Curious was some past greats are doing now… Rob Mackle Kristian Hansen Wolfgang Dittrich Lisa Laiti Ray Browning Jeff Devlin Donna Peters Spencer Smith???
Just some of the names that come to mind.
Most of 'em are coaches and trainers now. Devlin runs his own online service, and I think Browning does, too.
Tony
Spencer Smith signed up for IMCDA & Half Iron Florida(?)
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Rob Mackle: runs an outfit called “cobs homes” www.cobshomes.com, out of oceanside, partnering with chip martocchia, who’s married to katie webb (there’s three ex pros for the price of one).
Kristian Hansen: don’t know this person. but kirsten hansen becamse kirsten hansen-ames, and may still live in the rockies.
wolfgang dittrich: married, lives in boulder. does camps? masters swim coach?
lisa laiti: lives with husband simon lessing and their child (daughter?) in boulder
ray browning: lives in nederland, colorado
jeff devlin: believe he still coaches a rather large crowd of athletes in pennsylvania
donna peters: always had a high powered day job, like as an engineer or something, in metro seattle. as far as i know, still there.
spencer: lives with wife melissa in, i think, new jersey. may still maintain a second home in spain. is still a triathlete, as far as i know.
anybody knows what Andreas Niedrig is doing? Still racing?
<< but kirsten hansen becamse kirsten hansen-ames, and may still live in the rockies.
I saw Kirsten about 5 years ago at the finish line of RAAM in Pensacola Florida, she was working for the company that puts on RAAM at that time, don’t know if she still works for them now though as that was quite a while ago.
<< Rob Mackle: runs an outfit called “cobs homes” www.cobshomes.com, out of oceanside, partnering with chip martocchia, who’s married to katie webb (there’s three ex pros for the price of one).
weren’t Ray Browning and Katie Webb an item for a long time?
**wolfgang dittrich: married, lives in boulder. does camps? masters swim coach? **
He’s the guy I feel the saddest over. At the height of his strength and racing prime, goes in for some very minor knee surgery and develops a staph infection in the knee which eats away at his cartilage. He was never the same after that, and always ate it on the run, for obvious reasons.
Tony
K. Hansen-Ames: ran into her on a “Pedal the Peaks” ride in NM a few years back…still tough as nails. She and husband have a storage-unit business in CO as I recall.
Wolfgang Dittrich- what a HERO…had my picture w/ Wolfie at Kona 2003. He was working for MarkAllen.com
I would have to rate Lisa Laiti as one of the best looking pro triathletes ever.
Wolfgang is an awesome swim coach (among other things) in Boulder
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he will be racing this year in Roth, after he couldn’t compete last year
it will probably be his last race
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“weren’t Ray Browning and Katie Webb an item for a long time?”
yes. katie married chip, and they lived out on coral gables or some such place for a coupla years. then moved back. rob worked for peter degeorge, and i believe chip did too. when peter went belly up rob basically said, “i can do this,” and went out with chip on his own. i believe they’ve been quite successfull.
ray, i believe ray’s been married a good long time now. nederland is just up the hill about 3000’ in elevation above boulder.