Kaisa Sali decided to do her first Ironman when she was 12 years old. When she finished what she thought was a 180 kilometer bike route that her dad allowed her to do on his tiny pink mountain bike, and found that it was only 172 kilometers, she told her father in no uncertain terms that she needed to ride that final 8 kilometers to make it official. 22 years later she did her first Ironman and last October she battled through the marathon with Heather Jackson and Sarah Crowley and ended up fifth.
Jocelyn McCauley finished tenth last year and only a mere 1:19 separated seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth place. Could she be the top American finisher this year?
Jesse Thomas has won the legendary Wildflower Half Distance race an amazing six times. He is also a business owner -Picky Bars- and a father of two. As his career winds down, his goals this year were to go to races he has always wanted to do and one of those was Challenge Roth. He wanted to under...
Heather Jackson is as a former hockey player who has been consistently in the top five in Kona. What will it take for her to become the first American born woman since Karen Smyers in 1995 to win this race?
