Saturday in Roth is bike check-in day and starting at 1pm a constant flood of athletes poured into T1 to drop off their bikes and helmets for the big race tomorrow.
by Herbert Krabel, July 13, 2013
2012 Challenge Roth champion James Cunnama is back to defend his title and we took a closer look at his 56cm Cervelo P5-3 a couple days before it is in full action.
With the 2013 DATEV Challenge Roth now only 2 days away athletes and their families packed the expo and got ready for the carbo loading party.
The DATEV Challenge Roth team has been busy the last few months and now the race is upon us with racers now arrived in town and the expo getting busy.
Amanda Stevens flew to the A2 Wind Tunnel in NC to meet up with Mike Giraud from Blue bicycles to get fitted and fine tuned on her new race bike.
In this issue of The Weekend Box we look at the 2013 Celtman Extreme Scottish Tri, Ironman 70.3 Haugesund, the return of The Man, XTERRA France and a new Challenge event in North America.
Eneko Llanos had an impressive sub-8 performance at the European Ironman Champs in Frankfurt while several other favorites faltered. Camilla Pedersen ran down Jodie Swallow in her first Ironman outing and recorded a very fine sub-9 time.
German Pro Maik Twelsiek had a somewhat forgettable season in 2012 but looks to be back at full strength this year. He had a video chat with us.
The Wing57 helmet is the newest helmet from Rudy Project, and follows the popular Wingspan model that was launched in 2009. We took a closer at it.
Age grouper Leslie Sanderson from Ottawa was the second fastest age grouper at Ironman 70.3 Mont Tremblant – by 7 seconds. Now where were those 7 seconds lost? We checked in with this fast 46-year old.
Lloyd Thomas and his wife Britta own CycleFit, a bike fitting studio where at any given time you might encounter various ProTour riders or Pro Triathletes there.
Alison Powers of team NOW and Novartis is a very versatile bike racer and is considered a threat in any time trial. We looked closer at her Specialized S-Works Shiv TT.
Greg Billington and Jennifer Spieldenner took the wins at 5i50 St. Louis last weekend and here is an image gallery from the event courtesy of John Lynch.