[Photo: Carmen & Noah Morrison with Turkey and cousin Chris.] Great job to all of our members who supported their local Turkey Trot here in the Bay Area or back “home” wherever that may be. Some volunteered. Others ran or walked from start to the finish. Distances ranged from 5Ks all the way up to half marathons. Special kudos to East Bay members Carmen and Noah Morrison (pictured above) who ran the Quarry Lakes Turkey Trot 5K down in ... Read More »

[Photo: PacWest Member, Geoff Turner (2nd from right), with his CAF teammates.] Congratulations to all of our PacWest members who participated in the very unique and challenging, Urbanathlon presented by Men’s Health Magazine, in downtown San Francisco on Sunday. From what we’ve heard, we had three of our studly CAF-PacWest members, Creighton Wong, Geoff Turner and Alan Shanken, successfully navigate the challenging course. The ... Read More »

[Photo (l to r) Team PacWest/Team USA - Jay Ridgeway, Peter Mendes, Brian August, Ricardo Monroy, Niall Murray, Ritch Viola and Scott Robertson] Back in May, PacWest qualified seven (7) men at the Wildflower Long Course to represent Team USA for the 2011 ITU Long Distance World Championships in Las Vegas. Saturday, six (6) men competed amongst nearly 800 athletes from over 40 countries. We are proud to say that not only did they ... Read More »

  [Photo (l to r) Yinnie Lim, Trisha Hildreth and Nichole Herttua with Ryan Hall at the race expo.] BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our six (6) PacWest members who successfully conquered the 2011 New York City Marathon Sunday. We had some impressive performances including two first time marathoners – Nichole Herttua and Trisha Hildreth. Both ran strong and steady finishing in 4:30 and 4:31 respectively. Nice! We also had a HUGE 18 ... Read More »

[Photo: Monica Moreno] Fresh off of her impressive Top-20 age group finish at the 2011 Ironman World Championship last month, Monica Moreno, piggy backed off of her peak fitness and crushed the flat but windy course at Ironman Florida in Panama City Beach Saturday. Monica was the 7th overall female with a time of 10:28:44. She was 2nd in her age group (F40-44) and earned PacWest’s first coveted Kona slot for the 2012 Ironman World Championship next ... Read More »