Shelia is teaming up with Eva Soloman and their new EST Events to bring a women only event in June along with two other events and clinics to SE Michigan.
from Sheila’s comments on the EST site:
“I just finished a career as a professional athlete, and now I get to do the other things I have waited to do in life, one of those things being to help people smile”.
very cool.
Sheila was the guest speaker twice at Team Toledo Triathlon Club’s annual winter dinner. She is a great motivational speaker. I also had the chance to participate in a swim clinic she conducted with the Team Toledo Triathlon club. It’s great knowing she will continue to be involved in the sport of triathlon.
Very cool indeed.
I’m helping her with all three of 2009 races - but my pet project is the Battle of Waterloo (which I predict, because the course is so cool, will eventually be nicknamed BOW WOW!). The race (on August 16) will be a ten-leg tour of the Waterloo Recreation area, which is this amazing park in southeastern Michigan with 20,000 acres of forest and glacial morraine, 16 lakes, and over 100 miles of trail. Our orienteering club has four different maps scattered throughout this complex and testing terrain.
Along the way, you’ll bike twice (27 miles total), run five times (for 14 miles), and swim across three of the prettiest lakes along the way (1.4 miles in the water). There will be two different bike transitions, but legs 3-8 comprise a run-swim-run-swim-run-swim loop through the woods - and ala SOS, you will have to carry your swim and run gear with you. How you DO that is left to your ingenuity.
I saw the BoW on the web site and it looked pretty cool.
I take it Sheila is back in MI?
Yes. She’s usually at our Tuesday morning track workouts - U of M indoor track until the weather breaks, then the outdoor oval. Do I remember correctly that you are working in Ann Arbor nowadays?
Hello Lew,
Say Hi to Sheila and Karen for me. The BOW WOW sounds like enough fun to make a trip up from Atlanta for. Make one bike leg mountain biking and you’ve got yerself a deal ;-).
Shawn Tyrrell
I was working in AA, but now I am in Dearborn. Tell her I said hello.
She is one of my sports heros. I wish I lived closer to Michigan, I’d do her race in a heartbeat.
Swapping Atlanta for Ferndale? Hope you got a couple of high draft picks to take up the slack. Considered a mountain bike leg - but asking people to bring TWO bikes just seemed a little over the top.
It would certainly keep it somewhat local if you needed both (or one cross bike).
This race reminded me of a race I once heard of (don’t remember the name). It was point to point in really rugged mountainous terrain. Some lakes rivers, roads and trails in between the start finish. You were allowed to get from A to B by any route you choose and use any human powered locomotion you want. Swim bike run kayak, fins rolerblades, etc. No motors, but the catch was you had to start and finish with everything you used. The correct option depended on your skill and the particular weather for the year. One year a guy shows up with a huge backpack. The race starts and he goes backwards. Proceeds to climb a mountain and put together a hang glider. Un fortunately the widdied and he landed quite few miles short and got passed at the end lugging the hang glider.
No real point to this story but your race reminded me of it.
Styrrell
bump to note that my podcast with Sheila is now up at michigantri.com
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