Race in Review: XTERRA Pagosa Springs

Despite a rainy, damp week leading up to the event, Sunday Sept 15th was a pearler of a day for the inaugural XTERRA Pagosa Springs. Not too hot, not too cold, just right. It was fun to be part of history in the making - there'll never be another first XTERRA Pagosa Springs. First ever swim in Lake Pagosa (or any of the lakes for that matter!); first ever XTERRA and first ever off-road triathlon!

We are proud to share that we had a professional photographer at XTERRA Pagosa Springs, snapping happy action shots of you all day!

Thanks to Trent Bona Photography, we've posted some incredible photos of the race on our Facebook page. Please LIKE the page, check out the Album, TAG yourself and your friends and SHARE the love!

There are also Facebook Albums posted by Melissa Webber, Stephen & Randi Durham, Joanne Irons and Teal Noelle (our GOAL Academy student entered into the Photo contest)...so many memories of the event!

Read follow up stories in the media: Pagosa Springs Sun

http://www.pagosasun.com/pros-battle-it-out-at-xterra-pagosa-springs/

http://www.pagosasun.com/cards-of-thanks-40/

Winners are Grinners:

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Congratulations to our XTERRA sponsored prize draw winners:

285 Jenny Ploss wins the XTERRA WETSUITS Vortex Sleeveless Wetsuit!

296 Ambrose Teasyatwho wins XX2i Optics Sunglass or Polarized Reader

251 Hailey Fortin wins a Rudy Project Gift (choose from their gift catalogue range)

Hooray!

RESULTS HIGHLIGHTS

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A full list of RESULTS can be found on our website here.

Honors for the top spot was a dual between Jason Michalak of Crested Butte and Joshua Merrick of Alamosa, Jason taking it out the win 6 minutes ahead of Joshua in a combined time of 2 hours 11 minutes. Pete Mech and Logan Ot both from Durango, took out the top team spot in 2 hours 25 minutes and Shonny Vanlandingham crushed the women's field in 2 hours 27 minutes.

Medals and Trophies made by local artists Tessie Garcia and Scott Slind were awarded to finishers and winners!

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A sincere & heartfelt Thank You to our incredible volunteers and our SPONSORS - we couldn't function as we do without them!