Gale Moore 12th at Worlds in Austrailia

After placing fourth in the U.S. Championship race in Aquathlon, Gale Moore competed in the world championship Aquathlon race in Gold Coast Australia on September 9, 2009.  She placed 12th in a time of 45:10.   She was the second American in her age group.

The splits were 1.55-mile run 11:04; .93-mile swim  19:46; 1.55-mile run 14:21.  The second run included the the transition of putting on socks and shoes.

Gale represented the United States in a special red, white and blue suit with her name on the back.  She also received a shirt for a parade that was conducted as well as  few other freebies.

Frantic Frog ‘09

Duane, Bob and Jeff

Three triathletes finished off their triathlon season with good performances at the Frantic Frog Triathlon in Scottsboro, AL on September 12, 2009.  Bob Boehm and Duane Leach earned second and third place medals respectively.  Jeff Yeager’s speedy bike was fastest in his age group, but missed a medal by one place.  Jeff is still wounded with plantar fasciitus which has prevented him from run training.  Full results are HERE.  One of things not shown in the stats below is that the three had the fastest transition times in their respective groupings.  The distances for this triathlon were 400M swim/14.8-mi. bike/3.1-mile run.

Name	Div’n	Swim	Bike	Run	Finish
Robert Boehm	Clydes	7:00	38:56	23:27	1:12:04
	2/19	1/19	23.0mph	7:34/mi	18/480
Jeff Yeager	M40-44	8:44	38:08	25:00	1:14:23
	4/39	10/39	23.4mph	8:04/mi.	41/480
Duane Leach	M45-49	8:34	41:54	23:49	1:16:37
	3/32	4/32	21.3mph	7:41	62/480

Jeff with new QRoo bike

Future triathletes??

Pretty in pink HOW 100 ladies

Several ladies with ties to Maury County (TN) completed the 62-mile route of the Hope On Wheels (HOW) 100 on September 26, 2009.  This women-only bicycle tour raises money for breast cancer, so there was a lot of pink being worn.  These four friends have matching tops pink tops that they wore for the event.

From left to right are Laurie Lokey, Miki Peek, Stephanie Robinette and Tomi Smith.

The Hope On Wheels 100 started at Pinewood, TN, and rode on the Natchez Trace Parkway and surrounding areas.  This year the event was opened up to men as well, but they had to start a half hour later.  Over 400 riders total were expected.

The pictures came from Jill Webster’s Facebook.  She is the one in the official pink HOW 100 jersey in this picture.

Columbia Cycling Club activities

One Saturday in August the ‘A’ group ventured into Williamson County on a 53-mile ride.  Since Tim Yeager has been a UPS delivery worker in this area, it was not a mistake when he led the group to this creek crossing.

Randy starts across

Carefully crossing

Randy Leifhert falls in

On September 12, the Club is hosting a Jamboree and inviting the general public to a 9:00 MTB and road ride.  All levels of riders will be accommodated.  The road rides have been listed as a choice of a 25 and a 50-mile route.  Come to the Knob Creek pavilion at the Chickasaw Trace Park in Columbia (TN).  Pizza will be delivered at noon.  At 1:00 some maintenance will be done on the trails to get ready for the Jailbreak Triathlon.

On September 26, the Club will host the eighth annual Jailbreak Triathlon at the Chickasaw Trace Park.  This is a Canoe/MTB/Trail Run race.

On October 24, the Club will be hosting the Scarecrow Century.  This is an updated name to go along with the Scarecrow Festival that was created in conjunction with the event in Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee.

Then in January there will be four Cyclocross races on the first and third weekends.

For more on these events and membership in the club, go HERE.

Carter shows talent at McMinnville

Patrick Carter with Dad

Patrick Carter came through a great performance in his third (or so) triathlon on August 29.  Carter was a collegiate swimmer and he came through with the third fastest swim split overall. 

The McMinnville City Triathlon consisted of a 350 meter pool swim, a 15.25-mile bike and a 3-mile run.  Jeff Yeager’s bike was 21mph even though his seat came off and he had to stop twice to pick up the pieces.  Jeff’s run training has been hindered by plantar fasciitus. 

