"The Team" l to r: Paul Ricker, Angie Smith, Mike Mulroy, Rob Smith, Pam Culver
No way I would have ever agreed to do this without the encouragement and “pressure” from my training partners. We are all doing this together so it will absolutely be a journey with friends.
Angie Smith “Coach”
- High School Biology Teacher
- High School Track/Hurdler Coach
- Ran hurdles and swam in high school
- Started triathlons about 6 years ago
- She is the rabbit in the group, fast in all three disciplines and the one we are all trying to catch!
- First Ironman
Rob Smith “Marathon Man”
- Service Manager for car dealership
- Not an athlete in high school but ran with his dad
- Has completed over 100 marathons and he does them fast. PR 2:54
- Did a few triathlons a few years ago and then got back into them in 2010 in preparation for Ironman
- First Ironman
Paul Ricker “The Aussie”
- Retired computer guy
- Played rugby as a young adult not sure about “high school” sports – he grew up in England
- Has been running, biking and triathlons for years.
- Has completed two Ironmans in 2005 (Wisconsin and Western Australia)
Mike Mulroy “I’ve reached my lifetime limit of….”
- Retired County Judge
- High school – tennis and basketball
- Runner – has been running since age 40, took a break while his kids were in high school and returned to running again faster than before doing 5k to marathon
- Completed Ironman Wisconsin in 2008
And our fearless leader and slave driver,
Maggie Fourneir “Notre entraîneuse”
- Podiatrist
- High school sports: Flag Football & Volleyball. A bad knee injury lead me to swimming, which lead me to cycling…
- Doing tris since 2000 (DNFed my very 1st race…I chickend out on the water and had to be carried to shore by the kayak!!! True story!)
- Completed 8 IM (2X Lake Placid, 3 X WI, 2X AZ and kona once)
- Qualified for Kona AGAIN at Ironman Wisconsin 2010 and won her age group so she will be training for Kona while helping us train for Wisconsin.
- Scary note for us – Maggie was planning our training program while she was tearing up the Ironman Wisconsin course in 2010. I am so scared of what she has planned!!!! But I know she will make sure we are ready!
I will see if I can get them to contribute to this blog as well along the way