2010 Beach2Battleship Tri Result

Time for the final race results update for the weekend. Did I mention I would love some race reports yet? We had four Rocky Mount women racing at the Beach2Battleship Triathlon this weekend. One was racing the Half Iron Distance solo, and three others were relaying the full Iron Distance.

Patti Miller has training long and hard to prepare for the Half Iron Distance. To say she is in the best shape of her life right now would be an understatement. She has been swimming at the Y, flying on the bike, and running a pace on the roads that is a blur. The only way Patti would not rock the Tri would be if something truly went wrong. . . and it did.

Patti heading out for the run!

Patti, came out of the 1.2 mile swim 4th out of 51 women in her age group. On the 56 mile bike she average just under 20 mph and posted a 2:52 ride, the 5th fastest in her age group. Coming into the final transition Patti was looking strong but told Jeff she has having some back pain. Assuming it was just cramping from being in the same bike position for three hours she sucked it up, and went out on the run. Within the first five minutes of the run, she knew it was not normal cramping.

At this point Patti began to race-walk hunched over in pain. Her kidneys were torturing her with every step. Jeff joined her around mile five and did everything he could to get her to pull of the course. . . no luck. Patti continued her hunched-over-race-walk for virtually all of the 13.1 mile run. Despite the pain and the bad form she still managed a 2:53 half time. No doubt this was far from her goal, but impressive that she pushed through the pain and never gave up.

What started out looking like a top 3 age group performance eventually landed Patti in 28th place with a time of 6:34:24. Patti has a score to settle with the Beach2Battleship, and she will be back next year to show this race who is boss. Great job gutting through Patti!

Team Steelwomen

RMEC members, Kinnie Pruden and Tracy Proctor teamed up with Yvonne to form an Iron Distance relay on Saturday as well. Yvonne kicked things off for the "Steelwomen" team with a 1:19:34 in the swim.

Kinnie was next on the course where she posted an amazing 5:29:05 on the 112 mile bike ride. This time was only beaten by two elite women in the race! Tracy Proctor was next to take the virtual baton in the final leg of the race. . . a marthon. She headed out in daylight and finished the 26.2 miles with the setting sun. Her overall time was 4:16:01.

So, if you add it all up this steel tough group of ladies won the relay in the women's division! Their overall time of 11 hours and 10 minutes was nearly 20 minutes ahead of the 2nd place team. Great job ladies!