Name		Div	DivPL	SWIM	BIKE	RUN	FINISH
Patrick	Carter	M35-39	8/28	5:03	47:02	22:55	1:17:16
					19.5mph	7:39/mi.
Jeff	Yeager	M40-44	6/23	6:42	43:43	24:54	1:17:35
					21.0mph	8:18/mi.
James	Wiesman	M65-69	4/4	8:51	47:24	29:41	1:29:11
					19.4mph	9:54/mi.
Suzanne	Waltner	Athena	2/2	9:19	1:00:13	49:44	2:02:10
					15.2mph	16:35/mi.

Gale Moore qualifies for Worlds in Aquathlon

Gale Moore at Aquathlon

Gale Moore placed fourth in her age group in the Aquathlon National Championship race in Canton, NC, on August 2, 2009.  The event consisted of a 1500 meter open water swim followed by a 5k run.  Her accomplishment was good enough to qualify for the World Championship event in Australia on September 9, 2009.

Moore swam the 1.5k in 24:37 and ran the rainy 5k in 24:04 (7:45 pace).  Her transition time of 3:05 was twice as long as her competitors–must have had trouble stripping off the borrowed wetsuit.   Full results HERE.

Moore has made her travel plans to take the trip down under.  Fleet Feet Nashville (in Brentwood) is sponsoring Gale in her venture to the Worlds competition.

Nettleton 3rd at Fall Creek Falls Tri

Seven athletes from Columbia (TN) competed in the Tri Fall Creek Falls triathlon on August 16, 2009.  Tommy Nettleton had an excellent performance and placed third overall.  Nettleton has significantly revised his training this year with the help of a coach, Nick Lehecka, and it is appears to be working for him.  Last year Nettleton placed 21st overall at this event and his time was 2:25:41.  Jim Robinson also did this event last year (on a whim) and he knocked 27 minutes off of last year’s time.  See last year’s blog.  Full results for this year’s race HERE.

Four earned an award  in the form of a minature banjo:  Nettleton was 3rd overall; Mike Waugh placed 2nd; Robert Boehm placed 2nd; Missy Meador placed 3rd.  The distances were Swim 1.5k (.93mi)/Bike 40k (24.8-mi.)/Run 10k (6.2-mi.).  There was a lengthy run, over 1/4-mile, up a hill from the water to the bike transition and it is reflected in TRANS1.  There were 282 competitors.

NAME	DIV	DIVPL	SWIM	TRANS1	BIKE	MPH	RUN	PACE	FINAL
Tom	45-49	—	21:40	3:03	1:03:46	23.3	46:12	7:26	2:15:22
Nettleton	Overall	rank:	9		3		21		3
Bob	Clydes	2/13	23:47	3:45	1:10:58	21.0	51:39	8:18	2:31:12
Boehm	Overall	rank:	21		44		65		28
Mike	40-44	2/28	25:48	3:53	1:13:15	20.3	49:38	7:59	2:33:51
Waugh	Overall	rank:	48		75		43		39
Duane	45-49	5/21	27:02	4:06	1:14:07	20.1	55:09	8:52	2:41:31
Leach	Overall	rank:	72		89		112		82
Alida	30-34	5/12	35:50	5:00	1:18:27	19.0	55:23	8:54	2:57:00
Jacob	Overall	rank:	241		139		113		162
Jim	35-39	27/32	35:22	6:55	1:25:54	17.3	55:35	8:56	3:05:45
Robinson	Overall	rank:	237		224		116		194
Missy	Athena	3/6	40:54	5:02	1:18:44	18.9	1:07:02	10:47	3:14:16
Meador	Overall	rank:	269		143		216		222

Site seeing

Music City Tri in downtown Nashville

Music City Tri's pier start

On July 26, 2009, the Music City Triathlon was conducted in downtown Nashville.  It started on a long pier near the LP football stadium.  Yes, the racers swam in the Cumberland River!  They swam upstream, then across, then downstream and across.  The 20k bike route went out on the Ellington Parkway which was closed to traffic.  The 5k run course went over the steep pedestrian bridge and then ran up and down 1st, 2nd and 3rd Avenues.

There was a sprint race that was 400 yd swim, 20k bike and 5k run.  There was also and intermediate distance of 1.5k swim, 40k bike and 10k run.  The intermediate racers did two laps of the bike and run courses.

