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Carpinteria's Sue Beatty was the duathlon champion at Tuesday's Reef & Run, the season-opener for the weekly ocean-swim-and-run event held at the Cabrillo Bath House throughout the summer.The weather wasn't very summer-like quite yet as the evening turned out to be grey and cool, but several dozen committed athletes braved the conditions, including 55-degree water temperatures, to compete in a variety of races.Beatty completed the duathlon with a winning combined time of 41 … [Read more...]
The 2010 Reef & Run Summer Series is suddenly upon us, with the season opener just around the corner this Tuesday evening, April 27. To celebrate, PresidioSports.com is giving away two free passes in a fun contest on its Facebook Page.To join in the fun and do Reef & Run for free, Click Here.The contest is simple. Create a wall post with your most clever slogan for Reef & Run and get as many friends as possible to give you a "thumbs up." The two slogans with the most … [Read more...]
Christopher and Brittany Braden, two former track and cross country standouts at Dos Pueblos, finished among the top 10 in their respective divisions at the USA Triathlon Collegiate Nationals in Lubbock, Texas last weekend.Christopher Braden, competing for Colorado University, placed 10th in the individual men’s race to help the Buffaloes win the men’s and coed team championships. He finished the 750-meter swim, 40k bike and 10k run in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 35 seconds. His time was the … [Read more...]
Santa Barbara's David Larson biked his way to the Olympic Course title at the Carpinteria Triathlon on Sunday, finishing the 40 kilometer circuit faster than anyone else en route to a winning overall time of two hours, 11 minutes and 40 seconds.Susan Corti, of Westlake Village, won the women's race and Rowena Spence repeated as women's champion on the sprint course. Orange County's Justin Rowe knocked out the sprint course in just over 54 minutes for the overall short-course … [Read more...]
The 12th edition of the Carpinteria Triathlon is set to take place this Sunday in the quaint seaside town.There will be two courses — a sprint course and a more grueling Olympic course. Both will feature competitors of all ages.The Olympic course will include a 1.5-kilometer swim, a 40-kilometer bike ride, and a 10-kilometer run, while the shorter sprint course will have a 500-meter swim, a 15-kilometer bike, and a 5-kilometer run.Roughly 1,000 competitors are expected to take part … [Read more...]
It was short and sweet for Mike Smith on Sunday, as the 45-year-old local won the Santa Barbara Triathlon Co-Ed Sprint Course competition with a time of 35 minutes, 21 seconds. Smith did it by holding off Carpinteria's Matt Organista, 20, and pulling away in the stretch run."It went really well for me. I rested a lot this week and wanted to kind of fire away," said Smith, who competed in the long course for about a decade and was a multiple-winner. It was his seventh year in the sprint … [Read more...]
San Francisco's John Dahlz championed the Santa Barbara Triathlon's long course in 2 hours, 53 minutes and two seconds on Saturday to lead a handful of competitors that eclipsed the three-hour marker.Dahlz, 25, excelled in the swim and bike sections and built a healthy lead going into the run. He needed it, as second-place finisher Patrick Baldwin, 33, took back over six minutes by scorching the 10-mile run in just under 57 minutes. Baldwin's total time was 2:54.39.Nine hundred people … [Read more...]
Nite Moves and this year's new Reef & Run series completed the 12th of 20 installments in the weekly swim/run event season that runs until September 8.The Nite Moves 5k run was its busiest since June 24, with 264 runners participating. The top echelon had a major teenage presence as 18-year-olds Chris Braden and Matthew Bailey finished 1 and 2 respectively. Braden's winning time was 16 minutes and 21 seconds.Last week's winner, Ricky Ho, 33, finished in third but another 18 … [Read more...]
Jon Clark has won the Semana Nautica 5-mile Biathlon so many times in the last quarter century he's lost count."I don't know — 14, 15, 16 or somewhere in there," said the 48-year-old former lifeguard after winning Saturday morning's race at East Beach by 58 seconds over Ed Smith, crossing the line in 48 minutes, 10 seconds.Clark wasn't up front after the 4-mile run, as Dos Pueblos High's Chris Braden was well ahead of the pack as he headed into the water. That's where Clark pulled … [Read more...]
If you think completing a triathlon sounds grueling, try doing it with the flu."I'm sick. I have a temperature of 102 right now," said women's sprint course winner Rowena Spence of Santa Barbara.She had a smile on her face, too.Dense fog parked itself along the shores of Carpinteria Sunday for the city's annual triathlon, and around 850 competitors went into the mist to tackle the course."The swim was tough because of the fog. I couldn't really see where I was going," said … [Read more...]
