I'm in. Probably doing the Kelowna Apple, Challenge Penticton Half double.

jonovision_man wrote:What a finish in the men's road race... smartest rider won, great strategy and patience!

jono

Always interesting how personal rivalries/friendships and trade team affiliation affects the outcome of world's. Same with world cup football...

Exciting to watch, but NOT NORMAL!

Smart kid.

He'll have a far more secure future as an engineer than a professional athlete.

Can't wait to watch the replay of the stage tonight.
Epic vistas, a big dinosaur... and awesome racing!

I know all about the nasty crosswinds... I get killed in road races here every time the wind blows as a 130lb climber type. Gutter racing favours the heavy dudes.

No offense taken.

While Sherwood Park may be a great place to live, but a tourist destination? Hell no!

Europeans watching the race may be intrigued though. Big, wide open spaces are rare in Europe.. and may appeal. But again... Banff is just way better!

Eurosport is covering today again.

The camera feed reliability has been poor. Probably the worst I've seen for a top level event. And cut the clips of the mayors pimping their cities and towns.. awful, just awful.

At IM Regensburg they took my picture with my bike, holding my race number. They pull it up on the computer as you leave transition... good for a big race, but impossible for smaller events.

Cheered my ass off at the prologue. Decent crowds, not huge, but decent. Was really cool to hang outside the team buses. You can get right up to the riders.. and a lot of them are quite friendly too. Cadel was hugely popular... he was loving it. Couple of my buddies rode the "citizen's prologue...

If you have the money, get both bikes. If you don't, consider which is most appropriate to your riding. With the explosion of fondo riding, I'd think most people would opt for a roadie with clip-ons as a compromise. I'd take the time to slam the seat forward and drop the handlebars though, maybe a s...

CinC wrote:I was thinking that you just weren't going to post it - so I'm glad you did! Congrats and thanks for sharing the experience! Looking forward to next year even more!

I will answer any logistic questions you have... I tried to include a few in my report. You are going to LOVE IT!!!!

Spirit wrote:your story made me cry.

Oh dear, I know my editing was bad...

I am really impressed with what I saw of the coverage.

My wife and I really want to give either race a go, but the price to fly to Ottawa or Montreal... we could almost go to Europe!

Good job on finishing; Don't read too much into the crappy marathon split (large proportion of AGers do perceptually poorly here). Maybe this experience will motivate you to get into triathlon I've been doing triathlon since 2002. This was my 7th iron distance race. I've ran 3:41 in an iron distanc...

Race report posted in the race reports forum.

It's barely edited.. and a brain dump of what I can remember from race day. It's two parts... I think it needs a third....

Part 2 the race! The night before the race made the decision to eat as early as possible. I had eaten early before the Oliver ½ iron in June and I was able to digest and get to bed by 8, so I suggested to Naomi we do the same for Iroman. I think we finally fell asleep around 8:30 or so. Our alarms w...

Congrats. I was the race official on that day. Really loved the run course through the ravine!

I'm good friends with the RD James and his brother Matt who won the race overall. Great guys!

This is part 1... I don’t usually write race reports. I stopped when I walked away from blogging in 2009. However, Roth was a unique bucket-list type race, and I have had many requests for some details… so here goes. I had always heard about the legendary Challenge Roth race, but never considered do...

Can we somehow, somehow please get Vic Router to stop saying 'tri-ath-a-lon'....? :? :lol: Can we somehow get Vic Rauter to stop... period! jono Vic is the guy that gets assigned all the "euro" and fringe sports at TSN unfortunately. He just reads a script... we're lucky if he can pronoun...

Jwolf wrote:That was quick Carla! I thought he'd have to wait a while before he knew.

Greg- will we have to wait till next year's race to read the report?

I'm working on it... seriously! I barely completed unpacking this weekend. My bike is still in it's bag...

CinC wrote:Well, Dave got his spot, so one issue sorted!

Must have a pretty good connection!

I'll include all my logistics tips in my RR. It's mostly done, but I got too lazy on the weekend due to jetlag to finish it.

IIRC, dehydration improves performance to a point for runners... but not the same for cycling because running is weight bearing.

The loss in performance from dehydration would not offset the very marginal increase in W/kg...

I'm in for next year. There are a few things that might cause this to change, but unlike WTC, the Challenge series will refund most of your entry, so I registered. it sold out in just over 3 min at 2am our time on Mon morning. I had tried to register Dave at 2:04 and was denied....thus one of the f...

The wall of sound as you turn towards Solar Berg is pretty amazing eh! You read the reports, you see the pics, but it's nothing compared to actually riding it. The hill at Greding was packed too. And there was another hill that was packed on the first lap... but not sure exactly where on the course...

Just have to say... for those of your that do iron distance racing... Challenge Roth was off the charts amazing. It is a MUST do!!! I've raced a lot of different places, in different countries, and I don't think there is a triathlon anywhere that matches it. I promised a bunch of people that I would...