July 05, 2011

Holy Edelweiss, Kelly! 9:29:49?

OK, so Ironman Austria's Klagenfurt course is known as world-record fast. But 9:29:49? That may be the fastest amateur female IM time ever. And that's what Kelly Fillnow (28, from North Carolina) just did. If  you read a recent blogpost

by Kelly honoring her friend Sally Meyerhoff (killed in a bike accident this March), you'll see the prediction by another mutual friend that "something special is going to happen for you in Austria". Indeed.