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Home My WebLink About1988-09-20 Support Documentation Town Council Work SessionVAIL TOWN COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1988 7:30 p.m. REVISED AGENDA 1. Consent Agenda A. Ordinance No. 26, Series of 1988, second reading, an ordinance repealing and reenacting Section 5.20.100 B. of the Municipal Code of the Town of Vail expanding the types of events which may obtain a special events exemption from the transient dealer's license; and setting forth details in regard thereto. B. Ordinance No. 27, Series of 1988, second reading, an ordinance annexing a portion of an area generally known as the Ulbrich property; and setting forth details in regard thereto. 2. Ordinance No. 29, Series of 1988, emergency reading, an emergency ordinance approving the general planning document for the World Alpine Ski Championships, and setting forth a special review process to allow for staff approvals for temporary signage, structures, street decor, and other. temporary improvements for the World Alpine Ski Championships of 1989. 3. Resolution No. 37, Series of 1988, a resolution honoring Maya Walker for her excellent performance in the Miss America Pageant and for her outstanding achievement of attaining First Runner Up to Miss America. 4. Chester Appeal of Planning and Environmental Commission Decision to Uphold the Staff Interpretation that a Residence may not be Demolished and Rebuilt to Utilize an Additional 250 sq. ft. as described in Chapter 18.71 of the Municipal Code (Lot 19, Block 1, Vail Village First Filing, 395 Mill Creek Circle) Applicant: Mr. E. B. Chester 5. Restriction for Parking Passes and Coupons during World Alpine Ski Championships CITIZEN PARTICIPATION 6.~ Adjournment VAIL TOWN COUNCIL WORK SESSION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1988 12:00 p.m. AGENDA 1. Swearing In of New Councilmember Michael Cacioppo 2. Discussion of Vail Athletic Ambassador Program 3. Discussion of Request to Locate a Deck on Town of Vail Stream Tract adjacent to the Glen Lyon Office Building 4. Information Update 5. Other 6. 1989 Budget Overview A. The Town's Fund System B. 1989 Revenue Projects C. 1989 Expenditure Budget D. Service Levels 7. Employee Compensation 8. Recreation Department Budget Review VAIL TO~AN COUNCIL WORK SESSION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1988 12:00 p.m. EXPANDED AGENDA 12:00 1. Swearing In of New Councilmember Michael Cacioppo Pam will ask Mike to stand and raise his right hand as she administers the oath to him. 12:05 2. Discussion of Vail Athletic Ambassador Program Tim Garton Action Requested of Council: Approve/modify/deny Tim Garton's request for funds. Background Rationale: See Tim Garton's enclosed memo concerning his request for $5,000 for the Uail Athletic Ambassador Program. 12:30 3. Discussion of Request to Locate a Deck on Town of Vail Kristan Pritz Stream Tract adjacent to the Glen Lyon Office Building Larry Eskwith Action Requested of Council: Allow/deny the applicant (Andy Norris, Vail Dentures Ltd.) to proceed through the review process for amending development approvals for the Glen Lyon Office parcel which includes the proposal to locate a bar/restaurant deck on Town of Vail stream tract. Background Rationale: The developer is proposing to amend the development plan for the Glen Lyon Office parcel to allow for the construction of a micro-brewery and brew pub as well as other improvements. The deck is associated with the brew pub and is located to the south of the property adjacent to Gore Creek. A site plan will be presented at the meeting. Staff Recommendation: The staff does not have a formal position on the request at this time. However, it should be pointed out that the proposed deck would be located on property zoned Greenbelt/Open Space. This zoning does not allow for restaurant decks and the district would need to be amended to allow for this use. In general, the staff has concerns about allowing a commercial deck to be built on TOV greenbelt/open space property. Our concern is that a precedent would be set that allows for developing TOV greenbelt/open space property for commercial uses. 12:50 4. Information Update 12:55 5. Other 1:00 6. 1989 Budget Overview Steve Barwick A. The Town's Fund System B. 1989 Revenue Projects C. 1989 Expenditure Budget D. Service Levels 3:00 7. Employee Compensation Charlie Wick 3:30 8. Recreation Department Budget Review Pat Dodson AIL 292 west meadow drive • vail, Colorado 81657 • 303 / 476-2040 METROPOLITAN RECREATION DISTRICT August 17, 1988 Mr. Kent Rose Town of Vail 75 S. Frontage Rd: Vail, CO .81657 ....Dear Kent .Several weeks ago, during your absence, I made a proposal to the Town Council that the Town of Vail as well as the VMRD, each contribute 55,000.00 to the Vail Athletic Ambassador Program. While the general reception was positive at-the Town of Vail, it was requested that I make this a formal proposal that you could .then consider during your upcoming budget hearings. ' Please consider this letter my formal proposal. I have requested the VMRD. support this program in the amount of 55,000.00, bath -this year and in 1989, and they have unanimously approved the concept. I have met with the Vail Valley Foundation and they have agreed, not only to administer the program ,'but also. to aid us in turning around the funding from public sources to private sources during the next 12 to 24 months. As you might remember from our previous discussions, the concept is a fairly simple one, whereby approximately 5 athletes would receive approximately 52,000.00 each towards their. expenses incurred in their training and competitions. This program is definitely not a scholarship nor is it intended to necessarily. fund athletes who are low on money. The concept was solely one of "quid pro quo". For example, it has come to our attention that there are a number of National and International class athletes residing in the Vail area from whom the Town of Vail receives .very little credit.. Our feeling has been that with proper support and encouragement, these athletes will, through mass media publications, and television, return our investment many times over. I have enclosed, for an example, a brief resume on Andreas Boesel for your review. Andreas is a typical example. of the type of athlete I feel we should sponsor. He has competed in both National and International Triathlon events, and in the past year has won two nationally televised events. -v Modern television coverage focuses, more then ever, on .the athletes as individuals and often spends a considerable amount