Mile posts: Items on Trans Iowa, Andrea Shine, Dan Soto, Paige Horner, Brogan Austin, Stan Linton, Pasca Myers

There are some parallels between running’s Dam to Dam and cycling’s Trans Iowa endurance race. Both events were retired by their organizers after their 2018 races, only to resurface for 2019 with new names.

Dam to Dam’s successor will be Dam to DSM, run by RipRoar Events’ Michael Zimmerman and crew on June 1, 2019. And likewise, Trans Iowa will be taken over by a new entity, called Iowa Wind and Rock. Like Trans Iowa, it will be a self-supported gravel race that will cover essentially the length of Iowa from border to border, about 340 miles

The new race directors are three people well known to Iowa cyclists: champion ultracylist Sarah Cooper of Urbandale and fellow Trans Iowa finishers Steve Fuller and Dennis Grelk. The 2019 version that will start and finish in Winterset will take place on April 20.

Registration has started on the Iowa Wind and Rock website (https://iowawindandrock.com) and will remain open until Sept. 22 at 8 a.m. The rider limit will be cut off at 120, with a lottery system used if more than 120 register.

Now, on to the WEEKEND UPDATE …

Starting with cross country, where University of Iowa senior Andrea Shine won her second race in as many attempts, taking the Woody Greeno Invite title Saturday in Lincoln, Neb. Shine covered the 6k course in 21:15.1 and defeated all of her Big Ten rivals from Michigan, Nebraska and Rutgers.

“Andie (Shine) opened her senior campaign in style,” Iowa coach Randy Hasenbank said in an university press release. “It is hard to win a college race, and she went out and did it. She had another good summer and is very fit. I am excited for her.”

Placing 16th overall was former Roosevelt High and Iowa State runner Megan Schott. The Iowa sophomore transfer ran 22:03. Freshman Anna Hostetler, a former Mid-Prairie standout, took 21st for the Hawkeyes in 22:10.5. Placing 50th was freshman and former Johnston High prep Jessica McKee in 23:05, followed by fellow freshmen Kylie Latham (23:13.8) in 52nd and Grace McCabe (23:19.8) in 52nd and 56th, respectively. Latham is a former Ottumwa High runner.

Former West Des Moines Valley prep Daniel Soto placed third in an impressive effort leading the Iowa men. The Hawkeye senior covered the 8k course in a personal-best time of 24:45.5. Iowa junior Nathan Mylenek took sixth in 25:08.6 as Big Ten teams covered the top seven places.

“Dan Soto competed very well with some elite talent up front, including an Olympian. He is fit and confident,” Hasenbank said.

Just missing the top 10 was Iowa junior Brandon Cooley of Bettendorf in 12th in 25:33.3. He was followed by senior Bailey Hesse-Withrow in 22nd in 25:47.0, sophomore Noah Healy in 25th in 25:49.6 and senior Ian Eklin in 26th in 25:52.1. The seventh Iowa runner was former Pleasant Valley runner, junior Karson Sommer in 28th in 25:53.7 as Iowa finished second in the team standings with 68 points.

Placing 33rd for South Dakota was former Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson athlete Eldon Warner. The senior ran 26:04.4.

At the Badger Classic in Madison, Wis., on Friday, former Cedar Falls High School runner Sam Schillinger placed seventh overall and second on the University of Arkansas team. Schillinger, a redshirt freshman, ran the 8k distance in 25:50.2.

Former Johnston High School standout Jordyn Kleve finished seventh overall and sixth on Missouri’s team at the ISU Invitational hosted in Normal, Ill. The redshirt junior from Urbandale ran 18:17.3 for 5k.

Moving to triathlon, where Johnston High School junior Paige Horner made a jump up the finishing order at the International Triathlon Union’s Junior World Championships in Gold Coast, Australia. A year after finishing 34th at the ITU Rotterdam event, the Z3 Triathlon team member finished 17th in the sprint competition Saturday. Horner’s time was 1:00:41, while the winning time was 59:11. Horner is the reigning Iowa Class 4A girls’ cross country champion.

Also at the ITU event, Z3 Triathlon alum Tamara Gorman took 18th in the U23 World Championships Olympic-distance event Friday. Gorman, who hails from Rapid City, S.D., covered the distance in 2:00:12. The winning time was American’s Taylor Knibb’s 1:53:47.

Gorman captured the ITU World title a year ago in Rotterdam with a 2:05:21 time.

Moving to the roads, where former Drake University standout Brogan Austin, 26, of Boone captured his third Capital Pursuit title in four years Sunday in downtown Des Moines. Austin, running in hot and humid conditions, ran 50:32 for 10 miles to defeat his Runablaze Iowa teammate Stan Linton, 24, by 45 seconds. Linton is a former Florida State standout living in West Des Moines like Austin.

Just missing out on top-three money was fourth-place Jason Thomas, 24, of Des Moines. The former Dowling Catholic prep ran 52:19. His Runablaze teammate, Indian Hills cross country coach Brent Ewing, 28, of Ottumwa was fifth in 54:52. Sixth was Adam Bohach, 34, of Decorah in 55:12, followed by Keegan Fitzsimmons, 24, of Pella in 56:02 and Ian McKenzie, 23, of Des Moines in eighth in 56:18. All are Runablaze athletes.

Taking her second Capital Pursuit women’s 10-mile title since 2014 was Pasca Myers of Fort Dodge. Myers ran 58:20 to defeat former Wartburg College runner Ashlyn Bagge, 23, of Waverly by 1:50. Third was Bagge’s Runablaze teammate Susie Duke, 38, of Grinnell in 1:03:36. Runablaze athletes completed the top five, as Flannery Cerbin-Bohach, 31, of Decorah was fourth in 1:04:53 and Casey McDermott, 29, of Grinnell took fifth in 1:05:36.

The overall 5-kilometer winner at Capital Pursuit was former Drake runner Ben Jaskowiak, 28, of Des Moines in 15:48. In second was former Johnston High and Iowa Central Community College runner Tyson Wieland, 24, of Des Moines in 15:56.

At the Waukee 10 race on Saturday, Wieland started his weekend by taking the 10-mile victory on the hilly course in 56:12.

Also at the MVRA Half Marathon on Saturday in Dubuque, Dan Froeschle, 28, of Davenport took the overall win in 1:13:20 on the hilly course. He won by almost four minutes.