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She's a top national winter triathlon racer and was on the U.S. relay team that won Links of London world championship in Norway last year. She finished in just over an hour, five minutes, a couple of minutes ahead of secondplace finisher Kristy DeYong. In Sunday's race, Best said she had to concentrate hard during the ski leg because of the icy trail, making it a mental workout. The run was more of a cardio challenge, she said. Some runners described that leg like a steeplechase, with slush and the downed spruce to negotiate. Keller and other triathlon enthusiasts have been talking about putting on a winter race Links of London Flip Flop 3 Flowers Charm years. Summer triathlons, with swimming, running and biking, are wildly popular in Alaska. An official winter triathlon features running, biking and skiing legs, all on snow. Earlier Alaska winter races included running, skiing and swimming, so didn't meet the USA Triathlon requirements. The TriFlake started at Service High School, in the lower soccer field at the bottom of the sledding hill. The transitions between each leg were there, too, giving spectators plenty to watch. The racers started in a mass, running through the slosh to their skis. The competition included individual racers who signed up for all three legs as well as teams of two or three racers. In all, women and girls finished the whole race, as did men and boys. And at least a couple dozen more participated on nine teams. The youngest racers were links of london sale the oldest was . One celebrated her th birthday on the course. Avid winter cyclists including the top performers on Sunday were disappointed they couldn't race on their mountain bikes and fat tire bikes. Janice Tower, a long distance cyclist, was supposed to do the bike leg Sunday and had to scramble to dig out her old skate skis for her relay team. She said the skiing was excruciating, constant poling. But the event itself was terrific festive and fun, she said. Riding conditions were excellent as late as Saturday evening, said Bill Fleming, owner of Chain Reaction Cycles, one of the race cosponsors along with Skinny Raven and Up and Running Event Management. The chinook that blew over Southcentral Alaska on Saturday night changed everything. On an early Sunday morning test ride, Fleming and Chain valentine's Day rings coowner Jamie Stull both expert cyclists struggled near the course's start on the icy Tour of Anchorage Trail. In another section, the snow was rotten, waterlogged and impossible to ride on. Then Fleming fell into creek overflow. "That's it!" he said. He called Keller and advised her to call off the cycling leg. Some skiers quit the race early, saying even the ski course was too dangerous. By the second ski loop, course conditions had improved with softer snow, Keller said.