IRONMAN Alaska was August 7th and appears to have been an epic location for in IRONMAN. We have the race director Dave Christen and a local athlete and coach Dave Sheanan who raced the event. We are excited to share both perspectives today.
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In Today's Show
Feature Interview: IM AK with Dave Christen and Dave Sheanin
Dave Sheanin is an assistant head coach for the CU Triathlon team and a coach with D3 Multisport. He also pulls physically challenged athletes. Dave Sheanin is originally from Woodland Hills, CA and lives in Erie, CO currently. He studied: Psychology at UC-Irvine (go anteaters!) and MBA at CU-Boulder.
Favorite Triathlon Discipline: Swim for sure. Love the water but it's a curse--no one wins a tri in the swim, but I'm willing to keep trying. Leadership | colorado-tri-copy (cutriathlon.com)
Dave Christen is a Regional Directory for IRONMAN Group. He has been in the endurance sport and event production world since 2008, was the Race Director for IRONMAN Boulder and is one of the driving forces behind IRONMAN AK.
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Endurance News:
Alaska’s first Ironman triathlon is held in Juneau
By Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO - Juneau -August 9, 2022
Sunday’s race in Juneau was the first Ironman triathlon in Alaska. More than 700 athletes finished the race.
The first across the finish line was Alex Whetman of Riverton, Utah. It took him 9 hours, 11 minutes, 17 seconds to swim 1.2 miles in Auke Lake, bike 112 miles on Glacier Highway and run a full 26-mile marathon through the Mendenhall Valley.
Liz Cullen of Gibson, British Columbia, was the top female finisher with a time of 10 hours, 23 minutes, 3 seconds.
The first person from Juneau to finish was Will Coleman, who was 14th overall. Beth Gollin was Juneau’s first female finisher and
