Fabulous Weekend

Blanchard Park Swim-a-thon and Baldwin Park Triathlon

We had an excellent turn out yesterday for our first Swim-a-thon fundraiser for scholarships. We raised over $1000. Yeah!!!

Several of our teammates participated in the Baldwin Park Triathlon before the Swim-a-thon and did very well. Here are the results ...

Name                           Swim       Bike       Run        Total
Galloway Relay            0:09:47   0:40:39    0:19:07   1:10:46
Julio Godreau             0:11:18    0:40:16    0:24:14   1:17:10
Arnold Noorlander       0:13:53    0:39:51    0:25:21   1:21:24
Brice Gyurisko            0:17:38    0:42:03   0:21:09   1:22:29
Ericka Stephens          0:14:15    0:43:31   0:22:34   1:22:35
Andrea Rediske          0:15:09    0:45:58    0:24:46   1:28:03
Tracy  Bosch              0:16:50    0:45:32    0:34:46   1:37:08
Monica Hunt              0:20:48    0:55:26    0:28:42   1:46:46
James Diaz                0:23:22    0:51:24    0:31:39   1:51:18
Julee Waldrop                          bike trouble?

We are in the final stages of prepping for the Clermont Triathlon including the Lake Louisa Super Sprint this Thursday evening.  The links below, in the Team Races section, will take you to the websites for these races for more information and registration.  See you there!

St Anthony's Triathlon

Wow! What an amazing weekend! For those of us who were visiting that course for the first time ... WOW! St Pete is beautiful. The venue was huge. There was a large expo that ran all weekend with lots of equipment and stuff to look at and try out.



The Meek & Mighty Kids race was on Saturday and our very own, Drake Bosch performed well sporting his new Blanchard Park Y Tri team uniform. It was a 200 yard pool swim (remember the snake warm-up that Coach Jacklynn has us do ... that was the race, it was cool!) followed by a 5.4 mile bike and then a 1 mile run.




All of our athletes and support crew met up for a nice italian dinner Saturday night at Gigi's. We took up 3 huge tables in the back of the restaurant and sat close enough to be able to talk with just about everyone there. Afterwards, we went outside for a team picture because with the staggered start times, we knew it would be very difficult to get everyone together at the same time.

Then (oh so early) Sunday morning we headed down to the race to finish setting up our transitions and get ready to start. Because of the massive number of people competing in this race, they closed transition at 6:45. The pros were starting at 6:50. But athletes from the Blanchard team started at a little after 7:00, then around 8:00, more around 8:20 and the last of us by 9:10. So our finish times were quite staggered as well but our amazing friends and family did a great job of supporting us and cheering us on through the whole thing. What an amazing experience. I can't wait until next year.

2011 results 
(for complete results click here)

BIB	NAME		SWIM		BIKE		RUN		TIME
2665	Barry Leathers		21:34		1:10:35		53:54		2:32:42
404	Britney Alberson		18:41		1:18:03		50:13		2:33:38
1539	Jacklynn Stroz		16:33		1:15:21		56:48		2:35:19
1543	Renee Tercsak		17:59		1:22:00		54:17		2:41:37
2282	Joshua Wilson		22:05		1:19:39		53:01		2:41:44
2349	William Gonzalez		20:30		1:19:14		54:26		2:42:40
1712	Kim Tranter		19:25		1:19:41		56:47		2:45:03
3684	Rigo Davilla		22:37		1:22:00		59:06		2:52:00
1642	Amanda Leathers		22:43		1:22:42		59:54		2:54:41
609	Brice Gyurisko		24:34		1:29:01		55:11		2:57:36
599	Douglas Gerard		21:11		1:20:25		1:05:15		2:58:35
1739	Tracy Bosch		24:22		1:17:48		1:08:42		3:01:22
2642	Ron Irizarry		24:05		1:28:08				3:19:13
341	Megan Montgomery		22:47		1:43:33		1:15:06		3:31:55
402	Julia Warren		23:05		1:30:18		1:24:52		3:32:25
3686	James Diaz		37:55		1:54:15		1:14:17		4:10:35
315	Drake Bosch		4:19		19:37		7:40		36:03
	and just for the fun of it …
71	Sara McLarty		11:31		1:01:15		40:46		1:58:08