Junior Series Race #1 - Bird's Hill

Here is a race report for first junior series race which was held yesterday at Bird's Hill Park. The weather was a cold 12°C and a bit of a wind. The water was 13.5°C which made it wetsuit mandatory swim. The guys race started at 8:00 the start was pretty close together which made for a pretty rough start. Mark and Josh were the first ones out of the water. Mark made the first pack but Josh just missed it. Trevor was in the pack just behind Josh and Riley was in the next one. Mark's pack caught the three leaders from the swim and other then that every stayed in their packs and remained about the same time differences. Onto the run Mark had a great run and ran into 3rd place overall (2nd Junior), Josh was 17th Junior, Riley was 18th and Trevor was 21st. The girls race started at 8:05. Sarah-anne and Stevie were out of the water together and managed to catch the lead girls before the end of the first lap on the bike. Racheal came out of the water a little bit further back and was in the chase pack on the bike. Unforunantly, Marita got sick during the swim and was unable to complete the race. Sarah-anne ended up 3rd overall, Stevie was 7th overall (5th junior), and Racheal was 9th overall (6th junior). Congratulations to Mark for breaking up the BC sweep in the medals. Thank-you to Mrs. Okany and the Triple Threat Triathlon Team for putting on a great race! as well as thank-you to all the volunteers and anyone else who helped out in anyway for making this race a success!

The results are found here.