of time doing in depth interviews as well as trips out to their home town, etc. I feel a proponent for Vail, such as Andreas, could only add to the allure of Vail. As Vail becomes known as a mecca for .world class athletes the spin offs should be substantial. I would appreciate it if you would let me know if you require any additional information or if you would like me to attend the specific budget hearing covering this application. Best regards, 'Tim Garton .Chairman of the Board mat enclosure cc: -John Slevin Merv Lapin Tom Steinberg Gail Warlich-Lowenthal Eric Affeldt ~n Phillips ~~ August 1, 1988 To Whom It May Concern: My name is Andreas Boesel, and I year resident of Vail, Colorado. professional athlete for most of resided in Vail. In the past my ship and support has been mainly moral nature. have been a fifteen I have been a semi- the years I have level of sponsor- equipment and of a I understand you are considering a number of Vail locals to represent Vail in the international arena. I would like to apply for such sponsorship, and feel privileged to be considered by the board. I have attached a short athletic resume with a list of races I am planning on comFetiny in through the ~._ up-coming months. Thank you for your consideration, and if there is any further information I can provide, please give me a call. Sincerely, ~z u `~ Andreas A. Boesel P.O. Box 595 Vail, CO 81658 (303) 476-7217 ANDREAS A. BOESEL P.O. BOX 595 VAIL, COLORADO 81658 (303) 476-7217 ~ Age: 38 Athletic Achievements 1972 - 1979 Pro Mogul Competitor (Beconta, Chevrolet & Professional Mogul Skiing Competitor) 1976 -Present One of Colorado`s top mountain runners ~ cyclists (many top five finishes throughout the state) 1983 -Sun Valley Triathlon, 6th place - Mile High Triathlon, 6th place 1984 -Sun Valley Triathlon, 3rd place - Aspen Triathlon, 1st place (course record) - Hawaii Ironman, 29th place, 6th in age group (televised ABC Wide World of Sports) - Nordik Wolf (10 mile run on snow - 6,000 ft elevation change) 1985 -Sun Valley Triathlon, 1st place - Aspen Triathlon, 1st place (new course record) - Phoenix Fountain Mountain Triathlon, 4th place, 1st in age group . 1986 -Estes Park Alpine Classic (27R, 728, 2S) - 1st place (one of the most grueling races in the country) - USTS Bud Light Tri, 14th place overall 1st Colorado finisher, 1st age group - -Colorado State Championships, 3rd place, 1st age group - Aspen Triathlon, 1st place (new course record) - Nice, France World Triathlon Championships, 50th place (televised CBS Sports) 1987 -Mountain Man Triathlon (15x/c, 9.5ss, 12.5ice sk}, 2nd place (televised ABC Wide World of Sports) - USTS Bud Light Tri, 16th place -World's Toughest Triathlon, Lake Tahoe, CA - 1st place - World's Highest Triathlon, Aspen, CO - 1st place (new course record) 1988 -Mountain Man Winter Triathlon - 1st place (to be televised by WTBS in November) - Idaho State Championships, 3rd place (Ironman qualifier) . -Heritage International Triathlon, Provo, UT - 25th place 3rd age group (best field assembled in 1988 :~ RACE SC~iEDULE Aug 14 - Denver USTS `T'riathlon Series Aug 27 - World's Toughest Triathlon, Lake Tahoe, CA (to be televised by ESPN) Sept 3 - World' s Highest `T'riathlon, Aspen, CO Oct 14 - Kauai Love's You Triathlon, Hawaii Oct 22 - Ironman World Championships, Kona, HI (televised by RBC) Jan 14 - Mountain Man Winter Triathlon, Vail, CO ~-~ (televised by ABC) '~:+~aLTI..:.~~-.w~.i,; .._..,.na~+e':~a~.tL..~...~.u. _... -;'s,5,~. ~:'Y~4`s~'~€"h e.IIe- ~d°"±~~t 2'A... -:awe. ~~'~~iiR"a 3~e V• A I L V A L L F Y ~-"~~-~ )3Y ROSALIE HILL ISOM ANDREAS BOESEL, TR/ATHLETE ~ -°~~'^ ~b... _ Pondering the distances ~~'~,•~.+~`.`€~~' R '"`~ h s ~`_ he has covered and the ~- ',_ ~`~ - ' ..r.v finish Lines he has reached t '~RS~ z ~; _ ~, first, Andreas Boesel quips, ~ _ ~ ~ ~ "If Coach Bell could see me " ~ ~ .,; now -the wimp of the `~ '°'`~- ninth grade PE class." ~~ ' ~`~ ~ With such wins under his ,r y ,~.. ~ ? :~?~ ~ Nikes as the Mountain Man #? '~r~'- ~ ~,~~` ~ Triathlon (Avon, February ~~' '` `~` '~'"s,,~~ 1988), the World's Toughest ~c~~y}~~` ~}"~~ ~ (Lake Tahoe, August 1987) and the World's Highest (Aspen, September 1987 ),Andreas explains his evolution as a triathlete, "I started running fifteen years ago. First thing you know you're running year-round, next thing you know, you're injured. Then, once you're injured you start to bike." Seven years ago, he heard about the first Iron- man Triathlon in Hawaii and has competed twice. It's been uphill and downhill ever since, according to this mountain specialist, "I do really well in the hilly cour- ses. The hillier the course, the better for me becac.ise of my body composition -the weight-to-strength ratio, and being pretty light. The smaller a n~nner is the less oxygen he takes. The world's elite runners weigh between 125 and 145 pounds." Andreas is a strawberry blond with hazel eyes who looks young and admits, "I'm pretty competitive, but I'm sort of an older guy. In endurance events you don't feel it as nwch. I'm 37 and fast- on a good day with a tailwind." In May, he was a local guide for the third annual Vail cross train- ing camp which brings athletes together to swim, bike, run, stretch and improve nutrition habits in preparation for their particular specialty sport. .The hardest part of racing for Boesel is keeping his motivation up between events. Too much racing kills en- thusiasm and lowers the threshold for pain. "I like to get enthused about certain races. The Mountain Man is nice. I do some of the hill climbs like the Vail Hill Climb, the National Masters in Montana (32-kilometer, 15- kilometer and a 3-by-10 relay cross country ski race)and the Strawberry Days 10-kilometer in Glenwood Springs. He and Dawes Wilson competed in the Nice (France) World Triathlon Championships a couple of years ago. He will go back to France to race in Nice this fall with slight- ly different travel plans. He and Shari Anderson will marry and honeymcx~n in Europe before the starting gun sounds in the bike, swim, run event on the Cote d'Azur. Andreas trains three or four hour. a day in summer. Fit- ness is integral to his lifestyle. He says it would be hard to imagine not working out, "I feel gcx~d all the time when I work out even an hour a day. I'm pretty high energy. i like to stay up late, get up early, squeeze it all in." German-born, Andreas and his mother emigrated to New Mexico when he was five. He enjoys working at Ambrosia and in the restaurant business in general be- cause it allows fur free days to train and ski. He studied anthropology in college but the ski bug bit and "changed my life.".Competitive mogul skiing came next. He had a personal goal of winning the Mountain Man, the World's Highest and the World's Toughest all in one year. With the wins in the record book, he is taking time now to set ~oa(s and make plans for his future. Contempla- tive? Yes, of course. 