(new pics added as of 7/28)

What an awesome weekend for West Siders!

To start off…on Saturday three of the West Side Warrior Women went up to the Canadian border for an open water event nicknamed the “Kingdom Swim”. Coach Ellen, LT and Kim participated in this inaugural event. Coach Ellen and Lynn swam the 10 mile and Kim swam the 3 mile. Coach Ellen got 4th overall (out of 36) and 3rd overall for non-wetsuits with a time of 4:30.10. Lynn swam a 5:21.57, non-wet suited, and placed 8th. Kim swam a 1:32.41 to get 3rd place for non-wet suited and 12th overall out of the 3 milers (of which there were 38). This was a very difficult open water swim given the head current coming home and the 3 mile stretch on the back half with no markers. Simply bad ass swimming…

On Sunday the West Side Men performed with top notch results at the Lake Placid Ironman. Gary, Ted and Matt went up and it was clear that the time spent in the water paid off. Gary went 10:39.28 (1:05.23 Swim/145th overall/27th in age group) just beating out Ted who went 10:41.27 (1:04.41 Swim/152nd overall/36th in age group). Matt went 14:02:06 (1:09.41 Swim/1444th overall/168th in age group) for his FIRST Ironman. Great stuff Men!

Over at the Marlborough Tri, Matt Nuffort took home 6th place with a 1:07.00 and Steve aka Juice, took 10th place with a 1:10.23. Great job guys!

And last but certainly not least…Elaine left on Saturday for her English Channel swim. We wish her the best of luck!!! You can follow her progress here…we are not sure which day she is going off because it requires very excellent timing but when she does, we will update here.

Pics from Memphre…