Houston Running: Jessica Alexander Takes On Couples Triathlon

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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Jessica Alexander Takes On Couples Triathlon

After running the Toughest 10K in Texas in Lampasas Saturday morning, I had the opportunity on Sunday morning to watch one of our original Houston Running Bloggers and '09 TIR teammate Jessica Alexander participate in the Couples Triathlon here in Austin.

Jessica, 28, teamed up with 33-year-old J Matthew Danner, who was competing in his first triathlon ever! Their Friends - Mixed Division team name was "Ain't Scared '08".

No, I don't think anything has ever really scared Jessica athletically - or at least since I've known her. :)

Jessica's time on the 800-meter lake swim, 14-mile bike and 5-kilometer trail run course was 1:42:59.56 -- good for 547th out of 827 finishers. She'll be the first to admit that her weakest discipline of the three is the swim, while the strongest is the run. The results proved that too!

She was 777th in the swim (32:14.11), but 256th on the run (in 25:59.65 for an 8:23/pace).

J Matthew finished today's triathlon in 1:58:35.21. He finished this year's AT&T Austin Marathon in 4:24:28.

Jessica makes the last right hand turn before the uphill going back in to the bike transition area.

Jessica during the first half mile of the 5-kilometer trail run. (The photographer was shooting through a fence.)

Jessica's trademark (post-race) pose!

3 Comments:

Jessica, a Austin Runner AND triathlete said...: thanks for all the love, Jon! It was great to have a familar face, this was the most fun tri yet for me since being in Austin! hope to see you next month!

-Jessica; 9:10 PM
Tiggs said...: love it!; 11:06 AM
Woodlands Runner said...: Man, looks like she's not even sweating!; 2:00 PM