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By the time the triathletes had thrashed through the 2-mile swim, ped- aled the roller-coaster, 100-mile bike course (up almost 7,000 feet of vertical gain), and grunted through an 18.G-mile run that h;ld to have born designed by a sadist, they might have thought fora sec- ond they'd like [o tn` that imaginary triathlon. The one they'd just finished was a bitch. In 1985, the race hod been cancelled due to insurance--race organizers couldn't gek enough to satisfy a demand- ing Caltrans lawyer He wanted them to buy $3,000,000 worth of insurance, they could only afford a $1,000,000 pol- icy. Sadly, race directors Charlie and Kristen Lincoln cancelled the race. The day after they sent out notices to the triathletes that the race was history for that year, Caltrans softened and told them a $1,000,000 policy would be just fine. Unfortunately, it was too late. Like a baseball pitcher with a sore arm, the World's Toughest would have to sit one out. he 1937 W'orld's Toughest Triathlon had a lot to prove. After a year's hiatus, many wondered if the race would ever come o1Y~ again. This year's event would be a watershed. Either the race would he a big success and rise to even greater heights than in '84 and b~ (when the organizers ofTer:;d $50,000 in prize money), or it would die a slow, un- dignified death. Kristen and Charlie Lin- colnand their staff desperately wanted to avoid the latter. To attract more athletes, the Lincoln's and their crew derided to shorten the World's Toughest's course. They didn't make it uny cnsicr, they just removed some of the mileage. The way Charlie Lincoln describes it, they just "taok out all the flat spots." The 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, and 26.7-mile marathon of previous years was replaced by a slightly shorter swim, a bike course with an elevation level more suitable for con- dors than humans, and across-country run you wouldn't send your worst enemy on. Before the race, Charlie Lincoln had predicted that the slowest athlete would take three-and-a-half hours to complete the run. I-Fe was anly two-and-a-half hours off. The final finisher would take six hours, ten minutes and 21 seconds. Contenders at the race included An- drew MaeNaughton, his buddy and training partner Brad Kearns, Mark Mor,kgomery, Steven Mudgrtt, and dark horse Andreas Buesel, of Vail, Colorado. Bowel had shown his skill at endurance races at Colorado's Bud Light Mountain Man Winter Triathlon in February by coming within a lap on the ice skate of winning the cross-country ski, snowshoe and skate triathlon. 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Lake Tahoe, California Augus4 29, i 987 2-mile swim, 1Oa-mile bike, i8.6-mile flifl Top Ten Men Total 1 Androas Soesel 8:37:13 2 Stoven Mudgett 8:43:39 3 Jamie f3ethell 8:56:32 4 George Nhight 9:05:06 5 Jim Larrieu 9:06:29 6 Robert Isaacs 9:10:19 7 Ralph Searcy 9:21:16 8 Fred Vittegas 9:24:19 9 Rodney Raymond 925:21 10 Michael Momson 9:27:30 Top Ten Women Total 1 Julie Olson 9:48.38 2 Nancy Rogers 10:04:35 3 Lisa Verke 10:38:41 4 Cathy Vanoni 10:54:28 5 Judy Glynn 11:03:53 6 Barbara Wright 11:22.11 7 Cindy Soikkula 11:47:46 8 Helen Knox 12:19:47 9 Valorie Coyle 13:11:09 10 1_ouise Comar 14:03:04 Men (40+) Total 1 George Wright 9:05:06 2 Donald Caldwell 11:07:08 3 Gordon Gould 11:17:08 4 McAvoy Lane 11:28:40 5 Frank Perry 11:37:31 Women (40+) Total 1 Barbara Wright 11:22:11 2 Valerie Doyle 13:11:09 Though slowed down, this intrepid competitor was stiff undaunted; of the 29 dropouts during the bike and run, none were women. ~, 1l~arld'~ Tc~ughe~t s Triathlon ~; How tough was the run? One top Australian competitor who looked over the course belorehand decided against doing the race because of it. champion Julie Olson, local Cavorite Nancy Rogers, Lisa Verke, and Helen Knox, the women's overall winner of the Big Bear Triathlon Series. he race started promptly at 7:30 a.m. at the beach in the Camp Richardson resort, about 5 miles from downtown South Lake Tahoe. Mark Montgomery led the swimmers through the rectangular swim course that used the paddle-wheel excursion boat "Tahoe Queen" as its turnaround point. Montgamery finished the swim in 40:20, followed by a relay swimmer from the Guido and Garcia's relay team, Ralph Searcy, Louisiana's Paul Daniels, Jeremy Gilbert, 44-year-old masters triathlete George Wright, and Nancy Rogers, the first woman into the swim- to-bike transition. MacNaughton and Kearns followed Rogers seconds later. Unlike previous years when as many as half the swimmers dropped out, every competitor who started made it through the swim. (Of the 29 dropouts on the bike and run, none were women.) Andrew MacNaughton took the indi- vidual lead soon after hopping onto his bike, with Montgomery, Steven Mudgetr, Andreas Boesel and Kearns spread out behind him. MacNaughton, who storied the season iw~, ~c,rs I~~arnirrg that being a consistent ~~inncr wasn't that easy. He blanle;d his Icti.<-than-stcal:rr races at Stroh's Chicago (6th), ~'uncou- ver (DNF) and Bermuda (19th) to over- training. "[t's tither that or I'm out of shape," he said, hoping that a win at the World's Toughest would get him back on the winning track. Nancy Rogers had hit the shore in 40:44, ever six minutes up on Julie Olson. Rogers' strategy was to gain a hig lead in the swim, stay as :;lose to Olson as l:ossi- ble on the bike, and win the race in the run. Site knew that Olson ~+•as a fearsome cyclist and that s}~re'd need to stay ahead of Olson as long as possible. About two miles into the bike, however, R~~lgers flat- ted and couldn't get her fire otl. An ag- onizing 22 minutes later, her lead was gone, and so was Olson. Olson was never challenged again, winning the race in 9:48:38. Meanwhile, MacNaughton was trying to keep ahead of Kearns on the bike. It looked certain that if he held ofl~ Kearns he'd win, barring sumo sort of disaster. About a mile short of the top of Monitor Pass, disaster struck. MaeNaughton's rear fire blew, and when he tried to put on his spare, he ripped the valve stem out. It was at }cast two minutes before Brrd Kearns, iris training partner, passed him. "I was sur- prised Thad that big a Icnd," said the disappointed MacNaughton, placing his useless bike in the back of a pickup truck. Minutes later, Mark