Big PRs in Florida

On February 13th in Coconut Creek, Florida, 7 of our TEAM members competed at the USA Pan Am Racewalk Cup Trials. For the Americans,they were trying to capture a top 4 finish for the seniors and a top 3 finish for the juniors to qualify to compete for the USA at the Pan Am Racewalk Cup in Colombia on March 26-27th.



Senior Men's Recap

Trevor was the only TEAM member to compete over 20km's. He started off in the pack with Patrick Stroupe, John Nunn and fellow TEAM member Tyler Sorensen (who was racing 10k). He was in contact with them until around 6 or 7k when Trevor and Tyler picked up the pace. At 12k Trevor started to have chest pains and had to stop for about a minute since it gave him a bit of a scare. He then decided to start up again but couldnt push to his full potential because of the pains. Trevor ended up winning the race narrowly ahead of Patrick in a time of 1:27:32 (his 2nd best 20km time ever).

Senior Women's Recap

We had Maria and Rachel in this race. The gun went off and both women went out with Teresa. Starting off the first KM a little bit too fast in 4:38, both women decided to just go with the pace and see what would happen. All three women were together until 12k when the pace had started to slow and Maria decided to take off. Teresa dropped out by 14km's and Rachel slowed down due to fatigue from travelling (she had flown 9,500 miles the 15 days before the race). Maria went on to dominate the race and won in a time of 1:36:30 which is the Olympic B standard and a PR by a minute and 50 seconds. Rachel finished 2nd overall in a time of 1:40:03.

Junior Men's Recap

Tyler was the lone TEAM member in this race and he dominated it. He went out with the 20k leaders and stayed with them through 8k when he then decided to push the pace for the last lap and finished in an amazing time of 42:54 which is a new American Junior Record for 10km's on the road. It is also a PR by just over a minute.

Junior Women's Recap

Nicolette was the only girl for the TEAM in this event. She started off the race with fellow TEAMmate Rachel Zoyhofski (Little Rachel) and then pushed the pace herself after halfway. She went on to place 2nd and had over a minute PR of 54:07.

Open Women's 10km Recap

We had both Katie and Little Rachel in this event. Both were hoping to set big PRs. Both ladies went out smart. Katie walked alone for most of the race and Little Rachel started off with Nicolette. Katie went on to walk a huge 2 minute and 20 second PR to walk 51:55 to win the race. Little Rachel had a bit of a rough day and finished in 56:50 to place 2nd.

Overall we had 4 TEAM members qualify for the USA team that will compete in Colombia. Trevor and Tyler will race the Junior men's 10km, Nicolette will race the Junior women's 10km and Maria will race the Senior women's 20km. Trevor is already over in Colombia getting a good month of altitude training before the race and Maria will head over there 2 weeks before the race to get acclimated. We wish them all good
luck!

Stay tuned!

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