Colorado age-group triathletes Craig Greenslit and
Shannon Kerth won the second annual 5430 Triathlon on Sunday at
Boulder
Reservoir.Greenslit, a 32-year-old from Longmont, covered the 2.4-mile
swim, 112-mile
bike and 26.2-mile run in 10:04:06, beating another Longmont
resident, Matt
Adams (10:34:40).
Kerth, who was ninth last year, finished in 11:16:06. She beat
her 2001 time
by more than an hour.
"Last year I had two flat tires on the bike, so I had a much
better race this
year," said Kerth, a 32-year-old mother of two from Highlands
Ranch.
Longmont's Lynn O'Donnell, 43, was the runner-up in 11:24:47.
Denver's Kirk Framke and Boulder's Beth Anderson were the
winners of the
inaugural 5430 half-distance event. Framke caught former Ironman
star
Wolfgang Dittrich of Boulder on the run to win in 4:11:26, while
Dittrich
finished second in 4:13:07.
Anderson, 25, finished in 4:42:40, beating Tracey Schefter of
Aurora,
Colorado, by six minutes.
Approximately 500 athletes competed in the full distance, half
distance and
relay at the Reservoir. The race was a benefit for the ALS
Association, the
national not-for-profit health organization dedicated to the
fight against
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).
For more information, go to www.5430tri.com.