Montgamery passed the spot where MacNaughton had flatted. He was out of the race too, but he didn't know it. A volunteer had noted his number when he rolled through a stop sign in Hope Valley, about 25 miles into the bike. On the return trip from 8,314-foot-high Monitor Pass, Brad Kearns would also became a casualty of the World's Toughest Triathlon's strin- gent observance of tratlic rules. It wouldn't be the first time the race had disqualified one of its apparent win- ners. In 1984, thr triathlon's second year, Jacqueline Shaw of Canada failed to stop at a controlled intersection and was dis- qualified. She had to forfeit the ~ 10,000 first-place prize purse for her mistake. All Kearns was about to lose was n550 of the race's $2,000 prize money, a full day's work and round trip air fare to the Nice triathlon. But he wouldn't know it it until hours after he'd finished. But everything had been spelled out in a pre-race meeting: All trufiic laws rrrust be followed or else. All stops are foot- down stops. Kearns missed the meeting. He also missed a stop sign. According to the volunteer at the con- trolledstop, when she saw Kearns rapidly approaching the stop sign, she screamed "Stop! Stop!" but Kearns sped right past her. Race director Kristen Lincoln said that the volunteer told her after the race that Kearns just "gave her this look-and kept on going." After the race, Kearns didn't deny not stopping, but said that he had been waved through by nnother volunteer at the controlled stop. Lincoln told him that there had only been one person there. When Kearns tried to argue th,rt he never looks up when he rides, Lincoln coun- tered with the question: If you never look up, how could you see a volunteer wave you through'? "Hc had no answer to that," said 1_•incoln. Later, Kearns said the he held no hard feelings against the race organizers; he only wished he could have been pulled otT the course before the run. Kearns linished in 8:22:32, about 15 minutes ahead of Andreas Boesel, who wouldn't hear about his victory until the awards ceremony the next day. Kristen Lincoln waited until she could personally talk to the volunteer who had taken down Kearn's number before o(Iicially dis- qualifying him. Unfortunately for Kearns, that wasn't until a couple of hours after he had crossed the line-by then he'd given victory interviews to tele- vision and print media and headed off to savor his "win." Steven Mudgetr crossed the line six minutes after Boesel, followed by Jamie Bothell and top masters finisher George Fright. Both W'ri~,ht and his wife Bar- bara, the female masters winner, as well as overact winners Boesel and Olson, won round trip tickets to the Nice triathlon. mike the 1985 edition of the World's Toughest triathlon, where ~ competitors braved 60-degree wa- ter and winds with a chill factor of about 36 degrees on the hike, weather wasn't a real factor in the 1987 race. But those who had competed in both races agreed that this one was tougher. And most blamed it on the run. Doris Trueman, a top Australian triathlete, who had visited the race site about a month before the triathlon, took one look at the run course assistant race director Charlie Lincoln had laid out and labeled it "insane." Needless to say, she didn't show for the race. Olson, whose run split was 3:20:34, ran down some of the steepest parts backwards. "Pain was shooting though my knees when 1 tried to run forward," she said after the race. Olson thought the run was "awful," but liked the race anyway. "l've done over 70 races and this is the toughest. I'm glad the race is back." The sign above the road entering Camp Richardson had read: "World's Toughest Triathlon, The Ultimate Chal- lenge," and Bill Bell agreed. The 64- year-old Irongent, who has completed the l lawaii Ironrnan eight times, was the World's Toughest Triathlon's oldest com- petitor, and he finished in t 5:20:24. "The name of this race is accurate," said Bell. "V`v'hen t do the [romnan this year, I'm going to be laughing the whole way." The World's Toughest is back, it's tough, and its looking to stay a while. O TRIATHLETE November(DrremUer 1987 51 ~ Y ? .. ~ ~ y_ w ~rw t S{' ~~yy,.,r. .{eq/ ~ d . ,ti 4 Sc l 1L 1 l F - ~• ~ t l" ~~ 2~ ~ J;. • 1 ,, .r ~. ~,s ~ i ~{,,~ C F'ti ~ . ~ r } rk( iR7 r s~ ~~f r~ ~ ~1~~ ~5 ,~ ~ ~ i ~ )1 '', °' ..~ ~ `~ 314.,' j R r t ~,; ..`.,~.y~ ,`h c. ~Yx?~r..~irt' r a ,.. .. ~ r , a~ ~":~~-~ af° 's~~"~ty»r , ~~1p ~ ~ ~ t---.-- ,r, r ~' rv~ 't~+tt~> >~ e .~y~i Kam' t ,. f ` '~-idYG2~., S • S" ~+tk 1 r... 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Fit :' ~ ~~ al" i,.+ { ,,~~" ~~' r''' ,~ s,' , S ~ 7N* ,ry'e`," .§ ~ fi'' _ ' .. .'.M Lake whoa, California August 29,3987 2-mile swim, 10.0-mile bike, 38.6-mile run Top Ten Men Total 1 Andreas l3oesel 8:37:13 2 Steven Mudggett 8:43:39 3 Jarnie Betr~ell 8:56:32 4 George 1AMght 9"05:06 5 Jim Larrieu 9:06:29 6 Robert Isaacs 9:10:19 7 Ratph Searcy 9:21:16 8 Fred Viilegas 9:24:19 9 Rodney Raymond 9:25:21 10 Michael Mcxrison 9:27:30 lop Ten Woman Total 1 Julio Olson 9:48'38 2 Nancy Rogers 10:04:35 3 Usa Verke 10:36:41 4 Cathy Vanoni 10:54:28 5 Judy Glynn 11:03:53 6 Barbara Wright 11:22:11 7 Cindy Seikkula 11:47:46 6 Helen Knox 12:19:47 9 Va"aerie Doyfe 13:11'09 10 Louise Comar 14:03:04 Men (40+) Total 1 George Wright 9:05:06 2 Donald Caldwell t 1:07:09 3 Gordon Gould 11:17:08 4 McAvoy Lane 11:26:40 5 Frank Perry 11:37.31 Woman (40 +) Total 1 Barbara Wright 11:22:11 2 Valerie Doyle 13:11:09 Though slowed down, this indrepid competitor was still undaunted,• of the 29 dropouts during the bike and run, none were women. ~`).. ' Wetsuits were definitely appropriate Iar the two-mite swim in 6S-degree water. ~ ~~~ oi'~£~'~ T®c~ ~Q~t t $+Ls ~S, v..=- Kirsten Hanssen (lefrl made her ;move and blew by four women on the J, 570-foot climb to the peak of ~rkspur Bowl. The course of the oors Light Mountain Man Winter inathlon took athletes high info he ski areas above Avon, Colo- aAo. Bui it really didn't matter if rou were at [he fop or the bottom ~l the mountain; it was freezing everywhere. ,~; ~,- 1 ~,..: .. ., ......., nr. p.. ++.~ ..,~ ~_, .. ..i'.e,.tf a"" f K i ?, r' ` ~~ S ,~ Ff',j #I b~ ~ ~.A~~ ~ ~ ' ~ ~3.1 t ~1i ~~` 4~ mot.