Tamara Jewett flies to the win at Ironman 70.3 Michigan

It hardly comes as a surprise that one of the fastest runners in the sport would use the day’s fastest half-marathon to take the win at Ironman 70.3 Michigan. Canadian Tamara Jewett’s run was more than enough to overcome her three minute deficit to super-swimmer Lauren Brandon and hold off Jackie Hering for the win at Ironman 70.3 Michigan today.

Brandon was first out of the water with a one minute lead over Hanna Sakaluk and Grace Alexander, with Hering and Jewett part of a pack that exited the water about thee-minutes behind the former All-American collegiate swimmer.

Brandon held her lead through the bike, hitting T2 2:51 up on a group led by Jewett that included Alexander, Hering, Rachel Mensch and Robin Pomeroy.

It didn’t take long for the former Canadian national team runner to pull clear of the rest of the group in pursuit of Brandon – through 5 km the gap was down to about 10 seconds and by the time Jewett hit the 6 km timing mat she was 50 seconds ahead of Brandon, with Hering 58 seconds behind.

From there on it was obvious Jewett would take the win – her 1:15:19 run split got her to the line in 4:05:05, with Hering coming across 3:30 later (4:08:36). Pomeroy rounded out the podium in 4:23:15, Alexander took fourth (4:14:44) with Brandon finishing fifth in 4:16:49.