Trans Iowa History Is Made!!
Sunday with about 10 minutes to spare before the final cut off at 2pm, Janna Vavra crossed the finish line of T.I.V7 in Grinnell, Ia.
While Trans Iowa has always had women in each of the seven versions, this one is the first to feature a women finisher. Janna was one of five women starters and was quick to compliment her competition by saying that they should serve to inspire other women to stretch themselves to reach for bigger challenges like they have.
Congratulations to Janna Vavra and all the women who toed the line at Trans Iowa V7!
Trans Iowa V7's new overall champion, Dennis Grelk, was in the front of the event most of the 322 miles and finished with a time of 28 hours and 40 minutes.
Dennis took advantage of an opening late in the event as he surged to the front and never looked back, crossing the line well ahead of second and third palce finishers, Tim Ek and Troy Krause.
Single Speed/Fixed class featured two finishers this year with same times. They were Aaron Gammel and Ben Shockey.
A "Special Achievement Award" goes out to Corey "Cornbread" Godfrey, who after detonating his derailleur and chain, went back to Grinnell, got it converted to a single speed at "Bikes To you", went back out and joined in on the ride, finishing out the loop, just for fun. Corey figures he put in a little over 310 miles.
More detailed reports are coming throughout the week. Stay tuned!!
7 comments:
Congrat's to all who toed the line at T.I. And a special congrat's to all who finished. Awesome job!!!
Congrats, Jana! Way to represent "The Good Life"!
Good work Jana! Hats off to all who started, make that a double for all who finished. I can't wait to read more about it soon!
congrats Janna. you're hardcore all the way!
oh and the proper spelling is 'Janna Vavra' :)
so very proud of the NE crew
Im a little late reading this...but flat AWESOME news!!! Mad,MAD props Janna (and all who toe'd the line) :D
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