ABOUT ENDURANCE SPORTS TRAVEL
Endurance Sports Travel's first tour was in May, 2002. After winning Ironman Brazil 3 times, Ken Glah started Endurance Sports Travel to make traveling to Ironman Brazil both convenient and fun for athletes and spectators. After spending more than 20 years racing around the world, Ken knows from experience what it takes to travel overseas with all your triathlon gear and family as well. Soon after that first trip, Endurance Sports Travel was asked by the race organizers of Ironman 70.3 Pucon in Chile and Ironman Switzerland in Zurich to help athletes interested in their events. As athletes requested more destination races EST continued to expand. In 2012 Endurance Sports Travel will assist more than 1700 athletes and spectators at 28 beautiful locations around the world. When you travel with Endurance Sports Travel you not only get to experience the culture of the area you are visiting but also get to interact with other EST clients from all over the world. Our main goal is exceptional customer service so whether you are traveling with us for the first time or the 10th time, we will do our absolute best to help you achieve your goals.
Meet our Staff
Ken Glah - West Chester, PA USA
Ken has been racing around the world for over 30 years. He has competed in more than 70 Ironman races including a record 28 consecutive finishes at the World Championships in Hawaii where he has placed in the top ten 10 times. Ken has won national titles at the Olympic and Long Course distances in the U.S as well as major races, both short and long, in places such as Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, Chile, Guatemala and the Caribbean. Ken has won 6 Ironman races during his distinguished career- 3 in Brazil, 1 in Canada and 2 in New Zealand- as well as the 1993 Ironman World Series Title. Ken started Endurance Sports Travel to encourage athletes to race outside their home countries. Ken's passion for the sport of triathlon has evolved from his fascination with other cultures and his love for meeting people from around the world. EST is his vehicle for sharing his experiences with others. He lives with his wife, Jan Wanklyn, and daughter, Reanin, in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Ty Williams - West Chester, PA USA
Ty Joined Endurance Sports Tracel in January of 2009 as an Event Coordinator and Office Director. Since then he has been working closely with Ken out of their West Chester, PA office and looks to expand upon EST's already busy schedule. Ty and new hire, Travis Williams, will be heading the marketing and promotions at EST and hope to bring some exciting opportunities to each of the races EST covers! Ty Runs Marathons and looks forward to training with the other EST staff as he gains interest in the triathlon world. As an athletic competitor and runner, Ty enjoys working with various clients as each one has a unique motivational spark behind their love of "competing". It is finding that motivational factor in each client he works with that makes Ty so passionate about this job.
Stacy Hadac - Fort Worth, TX USA
Stacy joined EST in November of 2008 as an Event Coordinator. She is thrilled to be putting her degree in Recreation & Leisure Studies to good use! She currently works from her Fort Worth home and joins up with the EST team to assist with the daily operations at many of the races. While Stacy is relatively new to the world of triathlon her enthusiasm for the sport and the people competing in it, shows through in the love for her work. Besides being a competitive triathlete she enjoys traveling to races around the world and being surrounded by a healthy, active lifestyle. She has raced Ironman Florida, Arizona, Western Australia and various 70.3 distances. She is looking forward to the 2012 season and hopes that you will join her in racing at EST's many races!
Travis Williams - West Chester, PA USA
Travis, brother of Ty Williams, joined EST as an intern in May 2010. He is a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania with a Bachelors of Science in Sports Management and a minor in Marketing. Travis was quickly hired after completion of his internship with EST and has become an integral part of the team. He has quickly traveled and worked numerous international Ironman Races and looks forward to a full year of competition. Travis brings some modern ideas and creativity to EST and he is enjoying getting to know our wonderful clients all over the world! Watch out for some exciting marketing and promotional items as Travis gets his feet under him as the "rookie" employee with us!
Joseph Hammes - Cancun, Mexico
Joseph Hammes, the newest member of our team, is a proud graduate of Fordham University with a degree in Middle Eastern Studies. He was a long time resident of New York City before moving to Cancun, Mexico where he currently resides. Joseph has been a competitive triathlete for 6 years and previous to the world of triathlon, he enjoyed a long and successful career in competitive strength sports such as Olympic Weightlifting and Powerlifting. While not training or working, Joseph spends most of his free time reading. Fluent in Spanish and English Joseph will be an integral part of Endurance Sports Travels marketing campaign moving forward. With our recent partnership with Trichile and our commitment to excellent customer service Joseph will add a new dimension to our services!
Frank Haimona - Auckland, New Zealand
Frank has been involved in triathlon and associated races for the past 15 years. He has been part of the EST logistics team for Ironman New Zealand for the past 3 years. He also travels to the Asia-Pacific and European events. He has been involved in producing triathlon events and has competed in Ironman and the World Championships of Multisport, the Speights Coast to Coast, along with many half and olympic distance events. He looks forward to seeing you soon and forging a mutually long term friendship with you all.
Jessie Ferreira & Maria Lucia Opala - Florianopolis, Brazil
Jessie and Maria Lucia along with Ken and the EST Staff handle all of the logistics for Ironman Brazil. In 2011 EST took a group of over 1100 clients to this amazing race and beautiful country. Jessie and Maria Lucia look to build on those numbers to make each of our clients memory one that will last a lifetime while traveling to Brazil!Meet our Mechanics
Dan Evans - Tuncurry, Australia
Dan has been racing Triathlons in Australia since 1993 and spent some time racing in America from 1999 on. He started Racing bikes in 1988 and was a state champion over different distances in his earlier days. Dan participated in 4 Ironmans and raced Kona once. Most importantly Dan has been a bike mechanic for 11 years. In that time he has been able to work along side some great names in bike racing and learned many neat tricks from some professional bike racing teams. Dan is a great fit to the Endurance Sports Travel Team.He has Spent time in the San Diego wind tunnel testing cyclists and has fitted multiple Ironman world championship winners and some professional bike racers and one world record holder.
To this day, Dan still loves riding his bike, tweaking it daily, always trying to get the best and then some out of his machanical skills. Working with Dan it is evident he loves the sport of Long Distance Triathlon and has pretty much devoted his life to the sport. Dan's committment to the sport has offered him so much and he loves giving some of that back to people he meets at races.
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