{~~~. ~~ f < ~ ~ °~ ~'~ ~.. .. , r '®e ~t \~ ,. ~` Kirst~r~ H~nssen surprises ev~ryene ~t tie ~/lo~ntain Man. by Richard Graham ~'j . ~. } ARK HARMON COULD HAVE GIVEN A PERFECT ' s'°"' television commercial testimonial for the 1988 Coors Light ~~~~ ~ ~ '` Mountain Man Winter Triathlon: "This 15-mile cross-country -ski, 9.1-mile shoe' shoe, 12.E-mi(e ice-skate race ain't no flat-land triathlon!" he'd say, staring forcefully into the camera. After all, the word around Avon, Colorado, before the race was that technique would be the difTerence between winning and losing. Locals said that only fui(-time winter training incross-country skiing, snowshoeing and o skating could produce a winning time-summer triathletes just wouldn't have the necessary skills. Dawes Wilson, the 1987 Mountain Man winner, agreed with that assess- ment. Before the race, Wilson said that no one from outside of Vail or Aspen had ever done very well in the race, mentioning Scott Molina's experience in the '87 race to back up his argument. (Molina had pulled out one lap into the ice skate after struggling through the ski and toughing out the snow- shoe.) "I think Molina's chances were blown out of proportion by the unin- formed. The Mountain Man is very technical." ~ TRIATHLETE Mny 1988 37 y e ..~.>,~,..r.....~ ~ ____~~.,_.~_.__ .. , ... _. ~ '+I ,la-~rvs , a lr ~' 1 ~ 1 % -' ~t ! 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L ,~ ~ .+F ~ ~-; ~ a d "`~~ ~. ~~~~~~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~. 1 ? ~- ~ ~~~ ~ ~~ -r-' '~~ '~ ~ There were 151 competitors at the start line with ambitions of victory. but it was , 195Ts runner-up Andreas Boszl (left) o who eventually outdistanced the field. Technical indeed. At the very begin- ~ ning of the 15-mile cross-country ski leg, competitors faced a 50-yard hill as steep as the Matterhorn and about as icy. Next came a gradual four-mile; climb, followed by a screaming descent on narrow cross- country skis designed more for traveling long distances than for speeding down hills. Trying to control cross-country skis on steep downhills is like trying to skate- board on one leg. Laughing, some locals _ \ intimated that some of the less practiced skiers in the race were likely to crash into a tree or come to rest in a snow drift. Dawes Wilson and Andreas Boesel were the two top male contenders at the Mountain Man. Wilson had won in '87, edging out a fading Boesel in the final lap. Wilson, a house painter in summer and ski racer in winter, had won the race twice. After the '87 race, Boesel joked around, calling himself "the winter-time Julie Moss" for his fade in the last laps of the skate. But the joke masked a strong desire to win. Boesel would be lough this year. His '87 summer season had been im- pressive. In August he won both the World's Toughest Triathlon in Lake Ta- hoe, California, and the Aspen Triathlon in Colorado. Never much of a factor in low-altitude races (his best finish was a 16th at USTS llenver), Boesel was at his best when he was high. Literally. Skip Hamilton, 42, who had evon in '86, was also a threat to win. Clint Rob- erts,the third-place finisher in '87, was in training for the U.S. Olympic Cross- Country Ski Team and wouldn't be racing. The women's favorite was Cheryl Chipman, a waitress in Vail when shF ~ isn't skiing, and she's alK~ays skiing. 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Women's favorile Chery! Chipman started the ice skate just three-and-a-half minutes behind neophyte winter triathlete Hanssen, but Chipman just cotddn't make up the difference. was unsafe for skating. llanssen had led until the final downhill in the showshoe leg, only to lose her lead in the run and finish third. Before the '88 race, I Janssen said the best she was hoping for was a top-five finish. -s< he l~l competitors took ofT in a ~~ mass start at 8:30 a.m. on Satur- day, January 4, spurred into ac- tion by riNe blasts tired off by two full- beardcd "mountain men." The day before had been clear and cool, but nuw low, thick clouds cut visibility drunati- cally, and the temperature at the start hueerc:d around 10 legrces. [t was snow- ing steadily, and the white stuff contin- ued fulling throughout the race, clearing only as the last skaters reached the ice. Dawes Nilson took an early lead, but Boesel sped past him as if he was being chased by a renegade grizzly, not merely a bunch of competitors seeking the $1,000 first-place prize money. I }e in- creased his lead with every mile of the ski leg. Cheryl Chipman was also ripping up the cross-country ski. A master of the controversial "skating" technique (push- ing off the inside edge of the skis in a motion similar to that used in ice skat- ing), Chipman led from the start, and picked up a huge lead---24 minutes- over Hanssen after the first leg. The lo- cals were beginning to look like prophets, But Hanssen, single-minded, unrelent- ing, began to make up time in the snow- shoe leg. With her tennis shoes bolted into metal-clawed snowshoes, Hanssen pounded her way up three gut-wrenching climbs in the 9.1-mile snowshoe-pump- ing 1,570 feet up Larkspur Bowl, the fi- nal climb, as curious weekend skiers zipped down nearby. In sixth-place at the start of the snow- shoe, Hanssen swept past four women by the time Chipman made it to the top of Larkspur Bowl. During the lnal descent Gypsum, Colorado's Margie Mayne, who had finished third in '87, and Sara Ballantyne, a top mountain bike rider who had wan the Kaleigh Technium Mountain Bike Wurld Championships in Mammoth Lakes, California, in August '87. And of course, there was Kirsten HanSSI'n. f'ub-side prognusticatorsilidn't give her an icicle'; chance in a hot tub to win. Thug obviously didn't know Kirsten Hanssen. The I;remier female summer triathlete of 1987, Hanssen had raced in the Moun- tain I\Lrn in 1986. That year, a 1Sk run replaced the ice skate because the lake ~0 TRIATHLETE May 1988 ~~ ,, ~. 5i J ~ 9 b,ti ~ ,~~~ ~ 4 t ~ ~~ T+ d _ J ~ 1 c ,;i ~ ~ r. y ~.< ' ~ ~p~ ,~F ~ ., ,~ ~ ~ ~~ ~~~ ~ ~ ' .« ,~ ~K `' r>-~ L, e k t ~ r- q, ~ r ~, a 1 J~ t ~1~, ''• `, James Lund of WaiF, Cudorado, fumed in the fifth-fastest ski split on his way to asixth-place Doers!! finish. through Bachelor Gulch to the 12.4-mile ice-skate leg on Nottingham Lake, Hanssen also passed Chipman. But the question was whether she could hold off Chipman, an excellent skater, in the final event. ndreas Boesel had a 10-tap lead ~,~ on the rest of the field by the time `~ Skip Hamilton, the second man to reach the ice, pul on his skates. Unless his ankles betrayed him again, it seemed that Boesel had the race in the bag. That is, if he didn't have to race farther than anyone else. After the '87 race, competitors com- plained that they had skated extra laps because the lap counters missed them. In an attempt to head off such problems, the organizers had skaters pass through one of three separate chutes. It was hoped that since the volunteers would have fewer people to keep track of, they could count laps more accurately. The new sys- tem failed at least one athlete, l 1 th-place finisher Steven Mudgett. "I skated five extra laps!" he shouted angrily to a friend after finishing. "[ protest!" As Hanssen reached the ice, the an- 42 TRIATHLETE May 1988 nouncer noticed that she wasn't wearing the long-bladed speed skates used by most of the ather athletes. "There's no way she can win this race with hockey skates," he announced to the crowd. He didn't know Hanssen well either. During the first 15 or so laps of the 34- lapskate, Chipman gained a few seconds on Hanssen each turn around the ice. But Chipman inexplicably began to fade, and Hanssen was soon picking up 10 seconds, then 25 seconds, then 50 seconds on Chipman per lap. Bent at the waist to cut through the strong winds that blew down the north side of the lake, Hanssen skated smoothly and powerfully. When she crossed the finish line, still hunched over at the waist, but because of a sore back instead of the wind, Hanssen yelled, "I can't stop!"