Multisports Orange County (CA)

SAN DIMAS, CA - Multisports OC Coach Michael Collins teamed up with professional triathlete and USA Waterpolo Olympican Julie Swail to compete at the 2006 Muddy Buddy Ride and Run - Los Angeles event held at Bonelli Park in San Dimas on Oct 29, 2006. The race consists of alternating mountain biking and running with obsticle courses separating the legs. Team mates alternate between the run and bike by just sharing one bike for the event. The team had the fastest coed time (40:17) and finished 8th overall including the all-male teams despite going several waves back which is a definite disadvatange due to congestion on the course leaving in the 6th wave. This is the second time Swail & Collins have done the event together and won the coed division, although they were challenged by another 66-75 combined age team and had to come from behind to take the win. "We had a blast doing it last year and looked forward to returning. Luckily it didn't conflict with Julie's very busy racing schedule although I was concerned with being able to pull my own weight this year since I just did the Chicago Marathon the week before. Last year I did the 3 legs of running and two on the bike, so this year we decided to switch and it worked out well. Julie is a little more tentative on the mountain bike with some many on the course so it worked out well for her to only bike twice since she probably runs just as fast, or even fast since I just did the marathon. We finished the final leg very close together. The team nearly didn't get to race as Collins got in a car accident on the way to the race and was considering giving his bike to the team in the other car since he ran into the back of their car which had their bike attached (See photo gallery HERE and b sure to read the captions.) Other Multisports OC members to compete included David B. & Brandy Bounds who either raced under alias names or were missing from the results, and Klim Granovsky and daughter Natasha finished in 55:00. Performance Chiropractic Doctor Travis Conley also competed, or should we say "participated" in the event with his girlfriend Amanda under the team name of "T & A" in 1:14:33. Full Results available HERE. See photo gallery HERE.