Congratulations to Julie Knowles and Keith McDonald for their great performances at Ironman 70.3 Miami yesterday.
Julie wrapped up a great season of racing with an impressive 5:27:37 and a STRONG 9th place in her age group (F35-39). Top-10 Julie! Way to go!
Also racing with her was Coach Keith McDonald. This …

[Photo: Random event photo. No PacWest members.]
Congratulations to all of our members who raced the Wine Country Healdsburg Half Marathon Saturday morning. They had a gorgeous weather to race past miles and miles (13.1 miles to be precise) of beautiful vineyard after vineyard. Sadly, we never got a photo of …

2012 Team Application
Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 race teams (run & triathlon). Deadline for the triathlon race team is November 30th. The running race team deadline is December 31st. Thank you for applying.

PacWest’s young professional triathlete, Jordan Bethke, wrapped up his stellar 2011 race season with an outstanding performance at yesterday’s Ironman 70.3 Austin (TX). Jordan was the 12th overall male pro and the first collegiate undergrad to finish. Austin was the host to the 2011 Ironman 70.3 US Collegiate Championship therefore …

Congratulations to all of our ladies (and maybe a guy or two) who successfully completed the marathon or half on Sunday. Did you race but not tell us?
Unfortunately we are only aware of the below ladies who raced. Please let us know if you raced so we can add …

[Ritch Viola and David Condon waiting for their number markings before the race. Photo by Yi Hsueh.]
Here is a great post-Kona write-up by PacWest race team member, Ritch Viola, about teammate David Condon.  Enjoy.
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As I now look back on an amazing week in Kona, a few things I wanted …

[Mirek Boruta coming in to the finish of the 2011 Ironman World Championship. Photo by Yi Hsueh.]
For those of you who were able to track our athletes throughout the day on Saturday, you know that we had some absolutely amazing performances. This was truly impressive considering our team was up …

[Photo: Greg MacDonald racing in the Steamtown Marathon in Scranton, PA]
Congratulations to our RunPac members who raced in both the Chicago and Steamtown Marathons yesterday.
This year we had five (5) members race in the Chicago Marathon which is one of the largest marathons in the world with over 35,670 finishers …

[Photo (top l to r) Mirek Boruta, Jason Campbell, David Condon, Ritch Viola, Ricardo Monroy. (bottom l to r) Natalie Jackson, Anne Thilges, Monica Moreno.]
PacWest is excited and very proud to announce that PacWest Athletics will be strongly represented in tomorrow’s Ford Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Incredibly, we …

[Photo (l to r) Top row: Matthew Johnson, Leia Fazio, Amy Fields, Coach Jay Ridgeway, Rebecca Chatfield-Taylor, Diane Perun. Bottom row: Ollie Ralph, Folk Gottlob.]
Its hard to believe but PacWest Athletics returned for its sixth straight year (seemed just like yesterday!) of being the Official Pace Team for the Rock …