-her lessons in skating hadn't gone that far. Hanssen finished in six hours, seven minutes and 49 seconds, with Chipman following about eight minutes later. Margie Mayne, Telluride's Karen Lee Miller, and Sara Ballantyne were the next women to cross the line and get awell- deserved rest. Susan Sherry, the women's winner at the Aspen Triathlon, wore figure skates and finished last in 8:44:23, more than two-and-a-half-hours after Hansen. "1 was really surprised when I heard that she'd raced in figure skates," race direc- tor Ted Martin said later. "That's like riding a tricycle in a criterium. It's quite an accomplishment." Skip Hamilton finished 14 minutes af- ter Boesel, followed by Jim Parker of Vail and Dawes Wilson. Wilson had com- peted in two ski races in each of the three weekends preceding the Mountain Man, but didn't feel that that was a factor in his placing. "I'd been sick, and 1 ihink that that took something out of me." Cheryl Chipman was also disappointed, but not too much-she raced in a tele- mark ski race the next day. Warren Ohlrich, 48, gave one of [he day's most outstanding performances, finishing eighth overall. But the biggest story of the day was still Kirsten Hanssen-the doubters had underestimated her fiery determination. Hanssen wasn't content with being the summer triathlete of the year-she was out to prove that she owns the winter time too. ~ O ZI O descent, he finished two minutes under his 1985 record time, a full 21 minutes ahead of the competition. Farther back on the jarring hill that Bowel had just come down, New Mexico's Lori Salisbury told a volunteer, "I'll make it if I have to roll down!" Her determination was typical as all but one of the 72 starters finished. "If the course has hills, [ do well," said Bowel, a previous winner of Colorado's Estes Park Triathlon. "[ do this in the summer and in the winter ['m a ski bum." BIG BEAM TRIATHLON SERIES $ig Bear Lake, California August 17, 1988 .5-mile swim, 15-mile bike, 4mile run Men (Overall) Emilio Desoto .................................... 1:12:41 Bryan Fahrenbach .............................. 1:13:22 Tim Sheeper ....................................... 1:13:49 Women (Overall) Susan Griesbach ................................. 1:25:05 Kristy Kidwell .................................... 1:25:24 Susan Lunt .......................................... 1:27:35 Men (40+) Rene Ruiz ........................................... 1:31:44 Lawrence Taylor ................................. 1:32:03 Bart Hackley ...................................... 1:33:20 Women (40 + ) Gillian Ackland .................................. 1:45:08 June Johnson ...................................... 1:55:14 Carmen Formaris ................................ 2:03:24 A triathlon tradition is rapidly growing in the ski resort town of Big Bear, thanks to the Go Sports organization. This particular weekend's festivities began with the race check-in and a triathlon clinic at Ronardo's Restaurant on Saturday evening. The featured speaker was Emilio Desoto, one of Southern California's top triathletes. L~r t~ car ~ ~ ~t~ Su~erT~ur ~T Monarch ST is the lightest #z : ~ +~ ANSI 290.4 rated helmet '.'? '° et 10.2 oz. ,lack Lambie aerodynamic design ,~d gives maximum cooling s~ and minimum drag. Fiber- ;~ glass shell gives superior ` ~ ' impact absorption to plastic. Cut high in back for proper fit in racing t. ,.. position. Great for l t i ,,~~;3 " y e c-s touring, too. Class f'j ~: comes in 5 sizes and 21 3~ +, ` colors. Includes quick- ~,r r '' release fastener and chin rti cup. Call toll-free today. ~. ,~; Ail ~1 x'90.4 Suggested Retail 4595 ST SuperTour O ~.~~F ~ 525 t4 ` ~'~~` ~ Aerodyne 4 or 5 ! ..-'~*. ,.Rab,' A~r~O~ :si01c ,- „„ }'. Now, Aerodynes , ,~:~ rrt >,~ - ,= have polystyrene Er~,"~ ~' liners and ANSI ~ 4~r '>i .~~='; ~a p 290.4 for USCF rac- ~~ cr, ~' :.,y, ing. p4 (left) for 1 i `~' USCF, and ~5 (right) for UCI. 3648 Main St. Chula Vista, CA 92011 toll /roe 800-854-2096 in CA toll tree 800-833-5566 619-427-1503 HELMETS The very personable and entertaining DcSoto, sporting a new Pee Wee Herman- style haircut, gave an excellent lecture that included the most current training and racing strategies. His clinic surely benefited everyone who attended, as well as giving them a few good laughs. Sunday morning came quickly as the competitors assembled at Meadow Park Beach. The water was surprisingly warm, and even inspired the removal of most wetsuits. The swim was a humbling experience for most; due to the thin mountain air. The transition area was so well-organized, designed, and secured that it was hard to believe. Accordingly, the transition times were very fast. The 15-mile loop around the main body of the lake was a breathtakingly beautiful ride. It was enough to make the racers forget the usual agony associated with race fatigue and altitude oxygen debt... almost. The run served as a formidable challenge [o all the sea-level beach lovers in attendance. The competitors finally wound their way past the last of the quaint vacation bungalows back to the beach and the finish line. In the men's open division, Emilio Desoto was able to hold off Bryan Fahrenbach and Tim Sheeper for the win. In the women's competition, Susan Griesbach outdueled Kristy Kidwell on the run for an exciting victory. The race results were quickly posted, and competitors enjoyed a nice fruit bar and cold drinks. The race organizers had once again upheld the Big Bear Triathlon's reputation as one of the best around. -Dan Gardner BUD LI~rHT ENDURANCE TRIATHLON Cape Cod, Ma>3t~achllaetts September 8, 1988 2.4mile swim, l l~mile bike, 28.