2012 South West Challenge series year end results

The only race left that needs to be tallied for the 2012 South West Challenge Series year end results are the Cotton Country sprint triathlon. Rather than wait for the series point counter I looked up the Cotton Country sprint triathlon results and figured out who the winners for each division are on my own. I'm %90 certain these are correct. I listed some amazing performances for the 2012 South West Challenge series below, the SW series points are listed below that.

The Age Group that had that had the highest combined points total for the top 3 in their AG was the male 60-64 with 214 points between them. They finished 29 races between the top three!!!

The male 20-25 AG was the age group with the closest finish between the top 3 finishers, the top 3 were separated by only 2 points!

Sara Hall and Flip Lyle competed in the most SW series races with 14 races in 2012! Sara Hall also completed 12 races in 2011, 15 in 2010, 16 in 2009, and 8 in 2008 for a total of 65 races in 5 years!!!

Robert Browning had the highest points for the 2012 South West Challenge series with 80.75.

Scott Darling of the 60-64 AG had the most age group victories with 9 races finished in 1st place in his AG in 2012!

In 2012 Flip Lyle of the 65-69 male AG had the largest margin of victory with 33 points over 2nd place.

There are 3 athletes in the men 35-39 who are tied for third place with 48 points!

Below are the 2012 South West Challenge Series age group winners.
Clydesdale open division
Champion B. Laird 57 points
2nd place A Ceniceros 45 points
3rd placeJ Sanchez 41 points

Clydesdale masters division
Champion M. Mowles 79 points
2nd place J. McClure 54 points

Male 20 and under:
Champion Josh Gordon 69 points
2nd place- Ben Campbell- 68 points
3rd place- Alex Bradbury- 50 points

male 20-24
Champion William Kessler 31.5 points

male 25-29
Champion Michael Castaneda 49 points
2nd place Matt Gonzales 48 points
3rd place Gage Bonestroo 47 points

male 30-34
Champion Dustin Ward 65 points
2nd place- Randolph Knox 49 points
3rd place- Jason Atkinson 48 points

male 35-39
Champion Price Lawhon 65 points
2nd place- Cody Hanson 50 points
T- 3rd place- Matt Hall 48 points
T- 3rd place- Jeremy Harwood 48 points
T-3rd place Jan Grande 48 points

male 40-44
Champion R. Browning 80 points
2nd place A. Lugo 58 points
3rd place G. Heredia 51 points

male 45-49
Champion J. Kehrle 80 points
2nd place G. Garcia 68 points
3rd place S. Crane 64 points

male 50-54
Champion R. Reynold 68 points
2nd place B. Gonzales 60 points
3rd place G. Southard 56.25 points

male 55-59
Champion C. Armstrong 78.24
2nd place L. Barfield 72 points
3rd place J Jackson 71 points

male 60-64
Champion S. Darling 80 points
2nd place R. Wiggs 72 points
3rd place M. Strum 62 points

male 65-69
Champion F. Lyle 80 points (14 races)
2nd place G Sargent 47 points

male 70-74
Champion K. O'Connor 78 points
2nd place M. Greer 48 points

75+
Champion R. Park 70 points

Athena masters division
Champion S. Hall 76 points (14 races!!!)
2nd place P. Miller 35

Female 25-29
Champion A. Howell 45 points
2nd place I. Speer 41 points
3rd place A. Wagner 39 points

Female 30-34
Champion R Ruiz 57 points
2nd place S. Bailes 30 points

Female 35-39
Champion D. Sather 43 points

Female 40-44
Champion D. Steele 80 points
2nd place S Heredia 65 points

Female 45-49
Champion D. Steele 80 points
2nd place S. Heredia 65 points

Female 50-54
Champion K. Carlsen 70 points
2nd place H. Crane 67 points
3rd place S. Crewe 60.25 points

Female 55-59
Champion J. Herbert 50.25oints
2nd place P. Baker 50 points

Female 60-64
Champion M. Balsiger 47 points

Female 65-69
Champion C. Akright

South West Challenge series points almost totaled!

There's only 2 more races left to be tallied for the 2012 South West Challenge Series! The Elephant Man olympic triathlon and the Cotton Country triathlon. So far, with just 2 more races needed to be counted, there are seven triathletes in the 35-39 age group who are still in contention for the coveted top 3 awards in the South West!!!!

35-39 Age Group
58 points- Price Lawhon
49 points Cody Hanson
48 points- Jeremy Harwood
48 points- Jan Grande
46 points- Mathew Hall
44 points- Mike Edwards
38 points- Valentin Ramirez

I'm still 232 pounds and the first two races of the 2013 multisport season are only 7 weeks away so I'm certain I'll be racing in the Clydesdale open division next year. These are the top in the Clydesdale open division with 2 more races left to be tallied. This divisions year end points aren't nearly as close, but the athletes in contention are very fast.

Clydesdale open division:

57 points- Brett Laird
45 points- Arnold Ceniceros
35 points- Jeremy Sanchez
28 points- Martin Hedge

My daughter is only a few years away from competing in adults triathlons so I looked up their points totals for the season for the female 20 and under division and there isn't a single female under the age of 20 who completed the minimum 5 races to be eligible for awards in the South West Challenge series. Looks like my daughter will probably be able to take top 3 in the Female 20 at the age of 10 just by completing 5 races!!!!

2011 south west challenge series Award Winners

Below are the 2011 South West Challenge Series age group winners.

I listed some amazing performances for the 2011 South West Challenge series below:

The Age Group that had that had the highest combined points total was the Athena 40+ with 224.75 points between the top three finishers. They finished 35 races between the top three!!! This was also the age group with the closest finish between the top 3 finishers, the top 3 were separated by only 9.75 points! Way to race hard ladies!!

