Tennessee Tri Buzz

Last Weekend - Races headed on out to Paris, TN to compete in the Paris Landing Sprint Triathlon put on by Start2Finish Event Management. This is a great mid-season sprint that you should consider adding to your 2019 schedule. This Weekend - It seemed like everyone we follow was headed to Music City for the 40th running of the Music City Triathlon. This is always a great race. For the sprint race we saw Derek Stone and Coach Goeringer duke it out all the way to the finish with our TennTriBuzz #2 ( click here ) winning by 7 seconds! Makena Gates dominated the women's field and most of the men's as well. For the olympic race, EMJ member wins again by almost 2 minutes while two of our top women, Kirsten Sass and Emily Rollins battled for their overall.

We have spent the last 3 weeks combing through 5,276 race results to bring you our mid-season Age Group Rankings update. We do this every year for fun, motivation, bragging rights with your training buddies, and encouragement to get out and race local and race often! Please share with your friends, tri club, and others on the list. Just a few stats from our halfway point: 22 races from April through June 5,276 race finishers (62% men, 38% women) Largest Race: Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga (Chatt Waterfront 2nd) Smallest Race: Hammer Olympic Frequent Racer Award: Norman Cole (8 Races!) Most Frequent Triathlon First Name: John (81 racers) Closest Battle for 1st: Men's 35-39 separated by 0.01% Women's Overall Podium Men's Overall Podium CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL RESULTS

Right before the holiday we had the 23rd race on our 2018 Race Calendar and we saw a lot of familiar names on the start list. The Women's race was dominated by the 16 year-old Evan Elizabeth Welch, who took 3rd OVERALL and won the Women's race by 4 minutes! On the Men's side, Will Gates had a flat in T1 but he was able to run down Derek Tingle to take the win. Great job guys. Below are the complete results: