Meet Professional Triathlete Beth Shutt!

Hey everybody!  It's time for you all to start meeting our awesome brand ambassadors.  This year we've established an awesome team made up of 20 amazingly talented women.  With such huge range of ages and abilities each one has a fantastic story of their own and we'd like to share them with you. 

This week, SOAS would like you to meet Beth Shutt, a first year professional triathlete from Pittsburgh, PA.  Beth's most recent race and professional debut was at Oceanside 70.3 on March 31st where she came in 11th place.  She spent some time building for this race at her family's home in South Carolina, where she was able to actually train outside in the winter.  And then continued on to an elite/pro training camp with Melissa Mantak in Denver.

The choice to become pro was an idea she had been toying with for quite sometime.  As a high school and collegiate runner at Penn State, Beth progressed into marathon running.  Plagued by a Plantar Faciitis injury, she began spinning and swimming as a means of recovery and cross training.  She did her first triathlon in 2006 and fell in love with the sport!  She had many successes in the sport, including Kona qualifying in 2010 and saw going pro as her way of progressing in the sport.  Beth says, "I do think racing with the best in the sport will help me elevate my game and help me achieve the potential that I have in swim/bike/run." We can't wait to see her continue to race. 

Outside of triathlon, she enjoys spending time with her husband Oscar and her dog Roxy.  She also works full time as a registered dietician at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. 

Check out Beth's most recent race report from Oceanside here: http://thetrialofmilesmilesoftrials.blogspot.com/2012/04/oceanside-703-race-report.html

Look for Beth racing at IM NOLA and at IMCdA in the next few months.  Good luck!!