After a short break we continue with our random age group interviews. Mike Lorenzen is from Chicago and he became part of our random interviews when he became slowtwitch Facebook fan 11,111 on 11/11/11.
by Herbert Krabel, November 16, 2011
An inspired Lukas Vercbicas stormed to the win at the 2011 Junior ITU World Championships before shipping off to Oregon to run track for said University. Now Verzbicas has announced that he is returning to his first love – triathlon.
After a small hiatus we are back with a new issue of What We Have Noticed. This week we look at the Brooks Pure Connect, GU Mint Chocolate gel, Trix baby bibs and hat set, the No Drop Zone book and our sub site We Noticed.
Ronnie Schildknecht added another Ironman title to his resume with a convincing win in Panama City Beach in 7:59:42. Jessica Jacobs went sub-9 and repeated as the champion.
Nick Warren is another age grouper we recently met in a random manner. Like many others, he is very focused on family and job and works out when he finds time – but his day job is quite unique.
Greg Billington recently recorded a 4th place at the U23 World Championships in Beijing, China and the Wake Forest University grad has some other fine results on his resume. Sal Farruggia had a few words with him.
Here is a closer look at the top 15 men at the Ironman World Championships aboard their bikes. Want to know what they were using in terms of frames and components? Look no further.
We present the top 15 female Ironman World Championship finishers on the bike and look closer at their gear. Fastest bike split this year belonged again to Karin Thuerig who cranked out a course record 4:44:20.
Reinaldo Colucci broke away late in the run to take the Gold for Brazil at the 2011 PanAm Games triathlon. American Sarah Haskins took charge during the swim and bike and earned the women’s title.
Michael Raelert stormed to the title at Ironman 70.3 Austin with a 1:11:05 run and recorded a 3:47:48 winning time. Jessica Meyers took the win in the women’s race in 4:29:15.
Cody Westheimer is an age grouper who got to the Ironman World Championships with a lottery slot and his video diary of his day in Kona touched many of us. We had a few words with this very creative man.
We have added a new sub website to slowtwitch called We Noticed and there you are actually able to directly contribute images and videos. Have a look.
We again present the top male 15 athletes overall finishers during the run and talk about their running shoes. Fastest runner again was Aussie Pete Jacobs who managed a marathon time of 2:42:29 and finished in 2nd place.