Iron Fit Endurance Race Results and News
Race season is fully underway and Iron Fit Endurance athletes have been posting fantastic results already! It is so exciting to see everyone’s hard work paying off! I couldn’t be prouder.
On March 22nd, Noah Lam completed his first Ultra event. Noah (pictured here running as well as with his wife Irene below) completed the New Jersey Ultra Festival 50K! After experiencing a bad fall on the very first loop of the run, Noah got up and shook it off to finish strong posting a 7:38! You can read about the race on Noah’s blog: http://www.runwithnoah.com/2014/03/missing-common-sense-for-my-first-ultra.html
Noah posts regular blog entries on www.runwithnoah.com. When I asked him about “Run with Noah”, he replied, “
“During my training of my first marathon, my friends and family would ask me how I was doing, so I started emailing updates on my running adventures (now adding my triathlon training), which eventually evolved into Run With Noah. Sharing my stories was a way to let everyone know what I was getting myself into and a way to make sure I continue with my training. What I did not realize was that I started to inspire others to get up and run and be more active for their families as well”.
Noah certainly is an inspiration. You can follow his training for Ironman Arizona 2014 on his blog as well!
Another Iron Fit Endurance athlete, Kelly Russell (pictured here in pink), finished an extraordinary race last week. The Hyner View Trail Challenge is a trail run that traverses over 3 mountains! The total elevation gain is over 4,000 feet in 16 miles (elevation profile pictured below)! Kelly did a fantastic job, finishing in less than 4 hours. Kelly will be racing Ironman Lake Placid this July and will certainly be ready for the hills that Placid offers up after finishing this race!
Two athletes, Jose Hernandez and Johnny Graziano, ran 5K races on the sa
me weekend (Jose in Huntington and Johnny in Patchogue). Both ran super-fast times, Johnny posting a PR of 19:36 finishing 6th overall and 1st in his age group, and Jose just missing a PR, finishing in 20:01 and also finishing 1st in his age group.
Despite the fast race results, Jose was most excited about his son and daughter, who ran the 1 mile kids race that morning! Jose is pictured with his kids here after their races. Congrats to all three!
This past weekend, we had 3 athletes competing in the Long Island Half Marathon and 10K. Peter Morandi competed in the 10K with a solid finish. Peter has been recovering from an injury which took him out from running for over 2 months! He is getting back to running gradually and doing a great job at it. This past Sunday was his longest run. He ran the 10K at a steady pace and felt great at the finish, which is all a coach can ask for at this point. I am so pleased with his progress! He will be competing in his first half ironman this season!
Deepak Chopra and Susan Roman both completed a hard interval workout on the bike with the group at Hecksher State Park this past Saturday morning. Despite the hard bike workout the day before, Deepak had a solid race which was executed as a training day for his upcoming race, Syracuse 70.3. Susan Roman ran the half as well and had a huge PR of 3 minutes 8 seconds! What's most amazing is that Susan was sidelined with an injury this past year. She just started up running again in January. In her own words Susan describes the experience coming back from the injury: “So happy to have run well today. It took some careful planning to get me to this spot. To think that from August --> November I was hardly able to consistently run. Then I was completely shut down from running through January. Easing back into it 10 minutes at a time with a nice buildup to the half marathon today.” She did the half without tapering as she is training hard for Ironman lake Placid in July! It should be exciting to see what she does up there!
Noah Lam and Christa Dwyer competed in the Palisades Half Marathon this weekend. Noah finished with a solid performance despite some Achilles trouble mid-race.
Christa Dwyer had a fantastic finish at the Palisades as well, running a blazing 1:56 and placing 2nd in her age group! Christa will be competing in Ironman Florida this November and will undoubtedly have an impressive performance down there! Christa is pictured below on the podium.
In Training news, we had a beautiful training day up in Harriman State Park a few weekends ago. We had a big group up there (about 15 people in total) training on the course. First stop was the Perkins climb, before heading onto the Harriman course for hilly loops (Jose pictured atop Perkins). Our half Ironman athletes completed 3 hours on the bike before transitioning with a run off the bike at Tiorati Lake. Our Ironman athletes completed 5 grueling hours on the bike with a run off the bike as well! The weather was fantastic up there with the temps in the 60’s and the sun shining. We will head up there again very soon so check the calendar for any updates on the next trip. We are also continuing our track workouts at 5:30AM on Thursdays at West Islip H.S. In addition, we are starting up bike intervals at Hecksher State Park on Tuesdays at 5:30PM. This Tuesday (May 6th) will be our first bike interval session. We will continue to do the bike intervals every Tuesday night. Come join us for any and all events!
Happy Training!
Dee