Tommy Nettleton said he loved the downtown experience and was majorly impressed with Team Magic’s accomplishments in pulling it all off.  He only wishes that the prizes for the shorter race were as good as the longer race.  Bob Boehm won a $35 gift certificate and a nice outdoor chair for his second place finish among 40+ clydesdales in the longer race.  Tommy Nettleton won a $25 gift certificate for first overall masters (4th overall).  See comments below for more on this.

This was Kevin Mobley’s second triathlon.  His first was the prior weekend (at Decatur’s Wet Dog Triathlon).            Full Results

INTRMED	RACE	DIVPL	SEXPL	SWIM	BIKE	RUN	TIME
Robert C	Boehm	2/11	66/299	29:09	1:13:34	50:07	2:32:48
Mike	Waugh	16/51	98/299	29:08	1:19:53	51:17	2:40:16
SPRINT	RACE
Tommy	Nettleton	1/25	4/182	6:40	35:28	20:38	1:02:44
Kevin	Mobley	20/25	140/182	12:55	46:46	31:46	1:31:26

Turn the Tide 5K

On July 4, 2009, the Turn the Tide 5k was conducted at the Maury County Park.  The course ran up the big hill twice.  Brandon Harmon ran uncontested at the front.  Second place finisher, Patrick Carter, described Brandon as running so fast that his long hair stuck straight out behind him without flopping down on each step (an exaggeration–I think).

Columbia Cycling Club member, Kevin Mobley, headed up the run.  Turn the Tide is an organization dedicated to mentoring kids and assisting with skills needed to become responsible and dependable adults.  Other activities were  conducted at the park on that day including an informal bicycle ride.

Here are the entire results of the 5k:

Place	Awards	Name	Age	Time
1	1st O’all	Brandon Harmon	24	19:15
2	2nd Male	Patrick Carter	35	26:05
3	1st O’All	Rebecca Cline	17	27:01
4	3rd Male	Andrew Owen	10	27:45
5	2nd Female	Candice Campbell		27:46
6	4th Male	Mark Millen	43	29:05
7	3rd Female	Rachel Wolters	14	29:35
8		Chris Fletcher	42	29:55
9		Jay Smith	33	31:38
10		Jeffrey Thomason	45	31:45
11		Jim Bratton	14	31.58
12	4th Female	Olivia Owens	13	31:59
13		Ann Mullen	52	31:59
14		Sharon Tyre	43	32:46
15		Mark Sells	37	35:30
16		Charlotte Cornelius	42	35:47
17		Brandon Lokey	21	36:04
18		Tim Wolters	46	36:57
19		Charity Kimes	36	37:06
20		Ron Malugin	36	37:45
21		Leslie Taylor	32	38:09
22		Brandon Ward	25	39:22
23		Missy Taylor	29	41:52
24		Aaron Wolters	12	42:52
25		Kathleen Lokey	24	42:53
26		Brenda Pelletier	42	46:53
27		Emily Ferguson	27	46:52
28		Angela Faulkner	20	47:26
29		Meredith Guice		47:26
30		Sherry Smith		47:26
31		Jonathon Burchell	27	48:25
32		Regina Jennings	38	50:27

Lock 4 Double

Craig Evans at Lock 4 2009

A schedule conflict pressed director David Hardin to crunch both the Xterra Lock 4 Blast (off-road triathlon) and the Lock 4 Challenge MTB race on the same weekend (July 18 and 19, 2009).  For our two off-road triathletes, this meant a double, but the two prevailed over their respective field on the Sunday MTB races.

Craig Evans handily won the Saturday Xterra as he usually does.  His time was 1:38:59.  Jeff Yeager finished second in his 40-44 age group with a time of 2:17:22.  Full Xterra results

Following  are the local/CCC results of the mountain bike races.  The full results are here:  Full MTB results

Name	Division	Laps	Place	Finish
Craig Evans	Cat 1 30-39	3	1	1:56:10
Francis Fessler	Cat 1 40-49	3	6	2:06:04
Kenny Marshall	Cat 1-2 50+	2	1	1:20:54
Bill Buckingham	Cat 1-2 50+	2	3	1:27:45
Jeff Yeager	Cat 3 40-49	1	1	46:24