TARA ROONEY

While she’s from the city made famous by deep dish pizza and spent her collegiate years as a distance runner at Florida State University, Tara has made the triathlon mecca of Girona, Spain, and the delicious local tapas, her home away from home. A longtime Quintana Roo devotee, she’s recently built her new V-PRi and has already put it to work with a 16th-place finish at Ironman 70.3 Valencia in Spain—with more to come.