Great Snake River Triathlon features Olympic connection

IDAHO FALLS — More than 200 athletes competed Saturday astatine nan Great Snake River Triathlon, braving a chilly aquatics successful nan Snake River earlier charging done nan Idaho Falls streets connected bikes and yet finishing up pinch a run.

Among nan area and location athletes were competitors from Canada and Germany, giving nan title a spot of an world flavor, but it was 1 mother-son combo that brought retired nan Olympic spirit.

Zane Lindquist, a 17-year-old retired of Alta, Wyo., won nan Sprint section race. Lindquist, who is homeschooled, is simply a authorities medalist successful transverse state and way for Teton High. He added different badge connected Saturday and took a fewer minutes to cool down and drawback immoderate h2o earlier nan title announcer called retired Barb Lindquist arsenic she crossed nan decorativeness line.

Barb is simply a highly dressed up triathlete, having vanished ninth successful nan 2004 Olympics successful Athens for nan US and was inducted into nan USAT Hall of Fame successful 2010. She retired from title successful 2005, but still is simply a coach for triathletes.

Saturday, she sewage to title pinch her son.

“He expressed liking successful (competing successful a triathlon) this summer,” Barb said, noting she didn’t want her inheritance to power Zane if he wasn’t interested. “All through, some my hubby and I person tried to downplay that.”

That wasn’t nan lawsuit for Zane, who is 1 of nan state’s apical region runners, but said he wasn’t acrophobic to effort caller things.

“This is an opportunity to effort thing retired and spot what I enjoy,” he said, adding he wasn’t needfully a instrumentality of swimming successful nan river, but erstwhile he was connected onshore he was backmost successful his element.

The Sprint title was a 0.67-mile swim, 13.9 miles connected nan bike, followed by a 3.1 mile run.

The Olympic section title included a 0.94 aquatics successful nan river, followed by 23.9 miles connected nan motorcycle and a 6.13 mile run.

“Coming disconnected nan motorcycle my legs felt for illustration Jello,” Zane said. “I benignant of had to shingle them out. It’s very unsocial and challenging successful a different measurement than way and transverse country.”
He took nan lead during nan tally and didn’t fto up.

Barb said they whitethorn compete successful a section title adjacent summertime earlier Zane heads disconnected to college.