With all these tris every weekend, increasingly I am passing up on pro sports and spending time hitting updates on ironman.com of age group athletes. I literally don't care what is going on in the pro field for most races other than a few big ones like Roth, Frankfurt, Melbourne, which seems to be too bad because I am generally a supporter of pro racing. I gloss over ITU because it is a sport that I can't related to (I don't do draft legal racing). That leaves watching pro cycling, pro tennis, some track and age group triathlon updates!
Other than to get a benchmarks of how fast or slow a course is to compare age group times what the pros do in weekly IM events is a bit irrelevant and I never thought I would say this. I am having more fun seeing if Diana Hassel can hold off ex pro Heather Gollnick in W45-49 at IM Boulder than any MLB game this weekend! I suppose it also helps that I personally know a bunch of people racing all over the IM circuit every weekend, so it is fun following their progress. Watching people racing for Kona slots, PB's or battling to the finish ends up being quite exciting, in between stuff going on at home.
Dev
Other than to get a benchmarks of how fast or slow a course is to compare age group times what the pros do in weekly IM events is a bit irrelevant and I never thought I would say this. I am having more fun seeing if Diana Hassel can hold off ex pro Heather Gollnick in W45-49 at IM Boulder than any MLB game this weekend! I suppose it also helps that I personally know a bunch of people racing all over the IM circuit every weekend, so it is fun following their progress. Watching people racing for Kona slots, PB's or battling to the finish ends up being quite exciting, in between stuff going on at home.
Dev