I just wanted to take a quick moment to congratulate Tony White on an amazing year! He finished up his race season this past Saturday at the 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater, FL. He was 2nd amateur overall, and 2nd is his age group with a time of 3:54:24. His swim split was 25:18, his bike split was 2:06:38 (fastest amateur bike split), and his run split was 1:18:03 (5:57 pace and 5th fastest amateur split). When you throw Tony is with the pros, he was able to hammer to a 24th place overall, not too bad for his first official 70.3 race (since the swim at Steelhead was cancelled). It was truly amazing to watch him race, and I am very proud of his accomplishments this year. It was due to all of his hard work and dedication to the sport. Tony will now apply for his pro card and next year he will be racing as a pro, hopefully doing such races as St. Anthony’s, 70.3 Ironman Kansas, Memphis in May, Pro Nationals, Steelhead 70.3, some ITU races, and hopefully 70.3 World Championships next November. I was so lucky that I was able to be at the race this past weekend and cheer him on during the race. Now it is time for Tony to take some R and R! I can’t wait to see what he can do next year! I also wanted to says congrats to Jeff Buhr for an outstanding race! He dropped eight minutes off of his previous best time and had a great race! I am glad that I was there to witness a great performance.
Thanks for reading…Beth
Tony
