in Cambridge, Bozzone instead had to fight off Richie Cunningham of Brookline, Mass., over the last mile and a half. He won the 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1 run in 3:51:11. On the women’s side, Mirinda Carfrae, 28, a native of Australia, bested Natascha Badmann, 43, a sixtime former Ironman Kona world champion and twice Switzerland’s Sportswoman of the Year, won in 4:16:52. Carfrae beat Badmann by three and a half minutes. No one else was within eight minutes of either athlete. Desiree Flicker, formerly of Potomac, Md., took third. TRIATHLON TRIAT AT A HLO CAMPS FOR WOMEN The first and only triathlon weekend camps for women in the Mid-Atlantic! Fun, informative and surefire way to help prepare you for your triathlon. Now offering beginner and intermediate level camps in both Maryland and Virginia. For more info and to register: www.shedoestri.com TRISPOKES by RON CASSIE ron_cassie@yahoo.com www.coachtroy.com www.spinervals.com Call Toll Free 1-888-288-0503 Spin, Spinning, Spinner, and Spinervals are registered trademarks of Mad Dogg Athletics, Inc. Register Now for Our Summer and Fall Camps! “Phenomenal!” “Awesome weekend. I feel much more prepared for my first tri.” “Fun, comfortable environment. Very knowledgeable instructors.” 443.414.5846 Presented by: Krista Schultz & David Glover ORDER TODAY! “I do like Maryland, it’s hot and humid, which I love, and I stayed with a great host family for the second year here,” Bozzone told SPOKES. “But, yeah, these were two competitive races. I got off the bike with a four-minute lead and my legs struggled a bit. I thought four minutes was going to be enough. Then, I looked over my shoulder and saw Richie weaving his way up and, to be honest, I was quite surprised he caught up. That was the kick in the pants I needed.” Cunningham, rocking a 5:37 pace over the 13.1 mile run, easily the best split of the day, cut three and a three-quarters minutes off of Bozzone’s lead, finishing 16 seconds out of first place. Carfrae, on the other hand, had to reel in Badmann, an extremely strong cyclist regaining her form after a bike spill at Kona last year, two miles into the run. With the introduction of the Ironman 70.3 series in 2006, Carfrae captured the St. Croix and Baja titles early in the year, going on to win a bronze at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in the same year. In 2007, she came in second in four half-Ironman distance triathlons before winning the 2007 Ironman 70.3 World Championships in world record time. With four 70.3 wins in 2008, Carfrae has clearly claimed the 70.3 distance as her own. She said just competing against Badmann, who has won five Eagleman titles, four in a row from 2004 to 2007 and owns the course record, was all the motivation needed. “Having a good bike split was the key for me,” said Carfrae, who posted the eighth-best swim, third best bike, and top running split. “I think maybe Natascha passed me at about mile 40.” Remarkably, exactly a week ago, Carfrae won Connecticut’s new Rev 3 half-Ironman Triathlon, finishing a minute ahead of Badmann, who took third. “Two days ago, I thought doing this race was hopeless,” Carfrae said. “It’s been a pretty good seven days.”
Out-of-towners dominated the pro results, only Flicker, sixth-place women’s finisher, Laurel Wassner, formerly of Gaithersburg, and Lindsey Jerdonek, of Washington, D.C., had mid-Atlantic connections. However, numerous local amateurs won or placed among the top of their age groups. Shandra Richardson, 29, of Gainesville, Va., won the 25-29 age group – qualifying for a spot at the World Championships in Kona in July – and was the fourth place finisher overall. Her husband, Robert Richardson, took 12th in the 35-39 age group, with a personal-best 4:28:37. Both have qualified and raced at Kona in the past; the couple’s goal again this season. “Winning my age-group and qualifying was the No. 1 goal,” said Shandra Richardson, adding that last year her and husband went to Lake Placid to compete to earn spots for Hawaii. Two years ago, the Richardsons, who met training, opened Rip Tide Swim and Tri (riptideswimandtri. com) in Gainesville. Shandra, who also coaches swimming, manages the store fulltime while Robert works his daytime IT job for now, at least. “We’ve survived the recession, but I don’t think that’s happening soon, and I like my job, but maybe that will happen someday,” said Robert Richardson, who wakes up at 3 a.m. to start training before reporting for work at 6 a.m. The couple has one child, Madison, 2, and baby-sitting grandparents who allow them to train cycling together on the weekends. Next, it’s back to Lake Placid to get Robert qualified for Hawaii. “It’s really been a blessing for us to go to Kona together as a couple,” Shandra Richardson told SPOKES. Another local athlete, Lucas McCollum, of Frederick, Md., won the male side of the 25-29 group, posting a fast 4:12:05, three full minutes over his closest rival, Dave Smith, of Virginia Beach. McCollum missed his first goal – a 4:10 mark – but hit his second as top amateur in his age group. McCollum, a former college pitcher at Jacksonville State, was the sixth amateur overall. Unlike Bozzone, McCollum, was coming off a disappointing experience at Columbia. But he bounced back with the best average bike speed, averaging 25.3 miles per hour over the 56-mile ride, of any amateur. He also delivered the best run split in his age group. Sick with an upper respiratory illness at Columbia, McCollum had to drop out of the race. “This race was my top priority and I’ve been working on my speed,” he said. “And did taper off (my training). Everything went as planned, except the secondhalf of the bike, it was pretty windy – that’s probably where my two minutes went.” McCollum noted getting off the bike after the blazing split, was almost as much fun as winning the age group. “To come back to rack in transition and not see any other bikes there is a great feeling,” he said. McCollum said he’s got the Spirit of Morgantown tri and the Savageman event in Cumberland on his schedule later this summer. He’s also pointing, however, to Kona. “Both are good training races,” he said. “Savageman is one of the toughest triathlons around. Your legs feel like they do after a full Ironman after that bike course.” Omar Nour, 30, of Washington, D.C., was the second overall amateur, and second in his age group, finishing in both cases with an outstanding time of 4:08:47, behind Mark Rochen, 34, of Downington, Pa. Nour said a couple of years ago, before training for his first triathlon in 2007, the Nations Triathlon in D.C., of course, he weighed 220 pounds – at least 40 pounds heavier than the 6-foot- athlete goes now. “I was sitting with some friends smoking shisha (a popular Middle Eastern tobacco smoked in a hookah) and they said they were signing up for a triathlon,” said Nour, who crossed the finish line grinning and dancing. “I was like, ‘What is that?’ They told me, first you swim, then bike, then run. I said, ‘Okay, sign me up.’" A former high school swimmer at Georgetown Prep, Nour had been racing on a “second or third-hand” Cannondale until finally getting on a new Felt for Eagleman. “I got it fitted, and I told them to fit me in the most aggressive position possible and I’ll make my body adjust,” Nour said. It worked, he posted the secondfastest amateur bike split, average just 0.1 mile-perhour behind McCollom. Nour credits his brother Diaa, with providing valuable training and racing TRISPOKES continued on p.20 July 2009 19
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