Who Are the Women?

As I said in my first post there are 5 other women besides me who qualified for Australia this year. First is Margaret Bomberg who has been a member of the tri club as long as I have and has already competed in two other world championships. She is now competing in the 70-75 age group and continues to be an inspiration to us all. Then there is Maryann Bachus who has also competed in a world championship. She has grown incredibly as an athlete over the last few years. She is competing in the 60-65 age group. Next is Susan Clavey who is competing in the 65-70 age group. She has also come a long way as an athlete and inspires us "youngsters" to keep going. The next two are my competetion in my age group 50-55...me being the youngest of the group! They are Teresa Kludt and Elizabeth Brent both incredibly tough women and difficult to beat. I have to run my hardest to get by Teresa...she really makes me work hard and I both curse and bless her for that!!

So as you can we are a group of mature women who enjoy training and pushing ourselves and each other to be the best we can be. We as a group have shattered some of the myths of old age and what women can accomplish. And we are just the ones going to worlds at the moment....the tri group has many more accomplished women in these age groups which will be the subject of my next post.....until then!