Ben Hoffman is having a great season so far with a runner-up spot at 70.3 Boise behind Craig Alexander and several other nice podium finishes including a 3rd place at Buffalo Springs Lake 70.3 a couple days ago.
by Herbert Krabel, June 29, 2010
Reigning Kona three-peater Chrissie Wellington weighs in with a thoughtful, thorough response on Ironman’s proposal to overhaul its prize money and World Championship qualification system.
Ironman has clearly been frustrated by the lack of quality athletes toeing the starting lines of many of its events. The new proposed framework attempts to address this.
So many products, so little time. Today we look at the Giro Prolight helmet, Tritan Positive Drive fins, Powerbar Gel Blasts energy food, Haribo Happy Cola snacks, a new Rotor 3D length and the QLOCKTWO clock.
Marcel Zamora Perez won his 5th straight Ironman France with race-best bike and run; Tine Deckers sets course record, wins by 2.5 miles over Erika Csomor, repeats at Nice
Kiwis Bevan Docherty and Nicky Samuels won the 2010 Philadelphia Insurance Triathlon that was changed to a 5k run, 40k bike and 10K run duathlon after an apparent tragic incident yesterday.
Chris Lieto used a monster 2:08:04 bike performance and a solid run to take the 2010 Ironman 70.3 Buffalo Springs Lake race in Lubbock, Texas. Magali Tisseyre ran down fellow Canadian Angela Naeth to take the women’s title.
Andy Potts dominates Coeur d’Alene by 13:37 to take his first Ironman victory; Linsey Corbin breaks the course record, run record in her first IM win.
Spain’s Eneko Llanos outran Martin Jensen of Denmark by 1:26; Virginia Berasategui completed an all-Basque home region sweep with a 4:16 margin over Great Britain’s Jodie Swallow at European long distance champs in Spain.
The World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) is currently circulating a document to all its Pro members with proposed policy and rule changes focus mostly on Kona qualifying. The document though is not final yet.
Fraser Cartmell runs down Philip Graves by 1:50; Bella Bayliss outruns Tamsin Lewis by 3:24 to take Ironman 70.3 UK crowns
A few more photo caption competitions are now in the books featuring images from Muddy Buddy, Ironman Hawaii and a random vacation picture. Meet the winners of photo caption competition 4-6.
Conrad Stoltz of South Africa topped Dan Hugo and Renata Bucher of Switzerland edged Shonny Vanlandingham to win the XTERRA East Championship off-road triathlon in Richmond, Virginia Sunday