Up Side Down DU Review
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Sunday morning greeted athletes with sunny skies and calm winds as they arrived for the Up Side Down Duathlon at Camp Ingawanis. The event was the first of it's kind in the area and the participants were going to be treated to some of the best single track in Iowa. After a pre-race briefing at 9:45 the participants placed their bikes about 75 yards from the starting line to get ready for the La Man's start.
At 10:00 they were off. After a short stretch of open grass the athletes hit the challenging single track for the next 4.1 miles or so.(each lap was a total of 4.6 miles) After the first lap Jeff Kerkove of Team Ergon was in the lead with Rob Houlihan from BTR not far behind. The Runner's Flat Scott Gall was in third and Casey Dean fourth. Kerkove(Chad Juel) and Dean(Kasey Smidt) were part of the team competition while Houlihan and Gall rocked the course solo. In the women's field Sarah Gall was first off the bike with Dawn Keller settling into second position. Jill Sinwell was also having a nice race before a mechanical failure caused her to drop out.On the run positioning stayed the same throughout the entire field. The Up/Downs and Sand Wall did not seem to favor any athlete over another. It was looking like those with superior bike handling skills may have the upper hand.
After the run athletes mounted their bikes for the final 4.6 miles of mountain biking. Positions held and crossing the line first with the best overall time of the day 1:32:14 was the team of Kerkove and Juel. Just 5 minutes later Houlihan crossed the line to take the men's overall with Gall crossing 3 minutes later for second in the men's overall.
Sarah Gall was able to hold off the women's field for a first place overall with a time of 2:11:49.
Keller took second with a time of 2:23:28
Full results can be found here.
A huge thank you goes out to everyone that accepted the challenge and attempted the event.
Events like this are not possible without help from a great volunteers and CVA has the best, so another big thank you to them!
And last but not least, thank you to all the sponsors. If you don't know who they are just look to your left and scroll down. These companies and businesses are very passionate about what they do. Their products and services are here to make you, the athlete, better and stronger.
Michale Lubbers completing the Up/Downs
posted by All3Sports @ 7:55 PM,
1 Comments:
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At 8:36 AM,
Jeff Kerkove said...
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Enjoyed myself. Now, maybe I need to talk up running.