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Carlos Sastre wins Alpe d’Huez!

Well I’ll be honest, year after year I have grown less and less interested in cycling - the doping rumors, revelations, and persistent jokery out of the tour owners, managers, and cyclists has dampened my desire to spend any time watching it. The interesting thing is that as my interest was lessening, Chelle’s has [...]

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Triathlon Beijing Olympics Female Start List

The final start list for the female Triathlon Beijing Olympics race is up! Kind of funny that since they just totally draw for the numbers randomly you get Vanessa Fernandes with measly #54, Laura Bennett at #40, Emma Snowsill down at #34, etc… I guess the pontoon swim start numbers will be assigned later. [...]

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Life Time Fitness Triathlon Video 1: the swim and men’s T1

Well here is the first Life Time Fitness Triathlon Video showing the swim and men’s T1. I am guessing we might end up with a dozen of these so keep watching out for them. We see Andy Potts emerge out of the water first by swimming the third fastest time ever. Who [...]

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Heart of the Lakes Triathlon Results, report

Below is the link to the official Heart of the Lakes Triathlon results for 2008. Congrats to Brian Bich and Cathy Yndestad. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Cathy’s year is out of control and not_one_triathlete that calls Minnesota home is close to having the year she has had - [...]

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• Pretty cool to have wordpress capabilities on iPhones! Perfect for live triathlon race coverage. | Permalink |
• Wordpress allows me to see who links to my site and a new name showed up in the report - Joel Filliol, Canada's head triathlon coach who oversees the training for a bunch of the top Canadian triathletes, including of course Simon Whitfield, Paul Tichelaar, and Colink Jenkins who will represent our friendly neighbors to the North (for you foreigners, I live about 6 hours from the border).  I got a chance to only talk to him for a little bit at the Canadian Tri Team Gear West Bike ride but it seems like a good old fashioned story of working hard up the ranks in coaching and now gets to direct the tri kids around the world into getting faster and stronger ahead of the Beijing Olympics (including the famous "heat trailer" where you make your body temp go up to a certain degree and then hold it for 90 mins).  This was his post about the Gear West ride. To reach his normal site just point your browser to joelfilliol.blogspot.com. | Permalink |
• Mr Rappstar, Jordan Rapp has a Life Time Triathlon race report which includes my picture of his shoes over at blog.rappstar.com. I'm not a photographer, but I'm really getting into shooting stills of T2 after the athletes have left their gear behind and the next time they see it they will be trying to squeeze out a 30 second t1 or t2 time. | Permalink |
• So the ironmantalk.com hosts - John Newsom and Bevan James Eyles raced the Quelle Roth Ironman last Sunday and this slowtwitch.com thread reports that John did: Swim= 48:52/Bike= 4:59:19/Run=3:00:18/Finish= 8:51:27. Bevan: Swim= 53:39/Bike= 4:55:46/Run= 3:12:49/Finish= 9:05:39. Not bad - plus they got an interview with Macca up so go listen to it! | Permalink |
• Kerry takes amazing pics and Saturday was no different - check out his yndecam.com Life Time Fitness Triathlon Photo highlights for some sweet pictures of not only the pros but also the age group race. | Permalink |
• Jordan Rapp just reported on the happening at the 2008 Life Time Triathlon over on slowtwitch.com.  I got three photo credits that I am pumped about! | Permalink |
• I am sitting at ridgedale the night before Life Time trying to buy a stupid iphone and they ran out. So much for live coverage. I am not a happy person right now and I seriously wish that they'd spend more on production rather than on ads. My verizon phone is dead and I can't get it to charge - one more day of cell-phoneless access. Granted I could have showed up this morning to buy one but I was busy riding with Joanna Zeiger, Joanna Lawn, and Lawn's husband. So yeah I'd take that over an iphone anyday | Permalink |
• Insidetri.com has a good story on Aaron Scheidies and Luke McKenzie racing the Life Time Triathlon. Aaron broke the 2 hour mark at the US Open and I'm pretty pumped to see what they can do on Saturday. I hope to catch up with them tomorrow  - it's the first time for Luke to ride the custom Griffen tandem (sram red and zipp weaponry - no joke the bike is gotta be worth like $12k). | Permalink |
• An Australian story about the 2004 Athen Olympics describing some of the Triathlon podium placings...with some personal anecdotes from Greg Bennett and Hamish Carter (gold medalist) - back then Loretta Harrop was on top of the world (though she got silver behind Kate Allen) and Laura Bennett was still Laura Reback. | Permalink |