~mile run Men (Overall) Scott Molina ..............:........................8:48:43 Marc Surprcnant ................................9:02:00 Kevin MacKinnion .............................9:28:46 Women (Overall) Julie Olson ..........................................9:57:08 Beth Nelson ......................................10:10:10 Janine Garfinkel•Childs ...................10:26:59 Men (40+) Premananda Childs ..........................10:19:13 Guy Stretton .....................................10:28:00 William Salomons ............................10:58:07 Women (40 + ) Joni Van Der Veen-Dunn .................11:47:59 Freya Tanz ........................................13:51:38 Blustery winds, choppy water, and a slightly longer course all combined to destroy Scott Molina's bid at a new course (and unofficial world) record. He trailed, in fact, most of the race, finally taking the lead away from hometown favorite Marc Surpreaant at the mark of the marathon. In conjunction with the triathlon, distance swimming world-record holder Paul Asmuth left Nantucket Island, not only hoping to become the first human to swim the 31 miles to the mainland, but to beat the winner back to the start-finish area as welt. ~~, 51 TRIATHLETE Oecember1988 Emilio DaSoto'a victory at the second B/g Bear Triathlon made h/m the points /seder of the three-race series. .~ -- --- - ~~ 4 Fliiabeth Bulman was the women's winner but she had tough wmpetitiun Irum second ', and third place finishers, Kirsten Hansen ~~ and Juli Brening. ~` 1 -s. s Bud Light U.S. TRIAT~ILON SERIES Denver, Colorado July 27, 1986 1.5k swim, 40k bike, lOk run Men (Overall) Mike Pigg .................................. ......... I:S6:4S t-larold Robinson ....................... ......... 1:57:21 Ken Glah .................................... .........1:54:15 Women (Overall) Kirsten lianssen ........................ .........2:08:39 Beth Mitchell ............................. .........2:12:01 Julie Olseri ................................. .........2;13:29 Men (40+) Ross Richard ............................. .........2:19:51 Chad Chadwick ......................... .........2:21:17 Dave Robinette .......................... .........2:21:19 Women (40+) Jackie Marr ............................... .........2:50:32 Betty Smith ....:........................... .........2:50:52 Marcy Harlow ........................... .........2:51:25 It's been described as one of the most difficult races on the circuit, second perhaps only to USTS Phoenix. The bike portion wound through some of the steepest hills Denver had to offer with a spectacular view of the Precambrian rock formations along the way. For the first time in• a major triathlon, a $1,000 bonus was awarded- to the first man and woman to pass a preem-line which was marked after 17 miles into the bike course in the village of Roxborough. Both overall winners, Mike Pigg and Kirsten Hansen, won the bonuses. -SS Bud Light U.S. TRIAT~LC)1°~T SERIES Detroit, Michigan July 20, 1986 1.6k swim, 40k bike, lOk run IV1en (Overall) Ken Glah ............................................. 1:48:07 Mike Pigg .................................:......... 1:49:02 John Devere ........................................ 1:49:03 Women (Overall) Elizabeth Bulman ............................... 2:01:33 Beth Mitchell ...................................... 2:02:28 Kimberly Groleau ............................... 2:03:46 Men (40+) Michael Hubler .................................. 2:05:11 Christopher Dobyns ............................ 2:12:51 Douglas Scofield ................................. 2: 13:36 Women (40 + ) Elizabeth Burt .................................... 2:28:2 Susan Bradley Cox ............................. 2:32:39 Patricia Comer .................................... 2:36:51 Though it was sweltering on the days before, race day in Detroit dawned clear and cool with a slight breeze that keNt temperatures down into the 80s and the humidity on the low side. Nearly 1,000 individuals and 38 relay teams turned out on beautiful Belle Island for the start of a race soon to be embroiled in controversy. The week of the race, the city of 52 TRIATHLETE December 1986 ,~ - f '" °~~ 5 c~~. . ~ '~ a~. ~~3+2~~ ~x ~ Ei's ~~ Sea. i^..,..} ~ '• { -~, ~~,r ter, ~' ,~ ~ 7.~.~a. S r "h ~~"Y?f ~~ ~ ~~~~ r~ r .. ~ # •~ ~ ..F f, fair p ,z e '' r , a )^-' ,~'Y~ ,~ r UL4~~4+.ry4 ~1e ~, w4 ¢~ 4~ ~~ ~ ~ "~: j~x,~: + '. ~~/ a. r1C4 ' ~ r f` ~, t'; y '~;~i A~' t'-3: r r ~~~ i t n ~ ~~~ +~ ~r~1,, -h ,- ~" r 'K.'`r~ . F: y r.~ ~~ ~ ` : +i r•' ~ ~ : ~ .~ { -'i, t ~' a €~ ~,, , .. ~ , x~~` i~K ~t~~: / ~~c j.. ~r~'`i:~ 3..;ti x,47: {~ ,C+J,` ~, ;, t ,~ 6 ~.a .~ttf ^~ b,~+ ~, ,-» ~ :~_ ~ ;~ ~,~ +~' `,~ r tti ~~~ f r ~, hh,~u c . '~ ~yy-"~iNl„~ ~ ~; ~~+~ i ti r+.,,~. ;~ ,~,. i. r1 ~~~ y ,~;a ~ ~+,"e^ ~ dlt Yw. nF^,; Colorado's Aspen Triathlon has ono of the praNiast-and toughest-courses anywhere. Detroit went on strike so approximately 250 police cadets were unavailable to monitor the course. Women's race leaders Bulman and Groleau accidentally failed to tide the full bike course, reportedly due to misdirection from a volunteer. After a review of the situation, race officials decided to add seven minutes to both Bulman and Groleau's time, but nut disqualify them. That left Bulman still in first, a frustrated Beth Mitchell in second, Groleau in third, and Debbie Kauzlarich in fourth. On the men's side, the race was a clean, clear win for 22-year-old Ken Glah, his first- ever Bud Light USTS win. Mike Pigg outsprinted John Uevere by a nose for second Pla -S.S. I! ~~~' ~ TRI~TI'IL®N Aspen, Colorado Saptc~mbor 8, 1986 1-mile swim, 39 mile bike, li}mile run Men (Overull) Andreas Boesel ................................... 3:38:43 Dawes Wilson ..................................... 3:59:26 Russel Bollig ....................................... 4:00:1 I Women (Overall) Nancy Stark ....................................... 4:26:50 Nicole Rosa ......................................... 4:54:11 Jaclynn Parks ......................................4:59:50 Men (40+) John Gerber ........................................ 4:20:35 Terry Young ........................................ 4:35:04 Bub Julich ........................................... 