Joes Becoming Pros Contest Winner #2 - Russ Craig

Joes Becoming Pros

KAT and Fresh Air Experience Athlete 

Feature Contest

Winner #2 : Russ Craig

Russ Craig is our second winner of the KAT athlete feature contest sponsored by Fresh Air Experience. He is now the proud owner of a 25$ Gift Certificate to Fresh Air and a KAT cycling jersey! 

Here is our interview with him:

Q. Have you participated in the KAT in the past or will this year be your first time?

A. I’ve done it 5 times, once on a team and the other 4 individual. This year I haven’t decided yet if I’ll do it as a team or as an individual.

Q. Why did you choose to do the KAT in the first place? 

A. Mostly because I live here, it’s such an easy race to wake up at 5am and go race!

Q. What is your favorite part about your triathlon experience?

A. Just getting out on the ride and seeing the people out there, all the volunteers. Basically just enjoying the day because I’m not going to win and I know that and I’m okay with that!

Q. What was your biggest challenge and how did you overcome it? 

A. It was probably one of the years, the current in the lake reversed so the swim instead of being a 25minute swim it turned out to be an hour. So I realized I really needed to swim more and the more I swam the easier it all became. It was when the old course was down by city park.

Q. What advice do you have for everyone else training for their KAT race?

A. Learn to swim in the lake, do lake water clinics. Swim in the lake! Do the across the lake swim.

Q. What was the best part about the race?

A. There’s so many memories I’ve got. One year the skies opened up and it poured that morning; I wasn’t in it that year but I had 2 friends that were. It was amazing how well it was handled, it was a complete catastrophe but the organizers put a positive spin on it and everyone had fun and enjoyed it!