Across the USA - Over 1 million pedal strokes in 42 days - congratulations Ken Nickerson!

A huge congratulations goes out to Ken Nickerson for completing the Trek Cross Country USA Bike Tour!  From Ken's Blog..."If I include my rest day rides and the initial rides in Santa Barbara, I rode 3570 miles in 220 hours at an average speed of 16.2 mph. (I am a numbers guy, so I record these things.) Since my average cadence is just about 80 rpm, that means I likely pedaled slightly over 1 million strokes."  WOW!

Ken Nickerson Crushes 400K Brevet in Record Time

Ken Nickerson set out on his first Brevet (Boston 400k, New England Randonneurs) on June 8th 2019.  He wasn't exactly sure what to expect and was planning to take it at a comfortable pace to finish in under 20 hours.  Then he found himself in the front group of 5 riders moving along at what felt like an OK pace.  He explained to his Coach, Karen Mackin, that it was just a little faster than he had planned, but it was nicer to ride with the group than solo.  So he went along with them... ALL the way to the finish!  He said, "Somehow I was able to stay with the fastest 5 other riders. My legs were shaking at the end and I could barely stand, but I managed not to get dropped."  The group set a course record of 13:50 hours!  What a ride!

Laura Conway gets Silver at Harvest Olympic Triathlon

Congratulations to Laura Conway for her 2nd Place Age Group finish at the Harvest Olympic Triathlon in Wareham, MA on June 8th, 2019.  Laura did a great job on a steady lower variability bike split (1.04!).  This helped her to give a great strong final push in the run. Way to go Laura!

Bruce Rychlik's Fantastic CX Season Wrap up

Bruce Rychlik just wrapped up a fantastic cyclocross season finishing it off by meeting his goal of sub 400 points on crossresults.com!  The season was a great progression of decreasing points as was the year as a whole...See image of yearly progression.  As it turned out he finished with a score of 388 points!  Congratulations Bruce!

Laura Conway has a winning season wrap up

This Fall Laura Conway has wrapped up her multi-sport season with some fantastic results!
1. Second place Age Group at the Pumpkinman Olympic Distance Triathlon Festival
2. 1st place overall masters team at Ragnar Reach the Beach (joined Coach Karen Mackin's Mixed Super masters Team).  This was quite a team accomplishment as the teams average age was 52yrs old, the team is Coed, AND the team beat ALL teams over 40yrs old, including the 40+ men's teams).
3. 1st Place Age Group at Powisset Farm 8.3 mile trail running race.  This was a tough race and Laura used her Stryd power meter to keep her pacing spot helping her to podium!

Finally, and probably most importantly, Laura Conway has moved up again in her USA Triathlon annual rankings.  She has continued a fantastic 3 year sequence of improvement.  In looking at the results, she is exited for next year and has set a goal to for All-American recognition next year!

2018 age 41 (40-44yrs) overall score 80.427, women’s overall 88.469: 

            4^th Massachusetts (of 37), 15^th North East (of 106),  140 National (of 1,090)

2017 age 40 (40-44yrs) overall score 77.423, women’s overall 85.166: 

            12^th Massachusetts, 47^th North East, 317 National

2016 age 39 (35-39yrs) overall score 71.591, women’s overall 78.75: 

            27^th Massachusetts, 79^th North East, 656 National

Congratulations to Laura Conway for a winning year!

Bill Sheahan has a Breakthrough Ironman at Mont Tremblant

On Sunday, Aug 19, 2018 Bill Sheahan finished his 7th Ironman with PR's across the board (personal records for swim, T1, bike, T2, and run!).  It was an overall 52 minute personal best Ironman time and 55 minutes faster on the same course (Mont Tremblant). Karen Mackin, his Peaks Coaching Group Coach and Bill worked out a race plan using Power on both the bike and the Run. This was the first year of pacing the run using his Stryd Power meter and Bill felt like it was definitely helpful. He said "I just went with the power numbers!" even when the pace might have told him otherwise, he knew in the long run sticking to the power plan would pay off.  And it really did!  Congratulations Bill for the Best Ironman Ever!

Laura Conway takes Gold at Boston Sprint Triathlon

The weather was not cooperating on the morning of Sunday, July 22, 2018.  The Boston Triathlon race directors made a safety call to turn the Triathlon into a Duathlon in the Run-Bike-Run format.  Laura Conway took on the challenge and finished first in her Age Group!  Congratulations Laura!