“This is a good stop for me a long the way,” said Macasieb who traveled from Hawaii and went to Guam before he made his way to Saipan to join the Tagaman and the XTERRA Championship.
Macasieb, a three-time national XTERRA champion in the Philippines and three-time SEA games medalist is scheduled to race in another triathlon in Subic the Philippines on May 16.
The latest XTERRA championship he won was in Mexico, Pampanga in 2006, and he holds the national record.
Macasieb took the fourth place 10 minutes to the finish line last Saturday when English triathlete, Jim McConnel caught him on the run-course and was in front of him most of the time stumbled a bit.
“Jim (McConnel) catches me into the run and led me the whole time. I kept gap about a minute, but the whole time, I see him in front of me. And it’s so hard to get him. So many times I tried, and at the very end I saw him falling down, so I passed him at the corner,” Macasieb recounts.
It was almost 10 second to the finish line, he said. “That was very close,”
In the swim course, Macasieb knew they were four them—Sam Gardner, Renata Bucher and McConnel leading to the bike-course.
“I’ve moved my way on the bike and made it fourth over all,” he said.
