2017 70.3 Steelhead Welcome and Introductory Thread

Brenda Ross

Welcome to the 70.3 Steelhead Sign In Thread!

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to your fellow teammates, telling us a little bit about you, your goals for the race, etc! and .


The list of athletes we have racing so far is below. If you don’t see your name here, please submit your Triathlon Season RoadMap™ to update your information. If your name is there and you are not racing, please let us know below. 


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Athletes Listed as racing as of May 8/2017

Yvette Metz

Tom Meehan

Scott Liston

Rodney Daulton

Larry Peters

Josh Dutton

Stephen Olds

John Wolfe

Scott Liston

Yep, Still planning on racing Steelhead.  Need to sign up before the price increase this weekend.  I'll also be doing Muncie on July 8th.  Anyone else doing Muncie?  Scott

Larry Peters

Hi all, yes, I plan to do Steelhead. Like Scott, I need to sign up before this weekend to avoid the price increase. This will be my first 70.3 and I am really excited!

Goals? 1) Complete my first 70.3 . 2) In 2010, when I was last racing and training regularly, I set a goal of breaking 5 hours in a 70.3 based on going ~2:14 in an Olympic tri and the fact that one of my friends said he broke 5 hours in a 70.3. But, I only just started seriously running again ~July 2016 and started regularly biking and swimming again in March 2017. So I'm not sure if that 5 hour goal is realistic this year. But we'll see how training goes....

Other important races on my schedule:
Grand Rapids Riverbank Run 25k 5/13/17 (tomorrow!)
Grand Rapids Olympic Tri 6/11
Great Lakes Relay 7/14-7/16 (3 day running relay)
Chicago marathon 10/8

I look forward to e-training and racing with you guys!

Does anyone else live in West Michigan? If so, let me know if you want to meet up for an open water swim. I have a swim buoy, but I should probably swim with a partner more often for safety sake.

Thanks!
-(Larry) Rob Peters

Carol DeFazio

Hi all!   Turby and I are "racing" Steelhead 70.3 this year!  I quote "racing" because this is more or less going to be for fun.  Former ENers Ken Cestari and Pam Allen our doing it with Ken's son, Steve, who lives in Michigan, so we decided to join them.  This will be Steve's first half ironman.  I took a huge break after Kona and am trying to get back some semblance of fitness.  Finally I'm able to swim after 7 months off with a shoulder injury.  Turby is in pretty good shape and has pretty much recovered from his hip/hamstring injury that plagued him for over a year.  It should be lots of fun and we are looking forward to seeing our EN team out there!

Laura Searle

I am "racing" this too! I'll update my race page. I have done a few short triathlons (I was a sprint swimmer) but it's on my bucket list to do a HIM. I'm going to give it my best shot!

Laura Searle

@Brenda Ross I can't figure out how to submit my season roadmap. I was thinking about Michigan Titanium but decided not to try a full IM for my first "long" tri....

Brenda Ross

@Laura Searle - go to the dashboard, click on drop down menu with heading Training Plan, select My Season Go down page and select Start New Road Map.  

Laura Searle

@Brenda Ross Thanks! I got it....

Yvette Metz

Hi all! I'm doing Steelhead as well. In addition, we have a wedding same day same location. Looks like I need to be finished by 2PM. Lol! Just going late. 

Chris Ciannella

I'm in too

Dawn Cass

I'm in again for Steelhead 2017 

Larry Peters

Hey Steelhead group! Final race rehearsal weekend! Fire up!!

Rodney Daulton

Got the Big Day done, two more weeks then a few vacation days for the rest of the week. Good luck everyone!!