Great job to everyone who raced this past weekend in the Auburn and Uvas Triathlons and the Auburn Duathlon! We can now call Shelby Golan (our teen phenom) a National Champion! She earned it on Sunday by winning her age group and placing 3rd overall at the Auburn Long Course Duathlon National Championship race! The distances were 3k run/56 mile bike/13.1 mile run. Way to go Shelby! Congrats! It was flipping HOT in Auburn too! 107 degree's when we left at 3:30pm. Oh yea and there are a few hills in Auburn too! The Auburn Triathlon results are at:

Auburn - http://www.capitalroadrace.com/results08.html
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Some of the highlights from Auburn are:

Auburn International Duathlon - May 18th, 2008

Shelby Golan - 3rd Overall/1st Age Group!!! National Champion!!! Awesome job Shelby!!
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Auburn Olympic Distance - 1.5K swim/40K bike/10K run

Coach Kain - 3rd Overall/1st Age Group (he was awarded 1st overall due to the West Coast Collegiate Championship race took the college guys out of the overall results)

Carol Fredrickson - 1st Age Group!!! Nice!

Johnny Cerrito - 3rd Age Group!! What hills?

Greg Roussel - 7th Age Group!
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Auburn Half Ironman Triathlon (formerly The World's Toughest Half) -

Linda Raposelli (Shari's Sis) - 1st Age Group! Way to go Linda!

Tony Jager - 2nd Age Group!! New PR in the heat! Nice work Tony!

Ben Goldman - 4th Age Group!! Great job Ben!

Aron Cooperman - 5th Age Group!! Awesome run! 1:46 in the 100 degree heat!
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Kain Performance also had some great performances at the Uvas Triathlon down in Morgan Hill. Check the results at:

UVAS - http://www.athleteslounge.com/results/event/2274/results.php
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Here are some highlights from the Uvas Triathlon on Sunday, May 18th, 2008:

Ryan Reed - 2nd Age Group - by .5 seconds! Nice work Ryan!

Erik Garcia - 4th Age Group - Took 10 minutes off 2007 time! Nice work!

Debbie Issacson - 1st Age Group! Fresh off IM Arizona!

Kim Hammett - 3rd Age Group - even with swimming without a wetsuit!

Rob Dinapoli - 5th Age Group! Awesome!

Jason Wolf - 7th in the Age Group - Not bad after some IM training on Saturday!

Nelson Hom - 1st in the Unknown Age Category! Nice work Nelson! How'd you forget your age???

Also in the top 20 in thier age groups were:
Don Barry
Tony Benassi - New PR!
Steven Aurouseau - New PR on bike!

Sorry if we missed anyone else on the podium, or having stellar days out there! Thanks to everyone who went out and represented Kain Performance! You are all winners in our book!