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| Michelle in her home town in New Zealand |
Meet professional triathlete, and one of our
amazing SOAS Ambassadors, Michelle Bremer.
She’s had an amazing season so far and most recently placed 6th
at Ironman New York City. She also raced Challenge Roth a few weeks ago, in
which she placed 15th and Rev 3 Quassy half IM, placing 8th.
From Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.....a small
beach town, Michelle was born July 29th 1983. This is her first full year
racing as a pro and currently lives in Santa Monica for the US triathlon
season. She and her husband packed up their belongings and are moving around
the world for training, work and triathlon racing. “I left my full time job as a physical
therapist last August as the New Zealand/Australia triathlon season was rolling
around. So I have been training full time since then.”
Michelle started triathlon at the beginning of
2008, and raced casually as an age grouper for a couple of years, and after a
few top age group results through NZ and Australia and the ITU Long Distance
worlds, she played around with the idea of stepping it up a level. Her husband
actually gave the final push to giving it a go last year, so come August she
gave up work and started training for her first full IM distance. Some of her
amateur career highlights are 2008 AG winner at the New Zealand long distance
champs, 2009 AG winner at the New Zealand long distance champs, 2009 2nd place
AG25-29 at the ITU LD worlds, 1st place Forster Long Course Triathlon,
Australia, 1st place IM Western Australia.
“At that point I was writing my own training
programs and doing some swim training and a couple of cycle sessions with a
local triathlon club. I surprised myself and many others when I raced my debut
IM at IM Western Australia, and won. After that moment, I decided to take it
even further and started being coached by Siri Lindley at the beginning of this
year, and moved to Santa Monica in April to train with her squad.”
Her greatest fan and supporter, her husband,
has taken off 3 months of work to join her for training and racing this season.
Mom, Dad and 2 brothers live in New Zealand and try to come watch races as much
as possible.
How she met SOAS…
“I met Amanda and Stef briefly at the expo at IM Western
Australia, and then re-met Amanda when I joined Siri’s group as Amanda is also
coached by Siri, hence my link to SOAS!”
Michelle be in the States until October and
then will head back to New Zealand or Australia for our summer time. (It's
quite nice chasing the summers around at the moment!)
He replaces Houston Texans' running back Arian Foster. McGahee is in his second Pro Bowl.The Broncos' other participants are linebacker Von Miller TRX Rip Trainers, defensive end Elvis Dumervil and cornerback Champ Bailey. Tim Tebow, Brian Dawkins TRX-Suspension-Trainers, Matt Prater and Britton Colquitt were also named alternates, but the latter three are unlikely to make it. Tebow, though, could go if two out of Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger and Philip Rivers bow out Anchoring Solutions. Tebow is supposedly the second alternate.And he did all of this is on a limited basis. But like Alex Smith's situation, the guys who were elected to the Pro Bowl roster instead were more productive. Jared Allen was within a sack of breaking Michael Strahan's record for most sacks in a season TRX Rip 60, while Jason Babin was responsible for 18 sacks, and Pierre-Paul for 16.5.
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