Pittsburgh Triathlon Club

Open Water Swim Tonight With Pre-Clinic

ryan — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:16:38 +0000

Open water swim is on for this evening. Coach Suzanne a level 2 USAT coach and TI Coach will be putting on a brief clinic! The water is a great temp and the current is cooperating!

Check back soon as we have some big results to post about huge accomplishments at recent 70.3′s!!!!!

Wow Do We Have Some Awesome Results!

chad — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:37:38 +0000

The PTC had a great showing across the tri-state area. Big congrats to all PTC Participants!

Pittsburgh Triathlon & Adventure Race (8/1)
Kim Schwabenbauer 2:14:08
Lauren Skena Kimball 3:16:09
Juliet Kelty 2:00:09
Lisa Myers 2:56:21
Jill Schapiro 1:36:51
Chris Demuth 3:00:06
Lee Kimball 2:43:00
Chris Rotelli 2:07:07 1st Male Overall
Tom Mitchell 3:38:16
James Milliron 1:11:21
Mike Vanselow 2:40:50
Angela Merlino 1:43:26
Vito Rocco 2:51:20
Tim Bachman 2:22:57
David Cerniglia 2:55:12
Ryan Diehl 2:14:56
Kathrine Vargo 2:55:28
Dan Moran 2:51:23
Dean Altavilla 2:59:08
Vicki Dolan 2:59:32
Ken Katz 1:13:19
Joe Salizzoni 1:14:54
Jen Caviness 1:17:31
Alireza Edraki 1:21:45
Nicole Berrian 1:30:36
Chris Schoborg 1:31:49
Marie Elash 1:34:13
Rachel Wathler 1:35:58
Kathryn Arbogast 1:36:33
Paul Degonosh 1:42:49

North Park Sprint Triathlon (8/8)
Chris Rotelli 1:04:27
Andrew Murray 1:41:24

Morgantown Half Iron Triathlon (8/8)
Shaun McBurney 5:15:17
Jim McCarthy 5:55:34
Todd McIntyre 5:27:12
Tom Mitchell 7:27:17
Sarah Quesen 7:01:26

Morgantown Olympic Triathlon (8/8)
Beth Shutt – 1st Overall Female 2:10

Cleveland Triathlon (8/8)
Chris Kopchak 2:22:24

We appologize if we missed anyone. If we missed you, please make sure to get your race schedule on the PTC Race Calendar at https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsG_QYTCtlqrdEhiWjYzaF9LREo0YXFGVjdJeEZWR0E&hl=en&authkey=CL6twv4P

Chad Holderbaum & Jocelyn Cornman are going to KONA!

ryan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:02:19 +0000

You read it correctly! Chad Holderbaum posts and incredible 9:42 at Lake Placid Ironman 2nd AG to qualify and Jocelyn Cornman says, “Hey I want to go to”! She finishes 3rd AG in an amazing 10:45! FAST doesnt describe these two! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Big Congratulations to Devin Hanna who also competed at IM Placid!! Fantastic job!!!

Chad Holderbaum & Jocelyn Cornman are going to KONA!

ryan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:31:24 +0000

Big Congratulations to Devin Hanna who also competed at IM Placid!! Fantastic job!!!

More PTC’er 1sts!! NYC and Wisconsin HIM taken down!

ryan — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:22:07 +0000

Mary Brougher and Paula Ballog show NYC how the PTC takes on triathlons! Congratulations! Sweet Medals!!!

Bruce Jenkins completes his first HIM in Wisconsin!! WOW!! Just an incredible job by all!! The PTC rocks!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PTC’ers are now MUSSELMEN!!!!!

ryan — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:39:32 +0000

A picture says a thousand words – this is our own Jenn Caviness and Marie Elash before they along with Chris Nocera completed their very 1st HIM! Jill Schapiro had her best race to date there as well & I cant tell you how many great things I have heard about this race!

Beth Shutt takes an AMAZING 1st at Ironman Providence 70.3!! Already Kona bound & still tearing it up!

Congratulations to Lisa Meyers who had a great race at the Connelsville tri and representing the PTC!!!!!

The PTC Continues to Rock!

ryan — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:28:49 +0000

Congratulations to all who competed in the Damn Tri! And a very well ran race!
Chris Nocera was 3rd OA in the Elite division(Oly), Jim Wrubel finished 12thOA/4th AG35-39(Oly), Todd McIntyre finished 2nd AG 45-49 and 20th OA(Oly), and Gabe Silverman 8th OA 1st AG 30-34(Sprint) amongst others. Also, Todd McIntyre completed Boise 70.3 two weekends ago setting a PR for the swim and ran a 1:42 half marathon.
Ken Katz took 3rd AG at Blackhawk!
Major Congratulations to Angela Merlino for completing her very first tri at The Connellsville Triathlon! Jason Osekowski, Chris Demuth and James Wilson also conquered the less than ideal conditions and represented the club well! Way to hang in there!!!

Jackie Kallal gets tamed by the PTC!

ryan — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:41:55 +0000

How about Chris Nocera winning over all!
Laura Rocco takes 3rd AG!, Bob Savageman Mays takes 5th AG!, Gabe goes 2nd AG!, Ken Lambert does the swim with no wetsuit..BEAST, Steve Awesomeburg completes his first tri ever & Jill Schapiro comes in strong for the PTC! A special PTC get well to Vito Rocco after taking a very hard fall on the bike. 40mph..We are so glad you are ok!

KONA BOUND!! Jeremy & Beth!!!

ryan — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:50:18 +0000

Jeremy Cornman & Beth Shutt are going to KONA!! Jeremy & Beth both performing incredibly at Eagleman this past weekend. Did I mention that Jeremy also beat a few pro’s!! Not just the fasted in Pittsburgh, but two of the fastest in the world!
Other incredible PTC competitors at this Ford Ironman 70.3 included:
Lisa Morell 23rd!, Jocelyn Cornman 6th!, Jenn Holderbaum 23rd!, Chad Holderbaum 4th, & our friend Matt Mauclaire!

More race results for the Jackie Kallal Tri will be up soon!

The PTC Kick’s Butt!!

ryan — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:06:04 +0000

A major congratulations to all who have competed recently!
Mary Brougher completes her 1st Triathlon in the Tri For Joe!!!!!
A HUGE showing at the Edinboro Tri -(turned du) for the PTC with James Wilson completing his very first triathlon!!!!, Chris Demuth 7th AG!, Sean McBurney 4th AG!, James Wrubel 7th AG!, Jason Osekowski 9th AG!, Joe Salizzoni 8th AG!, Lisa Meyers 8th AG!, Ryan Diehl taking 1st AG!

Good luck to all who are competing this weekend! Please email your race results! Congratulations PTC!