Jon Gardea competed in the most SW series races with an amazing 16 races in 2011! He also finished with the most total SW series points in 2011 with 81. He's finished 36 South West challenge series races in the last 3 years, and he's placed 1st or 2nd in his AG each of those 3 seasons. Talking about determination and some serious fortitude!!!!!

Jon Gardea & Sarah Crewe had the highest points for the 2012 South West Challenge series with 81.


Flip Lyle of the 65-69 AG had the most age group victories with 9 races finished in 1st place in his AG in 2011!

In 2011 Sarah Crewe of the 50-54 female AG had the largest margin of victory with 25 points over 2nd place and 35.25 points over 3rd place.




Name/ points

Clydesdales under 40
Andrwe Ducar- 47
Karl Thomas- 38

Clydesdales over 40
Jon Gardea- 81
Rob Lovett- 80.25
Adolf Sanchez- 33

Athena under 40
no qualifiers

Athena over 40
Tammy Atkinson-Dayley- 79.75
Sara Hall- 75
Patricia Miller- 70

male Under 20
Ben Campbell- 79.25
Josh Gordon- 64
Liam Browning- 42

Female under 20
no qualifiers

Male 20-24
Mathew Gonzales- 64
Rance Irvin- 60
Xavier Nolen- 54

Female 20-24
no qualifiers

male 25-29
Randy Arriola- 70
Chris Werth- 69
Michael Casteneda- 38

Female 25-29
Stephanie Gates- 50
Lauren Thompson- 50

Male 30-34
Greg Gonzoles- 70.75
Jeremy Harwood- 50
Justin Newcomer- 46

Female 30-34
Terry Moore- 57
Kristin Moriarty- 56
Sarah Lough- 46

Male 35-39
Robert Vandivort- 76.25
Marty Moriarty- 71.25
Cody Hanson- 56.5

Female 35-39
Trisha Stavinoha- 50
Amy Lee- 38
Sanna Sevanta- 38

male 40-44
Robert Browning- 79.25
James Kehrle- 70
Clay Moseley- 59

female 40-44
Miki Matsuo- 39
Erin Levick- 28
Valerie Starracino- 18

male 45-49
Gregory Garcia- 74
Pat Brug- 69
Stuart Crane- 48

female 45-49
Gretchen McElroy- 65.25
Michele Sanchez- 52
Grace Duffy- 50.75

Male 50-54
Bobby Dominguez- 65
Bobby Gonzales- 60
Greg Southard- 53.25

female 50-54
Sarah Crewe- 81
Treca Boney- 56
Noelle Sharp- 47

male 55-59
George Marck- 77
Scott Darling- 76
Gilbert Gil- 67

female 55-59
Linda Summers- 43

male 64-60
Ted Freedman- 59
Rodney Wigs- 52
Mike Strun- 43

female 64-60
Christina Glidden- 75
Carol Akright- 67
Kathy Foucar- 60

male 65-69
Flip Lyle- 80

female 65-69
no qualifiers

male 70-74
Kennith O'Connor- 78.25
Richard Park- 67

female 70-74
no qualifiers

male 75+
no qualifiers

female 75+
no qualifiers

SW challenge series points

I'd promised I'd post on my blog if there was any changes in the top 3 of the 35-39 age group of the South West Challenge series. Marty Moriarty has secured 2nd place in the series with an AMAZING performance last weekend at the Elephant Man Olympic distance triathlon. He finished in 25th place overall out of 280 athletes and teams and 1st place in his division of 12! In the series he now has 7 races and 63 points total. Before this season Marty was a pure cyclist, which made his triathlon accomplishments this year absolutely stunning! He finished the 1 mile swim in 30 minutes! That's fast. I've never completed an oly swim in 30 minutes before. It was no surprise at all that he had the 3rd fastest bike split out of 280 finishing the very hard 25 mile bike course with a 21.9 mph average! He finished the 10K run in 47:09 keeping a 7:49 pace. The Elephant Man run course is REALLY hard, so that kind of a pace from someone who had never practiced his running until this year is dang impressive. This guys a stud triathlete.

The 1st time I raced with Marty was at the Atomic Man triathlon earlier this year. Up until facing Marty I'd never finished outside of 1st placec in my division at that race. Here's a picture of Marty and I coming out of T-2. He's a few strides ahead of me:




Having Marty and Brooks Vandervort in my division is going to make me train harder and race faster or I may be in danger of never seeing another top 3 in the South West again!

There's 1 race remaining in the series but the top 3 has already been determined. They are as follows:

1st place Brooks Vandivort with 8 races & 76.25 points
2nd Marty Moriarty with 7 races and 63 points
3rd Cody Hanson with 10 races and 56.5 points

Next year I plan on going back to specializing in sprint distance triathlons so that I have a chance against these 2 power houses. I'm hoping I can get my wrecked and totaled triathlon bike replaced by then!

MVT triathlon

I'm registered for the MVT triathlon this weekend. I wasn't planning on doing this race, but I got an email that the awards ceremony for the SW Challenge series will be held after the MVT triathlon. I took 1st place in the SW Challenge series AG 35-39 last year, so I can't miss that!

This years MVT triathlon is in the same area, & is the same distances as the MVTC triathlon, just a different (& better) Race Director. The old RD's retired. I've done this race 3 times before, I got flats 2 of the 3 times I've raced this event. The one year I didn't get a flat was 2006, I PR'd the course that year with a time of 1:36:03. Even though I'm still out of shape & over weight from my off season I'm relatively certain I'll break my MVT course PR this year. In 2006 I ran a 5K averaging an 8:08 pace, which was dang good considering the course & how much I weighed at the time. My bike & swim splits that year were ridiculous. I was surprised to remember how slow of a cyclist & swimmer I was in 2006! I'll post my race report as soon as I can!