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Fourth and 1,200
The Beaufort Gazette – July 4th, 2010
About 1,200 runners and walkers took part in the 25th annual Firecracker 5000 – the largest and oldest road race and fun walk in Beaufort Country – on a Fourth of July Sunday at Shelter Cove Mall on Hilton Head Island.
Above, a large pack of runners leave the starting line in the early-morning sunshine.
At right, overall winner Brett Burdick of Flint, Mich., runs along the course. Burdick claimed the crown with a time of 15 minutes, 48 seconds, just two seconds ahead of runner-up Curtis Begley. Hilton Head Island’s Dominic DeSantis was third overall in 15:56.
Cheri Jackson earned the woman’s overall title in 18:39. Second place Bridget Campbell finished in 18:49, and third-place Alicia Sherwood crossed the line in 19:02.
Tri A Triathlon
Special to Fit Magazine – June 22, 2010
By: Anne Feldman
When Bluffton triathlete Bridget Campbell goes to Budapest, Hungary in September to compete in the 2010 Short Course Olympic distance Triathlon World Championship, she’ll take one last look at the goals she wrote down the night before the race. Then she’ll put the list in her pocket and turn her focus to the competition.
Ranked among the top five female triathletes in South Carolina, the Bluffton High School math teacher and coach trained hard to reach this day. To qualify to go to Budapest, Campbell, 26, finished sixteenth in her age group at the USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships. In Hungary she will race with Team USA, a team of… Read Full Story HERE…
Double Pump women’s winner: Bridget Campbell
Savannahnow.com – December 6, 2009
Winning time: 1 hour, 1 minute, 27 seconds
Hometown: Bluffton, S.C.
Age: 26
Running experience: Campbell ran when she was in high school in Canton, Ohio, and while she attended St. Francis University in Pennsylvania. Since moving to Bluffton several years ago, where she teaches math at Bluffton High School, she has started competing in triathlons. In August of this year, she finished 16th in her age group at the USA Triathlon’s Age Group Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala. That qualified her for the Age Group World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in September of next year. Last month, she was the top female finisher in the 21st annual Piggly Wiggly Turkey Trot on Hilton Head Island with a time of 39:42.
Personal best: First time in this race.
Training regimen: As a triathlete, Campbell trains in three disciplines. She runs 20 to 30 miles a week, and bikes and swims three or four times a week as well.
Comments: Campbell said that she kept her eye on other women with pink bibs, the color worn by those participating in the Double Pump. She backed off a couple of times, she said, when she realized another female runner wasn’t registered in her event. Her biggest problem, she said, was the time spent standing and waiting between the end of the 5K and the start of the 10K. Other than that, “it was a nice set-up,” she said.
The beauty behind ‘The Beast’
Bluffton Today, 08-31-2009
Bridget Campbell has earned that nickname through a mix of tireless training, humility and indestructible will.
A day without exercise is a gloomy day for Bridget Campbell. A run on the Bluffton Parkway before sunrise is like an apple pie for her. When she cycles at Tour de France speeds spinning in place in her living room, she feels bliss. The early morning swims with the Sun City Masters club at the Bluffton Pool is a day started right.
“I feel worse when I’m not pushing myself,” she said. “If it’s an injury, that’s one thing. But I never say, ‘Ah, I’ve earned a day off.’ My mind just isn’t wired that way. Getting in the workouts, that feels like the reward.”
By the time she starts her workday as a math teacher at Bluffton High School, the quietest world-class athlete in town has likely exercised more in a day than most Blufftonians do in a month. There’s a drive inside her that was born at an early age. Whereas most jocks hang up their sneakers after high school or college and regale in embellished yarns of past glories, the 26-year-old has just begun to boost her trophy and medal count in the most physically grueling way possible.
OnAug.22,Campbellfinished 16th in her age group at USA Triathlon’s Age Group National Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala. That feat earned her a chance to battle the world’s best as part of the U.S. contingent at the Age Group World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2010.
“It’s an amazing feeling to say that I can compete on that level,” she said. “I never thought I would be a triathlete, but it’s a pursuit that I found here in Bluffton and I’m going to take it as far as I can push myself.”
Friends and family can’t quite find a ceiling to Campbell’s potential. She was a star on the track, swim and hoops teams in high school in Canton, Ohio, and continued to excel as part of the track team for St. Francis University in Pennsylvania.
She came to Bluffton four years ago to teach math, but her athletic abilities quickly came to light.
“She played in the annual teachers’ football game… Read Full Story HERE.
