Team Adrenaline finishes second at Spartan Race

In the individual overall standings Team Adrenaline had six athletes finish in the top-100, including four individuals placing first in their age group, but no times were more influential in earning the second-place team standing then the top-five finishes by Ben Iremonger and Jake Gazan.

Iremonger was the highest overall finisher for Team Adrenaline as he finished in third place overall, first in the men’s 25-29 age group, with a final time of 43 minutes and eight seconds.

In fifth place was Gazan, who finished with a time of 44:45. Gazan, who is 19-years-old, topped the men’s 14-19 age group with his time.

The reality of these two local athletes finishing top-five at this event is remarkable considering all the challenges the Washougal Spartan Race course offers.

During the duration of the three-plus mile course at Washougal, competitors had to face 21 different obstacles that included overwalls, hurdles, a six-foot wall, vertical cargo, rope climb, inverted wall, a-frame cargo, rolling mud, dunk wall, slip wall, Hercules hoist, barbed wire crawl, Olympus, Atlas carry, plate drag, Clif bucket brigade, spear throw, sandbag carry, a seven-foot wall, multi-rig and monkey bars.

As important as it was for Team Adrenaline to get top-finishes overall from Iremonger and Gazan, an important factor into the team’s overall finish was the four other athletes that earned a spot in the top-100.

In the top-25 individually was Jeff Irwin. Irwin, who finished with a final time of 50:30, placed 21st overall and first in the men’s 50-54 age group.

Nearly squeezing into the top-50 was Logan Davis, who finished with a final time of 53:39 and placed 51st overall, only one-second behind Joseph Adams in 50th place (53:38).

In 69th place for Team Adrenaline was Timothy Saur. Saur’s final time of 55:34 earned him a seventh-place standing in the men’s 40-44 age group.

The last runner for Team Adrenaline to crack a spot in the top-100 was Alex Willis.

Willis was the first female athlete to finish the race for Team Adrenaline as she placed 91st overall with a time of 57:23. The finish for Willis earned her first place in the women’s 14-17 age group.

Outside of the top-100 for Team Adrenaline were some noteworthy finishes, including the finish of 61-year-old Craig Holloway.

Holloway finished third overall in the men’s 60-64 age group with a final time of 1:10:30; overall finish of 445th place.

The final finishes for Team Adrenaline was the father-daughter duo of Brody and Taryn Schilling.

Brody placed 1,309th overall with a time of 1:27:58 and Taryn shortly followed finished 1,311th overall with a time of 1:28:02.

The final average time for Team Adrenaline was 48:00, which was three minutes ahead of team, “Spartan 4-0,” in third place and nearly seven minutes behind the winners of this year’s Washougal Spartan Race, team Beast OCR.