Jaquelin Hubbard
White Mountains Triathlon 05:53:41 Place in age group: 1 / 6 Place in gender: 7 / 41 Place […]
White Mountains Triathlon 05:53:41 Place in age group: 1 / 6 Place in gender: 7 / 41 Place […]
Johnny Kelley Half-Marathon, Hyannis, May 2015 – 01:29:07 PERSONAL RECORD!!! Place in gender: 8 / 246 Place overall: […]
Ironman Texas 10:18:45 Place in gender: 108 / 1937 Place overall: 130 / 2588
On August 29, 2014, I competed in the ITU World Sprint Triathlon Grand Final in Edmonton, Canada. It […]
When IRONMAN Legacy athlete Jennifer El-Sherif’s alarm goes off at 4:15 a.m., she has more than 100 reasons […]
I recently participated in my first race, the sprint distance at the Chicago Triathlon. Just a few months ago the notion of completing a triathlon seemed unthinkable. I have my girlfriend Kimberly to thank for getting me into multi-sport. We are both graduate students with a lot on our plates so joining her to train for a triathlon seemed like a good way to spend time together. I hadn’t expected that I would enjoy the experience so much that I’d be the one rallying her to do the next one!
Race day, I was excited and nervous. A bit surreal that the day was finally here. Doug and I met up with Jeff and Marc to head down to transition at 5:00, did a final check on the bike, pumped up the tires then drop off the special needs bike and run bags. After waiting at the condo with our teammates, we headed down to the water around 6:15 to begin a long day.
The announcer boomed out "Enda Moran, you are an Ironman!" as I bounced down the finishing straight on my own. Boy, that felt good! After 12 h 22 min of scooting around this beautiful Whistler course in brilliant weather competing in my first Ironman,
International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Championships is by far the biggest race I have competed at. It was a full week of racing and excitement. I have never seen a whole city get shut down for a race. Everywhere you looked, whether it was on the street or in the hotel there were triathletes in their country’s uniforms and banners advertising the race
In a previous life, I had lived in Orlando (don’t ask me why I decided to move to freaking cold Massachusetts), and although I usually tried to avoid Disney World like the plague, the marathon was something I wanted to do some day.