4:35:37 Women (40+) Brooke Newman .................................6:18:54 "We have what is possibly the most beautiful course in the world," boasted race co-director Dave Barbier, "and definitely the highest." Indeed, with 6,100 vertical feet of climbing split evenly between the ride and run, and the run cresting at the 11,212-foot summit of Aspen Mountain, you practically need to bring an oxygen tank. And with a temperature range from the 30s to the 80s (competitors were dusted by a light snowfall last year), you had better also bring your Gore-Tex rainsuit and sunscreen. Triathletes looking for a challenge converged on Aspen wi[h masochism on their minds. Following a pool swim (Aspen has no lakes), they embarked on two 1,500 faot i climbs in the saddle, then the 3,000-foot ascent of Aspen on the run that was so steep and relentless that only two competitors were known to have run the whole way. The body- thrashing was topped ofl with a 3,000-foot plunge alongside a ski slope. "You've done something if you just complete this course," observed race co-director Jim Jackson. Even so, the field had filled weeks early and more than 100 would-be entrants were turned away. Veil's Andreas Boesel, a consummate mountain-course specialist and winner of the two previous Aspen affairs, had come a long way aquatically since coming out of Kona Bay in 374th at the 1984 Hawaii [ronman. Here, he was third fastest to dry ofT with a respectable 25:16 swim. Starting the two long bike climbs amid the $3 million homes in Roaring Fork Valley, Bowel ascended toward a trio of Colorado's many 14,000-foot peaks-mountains that inspired the phrase "purple mountain majesties" in "America, the Beautiful." Scorching the descents that followed at 50 mph, Bowel's lead grew, and his best event was still ahead. Powering up Midnight Mine Road, 5 miles of IS percent grades, Boesel soon led by a time-zone. Never braking on the final ~q ~E O TES ~`'~ ~`~. h~ '.+ -~~ ,' 3r4 t~ ~ t ; 4. IM i n~'. , t ;; ~~,,;. ~~°n . (~ '~ '''' r }h ti ;~ : a ~r £~ x70,"..,.~ 4, ~ ? , ~: 4v~4 '~ +~ '" ,~.~ »~; `t 17~~' ." s ~' r n .c_h:.~ , ri i ,) a_'~ ~'~_i~ ,~~ " -_~ .r . ~ - . ,~ ~ r f, , ~ ~; S~ y ..I jl ~~ x ~, ; 6~ ~::~ z r x ~ ~ ,~ ~,' ~!L & ~~' y, ~}r~Y , 4i -._ ~1 .,~, ,z. s r•, ~'~~ t• ~' ps r , ,M + r ~ ~ w ~. ~ } M', y ~ ~ ' { ~ Y - 41. ~, ~*°~ rb`~,~ 0 ~ ~ `~ ~ :~~ i~ z Pete Wright led the first men's heat out of the glassy, 70-degree water, but it was Scott Shruder who headed out of the transition area first. By the end of the run, though, it was Erik Walk whose fastest run split of the aay (21:27) put ltim in the lead at the start of the final leg. Drew Renick, playing catch-up the entire race, finally did on the bike. As he passed Sea World with only a mile to go, he had routed his competitors with a 25:26 bike split. Molly Barnum lead the women, with Kate Murphy and Elaine Alrutz close behind. But Alrutz blazed both the run and bike to win by three minutes. Not bad, considering she had given birth to her first child only two weeks earlier. After the race, the 450-plus competitors celebrated the centennials of La Jolla, Pacific Beach and Ocean Beach at the Pacific Beach community picnic. Many of the novice triath)caes said that they'd be back in '88. 52 TRIATHLETE February 1988 ~-;~'; lam. ;.~ ~-~' rr Ear :! •' ,! ...~ r'~ '~h'~ ASPEN, COLORADO ~~~ ~~d~~~~~~ September 12, 1987 1-mile swim, 39-mile bike, 10-mile run Men (Overall) Andreas Boesel ..... ...................... .........3:33:33 David Havelick ..... ...................... .........3:51:54 Dale Peterson ....... ...................... .........3:53:22 Women (Overall) Susan Sherry ....... ...................... .........4:24:54 Barbro Nyleen ..... ...................... .........4:2S:3S Barb Haetner ....... ...................... .........4:39:48 Mca (4U+) Chip Knight ........ ...................... .........4:20:46 Dan Ncyenhuis ..... ...................... .........4:21:31 Ted Schall .......... ...................... .........4:37:22 Women (40+) Brooke Newman .. ....................... .........5:22:36 ANDREAS BOESEL KEPT HIS ENDUR- ance-triathlon victory string going by winning the "world's-highest" Aspen Triathlon. Not only did Bcesel win for the fourth year in a row (the only overall winner the race has ever known), but he was also coming off wins at thn WorW's Toughest Triathlon in Lake Tahoe, California, and the Estes Park race in Colorado. Race director Steve Hall was impressed with Bowel's victory. "! think that Andreas could beat Mark Allen and Scott Molina in long-course endurance events at elevation." Susan Sherry won a very close race in the women's overall category, defeating Barbro Nyleen by only 39 seconds. Athletes from the state of Colorado had a fold day at the event, taking the men's and women's top-three places overall and the top- three places in the master's category. Competitors climbed a total of 6,100 vertical feet during the bike and run legs of the triathlon. The following Jay, Colleen Cannon won the short-course Aspen Triathlon, consisting of a half-mile swim, an 18-mile bike, and a S-mile run. MALIBU, CALIFORNIA September 20, 1987 .5-mile swim, 18-mile bike, 5-mile run Moo (Overall) Emilio Desoto ..................................... 1:25:01 ton Black .......................................... 1:26:42 Jahn Fletcher ...................................... 1:31:01 women (Over~n) Janet Mamon ..................................... 1:43:56 Pennie McLaughlin-Hall ......................... 1:45:58 i Terri Kold ......................................... 1:46:55 Moo (40+) Richard Reyes ..................................... 1:39:43 Reynold Kalstrom ................................ 1:42:03 Thomas Hanlon ................................... 1:43:01 Women (40+) Bonnie Burton ..................................... 2:20:33 Ellen Friedman .................................... 2:28:25 Debbie Forrester .................................. 2:30:25 EMILIO DESOTO WON THE FIRST Malibu Triathlon in the picturesque beach town famous for its surfing and the celebrities who live nearby. Michael Epstein, the 26-year-old race director, said, "Desoto blew everyone away." However, a relay runner ran Desoto down to cross the finish line first. Janet Mamon, the winner of the Gold Coast Triathlon Series, cruised in two minutes up on her nearest competitor to win the women's race. Over 400 triathletes swam in the 68- degree Pacific Ocean on a warm and sunny day. The bike course meandered through the hills above the Pacific Coast Highway, and the run was on white-sand Zuma Beach. Rich Havens, a race director from Massachusetts, raced in the triathlon as part of his nationwide triathlon-a-day trek to raise money in the name of Christa McAuliffe, the New Hampshire teacher killed in the space shuttle Challenger disaster. After the race, a live band played for the competitors at Trancas Restaurant, the race's prime sponsor. The Aspen Triattrlon demands some of the most quad-busting climbs in the sport; bui the downhills are tremendous/