She competed in her third Seattle Danskin Triathalon Sunday
and finished in a time of 1:36:26.
That was good enough to be in the top 12-percent of the field
(a total of 3,317 finished the race) placing 399th overall and 28th
in her age division (you can ask her yourself what one that was).
And all but one of the women in front of her in the division were younger!
(left) Julie and Heidi Zylstra get their bikes racked on Saturday
afternoon. Sunday morning at 6:50 AM, Julie (right) hits the water to
get ready for the start of the event.
The ladies go off in waves of roughly 100 - and only set apart
by the color of their caps. This is Julie's group getting the final
pep-talk and then taking off (this always reminds me of the
National Geographic documentaries on pirahnas) on their 800-yard
swim leg.
Out of the water and finished with the first leg, in a time of
18:17, Julie takes a 4:12 transition to get semi dried off and bikes shoes
on then it's on to the bike ride - a 12.1 mile trek down Lake
Washington Blvd, onto the I-90 bridge, a ways into Mercer
Island and then back.
At this point she is still smiling (left) as she finished the bike
At this point she is still smiling (left) as she finished the bike
leg in a time of 42:47. Another transition of 2:24 (to get running
shoes on and some water) and she's off for the final leg - a 5K
run.
After another 28:44, she hits the finish line. Incredibly tired
but pretty satisfied that another triathalon is in the books.
The Seabeck team (Heidi Zylstra, Dawn Boyle, Mardell Ryan
and Julie) flash their smiles and their hardware!
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