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Records Fall at New Bri...

Saturday, 03 June 2017 23:10

ED. Just got back from Buffalo. Awesome event! Too pooped to write today. Will post Buffalo coverage on Tuesday and Pigman on Wednesday.

Buffalo-  RESULTS - Pigman -  RESULTS

NEW BRI TRI - BRIAN SAMES and NICOLE HEINiNGER (photo) demonstrated mid-season fitness yesterday at the 11th edition of the New Nri Tri. Not only did they score wins for their respective genders, they both set course records.

Heiney was especially impressive. In fact, her effort may have been one of her top two or three performances ever. In a race that had only seen one sub-1:10 in its history, that being Hanna Grinaker's 1:07:34 set in 2016, Nicole appeared determined to change that from the get-go. A brisk swim, followed by her signature monster bike, delivered her to T2 in 2nd place overall. Ahead of her was Sames by a slender margin of 1:33.

As Brian charged on to a time of 1:00:13, a twenty second improvement on Devon Palmer's 2015 amateur men's course best, Heiney carried a strong  pace the rest of the way. Her finish time was 1:06:06, which took a voracious bite out of Grinaker's prior CR, and landed her in 4th place overall. Not only that, her margin of victory over the second place woman was the largest in event history.

Racing conditions were favorable (clear, high 70s, breezy) and it is likely that a few divisional records were reset.

Here are yesterday's Top 5 men and women, with notes:   ...

1. BRIAN SAMES - 1:00:13 - New amateur men's record. This is Brian's 2nd win of the season, and seventeenth of his young multisport career. (photo R)

2. PATRICK MARZOLF - 1:05:00 - Patrick was 6th here in 2016. He was 34-seconds faster this year. Do you know Patrick? He's a great guy!

3. EMMANUAL DARNE, 45 - 1:05:30 - Top master on Saturday.

4. NICOLE HEININGER - 1:06:06 - New women's course record. This was career win #11 for Heiney, who is incable of not smiling and has a really cool mother who goes to all of her races.

5.MICHAEL ROSSA - 1:08:19 - Michael placed 11th here in 2016. He's a microbiologist, you know.

WOMEN:

1. NICOLE HENINGER - 1:06:06 - See the other stuff we wrote about her above.

2. CATHERINE LEE, 43 - 1:13:12 - Catherine placed 8th here in 2016 when she was totally preggers.

3. KATHERINE LENGLET - 1:13:40 - She's off to great start in 2017: a 2nd (Oakdale), 3rd (New Bri) and a 5th (Falls Du).

4. KATHERINE JOHNSON - 1:14:17 - KJ placed 2nd at Cinco Du Mayo last month.

5. TONI NUGENT - 1:16:00 - Tori has cracked the Top 5 in each of her four starts thus far this season. She's a "toe runner," which is fun to watch.

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