Emily Mitchell-Kreutner was part of a co-ed winning team, Team Optimissport, this past Sunday at the prestigious Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon. Emily ran the 10k and final portion leg of the tri in a time of 37:19. Her teammates were Alan Morelli and Peter Smith. Alan did the first leg – the .9 mile swim – in a time of 24:10 and Peter biked the second leg of the tri in a time of 57:08 over 24 miles.

The course started as a ocean swim at Venice Beach, then the bike ride went though Venice, the Fairfax District and into Downtown LA. The 10k course was run through Downtown and ended at L.A. Live.

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Jen, Sam, Kim, Cambria and Tania post race

Cambria Wu, Tania Fischer, Jen Boyd, Kim Ramirez and Sam Jones competed and won as a team at the 38th Annual Bellarmine-Loyola cross country invitational in Griffith Park this past Saturday. Cambria, Tania and Jen took off as a threesome on the hilly course working as a team. At around the two mile mark and on a hill, Cambria surged to break up the group to chase after the eventual winner, Karla Albure (16:39.03). Cambria was second overall in a time of 17:00.68, Tania 17:13.35 for third, Jen 17:29.26 for fourth, Kim 18:03.04 for fifth and Same 18:50.44 for sixth woman.

Next up for the Janes – the Santa Monica Classic.

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Colleen Joyce who’s been training for longer distances (but also pretty good on the shorter distances too – see Road Mile Results) showed her strength yesterday in the Chico 10 race yesterday in Chico, California. She won in a time of 1:04.27, that’s 6:26 per mile pace, 47 seconds over the second place woman, Julie Shaw. Colleen, who graduated from Chico State, knew the race well and decided to go up and give it a try. Good job, Colleen!

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Jenny Boyd came in second in the 31st Annual Westmont Invitational held in Montecito this past Saturday morning. She ran a 19:07 over the hilly 5000 meter course. Bethany Nickless won in a time of 17:54.

For a list of the complete results, click here.

Cambria Wu, Tania Fischer, Erika Aklufi, Amanda Rondash and Kim Ramirez headed out to Riverside for the UC Riverside Invitational this past Saturday morning. Cambria was the first Jane running 20th place 21:21 over the 8000 meter course. Then came Tania in 49th place (21:59), Kim 54th place (22:06) and Amanda in 88th place (22:42). Erika, suffering from an injured hamstring, finished the race in a time of 24:02 for 137th place.

Tara Erdmann was first overall running 20:01.9 leading her Loyola Marymount University team to victory who scored 65 points over UCSB’s second place 69 points.

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For a video recap of the race with a great kick from Cambria as well as a few other shots of her and Tania, click here.