Race Coverage

PP Brought the Fury...

Monday, 07 March 2011 04:00

By Coach Kris

Two high profile Minnesota athletes traveled to Clermont Florida this past weekend to participate in the draft legal race event at Lake Louisa hosted by Olympian Jarrod Shoemaker. Patrick Parish, 2010 US Sprint National Champion, and Kate Lowrey, 2010 US Youth National Points Champion, chose to take on the early season challenge, each with specific goals and objectives in mind.

Patrick participated in his first draft legal triathlon. His race was an open class, 75 person field of mainly division 1 collegiate swimmers and runners who had been recruited by Olympian Barb Lindquist to try triathlon. The objective was to try the draft legal format and also gun for the...

win. Patrick came out of the 750m swim about 60 seconds behind the leaders. Lake Louisa is extremely low at this time due to drought conditions in central Florida. This made for a long run in to the water and lots of dolphin diving. Patrick spent most of the bike in