Yes I know this post is 3 days late, ( just wanted to make sure Macca cleared doping, that and I have two 8 page papers due about bacteria and political leaders with names that are both hard to spell and pronounce.) But yes, the man I most fashion my racing style after has finally come through and become Lord of the Lava Fields, Empitome of Endurance, The Arrogant Chap with the world's best aerobic threshold...Chris Mc Cormack You are the Ironman World Champion and you'd had a hell of a race to do it. On the Women's side Chrissie Wellington Won in a blow out. Her nearest competition was Sam Mc Glone and she was six minutes back getting off the bike and that's where she stayed, Kate Major had been second but faded to third nine minutes behind the unstoppable Wellington. The sad thing is Ironman .com stayed gluded to the Women's race or lack thereof...as Macca, Crowie ( Craig Alexander) Trbjorn Sinbale, Chris Lieto and Tim De Boom waged a 5 man Ironwar. Granted when I saw Sinbale only had a 7 min. lead off the bike I knew it was all over for him....let's face Macca proved he could chase down Normann Stadler ( who dropped out via stomach virus...somewhere in the backround I can hear Peter Reid shouting "suck it up, I puked all over myself in 03 and still won." Or De Boom shouting " Whimp!" * Tim DeBoom dropped out of the 2003 Ironman due to passing a kidney Stone at mile 14 on the marathon. Granted I can't Blame Normann for dropping out this year..after all there is a difference between puking like a cholera patient and having a temper tantrum over a "Flat f&*king tire!") The guy that impressed me was the USA's Chris Lieto
For the second year in a row he was the 2nd guy off the bike. Then he took it out hard on the run. He passed then Leader Sinbale and led until about the half marathon point, when Macca and Crowie sort of said "thanks for the lift mate we'll take it from here." Lieto was repassed by Sinbale, Tim De Boom and some other dude. I will say this 6th in Hawaii is damn good! Now if the guy just puts more into his run focus we might just have another American capable of winning in Kona.So in a quick Kona Recap:
Lava= Hot
Queen K = Hot and Windy
Macca = The MAN!
Wellington= The Woman ( or possible EPO we'll see when the doping report comes out. sorry I'm a little untrusting of big breakthrough wins after the Nina Kraft, Floyd Landis, Vinokorov scandals)
Tim De Boom = still has it.
Stomach Viruses Suck! ( especially for Brown, Stadler, Jones, Al-Sultan)
Normann Stadler= Win or DNF
Bike Crash = No win and No smile for Natascha
Chris Lieto= Next American Champion?
and Max from HEAT finished in 9:55 no age group bling but still a kick ass time. Way to go Max!
So any Kona perdictions for Next Year?
R.D.
3 comments:
Bob-O 2008!!!
I'll watch as the Angry Coach and self proclaimed Short Course Specialist.
That was an awesome race! I was glued to my computer for most of the day which is highly unusall for me in any sport. Nice write up.
I got all misty-eyed when Macca finally made it. I was clapping alone in my computer room. And maybe they took some focus off the bike by the tail end of the marathon, but it took until the 13-mile mark for them to even TALK about the chicks in any detail in the first place. We were watching Simbale's white-clad ass for hours!
I hear you on the Wellington thing, kind of suspicious, but I sure was happy to have an upset... even if it WAS due to upset stomachs, traffic cones, and the like.
Go Macca
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