Gary is a legend. Last year I walked into Kona Bike works with my two bikes, ready for inspection, and he's walking around the store choosing which bike he's going to RENT for the race!

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Well at least she outbiked Javier Gomez from Hawi back...she's got the Hawi to Kona leg nailed so if she got really bored and wanted to outrun all the men at ultraman on the same leg and just do a week of running in a day as part of a Sutton approved training block, well there might be a battle between her and Chrissie, but it sounds like you guys are all safe from having to deal with being second fiddle in that battle. See Rob, it's easier to battle with guys because unlike women, you can actually dupe with them letting their male egos and testosterone (or what is left after Ultraman training) get in the way of rational pacing. Men have to use some semblance of either brain power or google cloud optimized neural network to totally control their bodies to get the most out of their engines. Those women pros, they don't have testosterone in the way, and nor do they need to get into any highly optimized intellectual calculation....they have it nailed like a Boeing 787 dreamliner flying San Francisco to Hong Kong on a steady and even fuel efficient keel. Almost impossible to beat that.

There is actually a strong kernel of truth here!

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Thanks Anna - hopefully we can do a lot more FB live kind of stuff on day 1/2 this year since we'll actually have internet connection in Kona (unlike Volcano where there was not much at all)

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Thanks Jeremy!

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What's all this talk about voting like it's a mid term election and Rob Gray is going for Senator for the big Island? But hey, if Arnold can be a body building movie star from Austria and take over California, certainly a tech geek from South Africa, via London, Silicon Valley and Boulder can run to take over the state of Hawaii? Or are you guys voting for Petr Vanbrousek, who comes from next door to Austria from where Arnold hails and comes to the big island after pretty well doing every Ironman on the planet each 10x.

I was going to vote for the first woman Senator of Ultraman, but Chrissie Wellington is slacking off....so I am stuck with voting for the South African Google Guy who rides bikes without seat posts.

Friday morning in Kona! It's on....three days of stage racing on the Island....Rob vs Petr Vanbrousek (among many more).

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Looks like Rob is first out of the water in 2:44:04. Richard Thompson in second in 2:47:47 and Mary Knott (1st female) in 2:56:03

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What kind of a tourist time is this for Rob? He's probably lost his built in bioprene layer on the Macca cabbage and water diet and is less "floaty". Hopefully he has enough fat on his to get through the next 2 days!!!

Go Rob.


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Day 1 finishers so far...

Richard Thompson: 6:52:51
Rob Gray: 6:59:36
Petr Vabrousek: 7:30:42
David Hainish: 7:49:48
Gary Kelly: 8:00:33
Trout Wayth: 8:01:41

Richard and Rob were together at the bike turnaround - Richard must have really put the hammer down to put almost 7min into Rob on the net downhill back to town.

No women across the line yet but Tara Norton was pulling away from the field as expected last I saw.

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Update on Women's Race

Tara Norton takes Day 1 in 8:16:51. Mary Knott keeps her deficit to Tara to under 15min with an 8:31:48. They are both in the top 10 overall as well.

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See this is what happens when you go on the Macca diet. You lose all fat and get droppe downhills. I suggest Rob go on the ice cream and oreos program tonite!

it was a tough swim today, on any other year my effort would have got me sub 2:30.
Richard was actually quite far ahead of me in the swim and then had some type of problem and I overtook him. We had a massive current at the end, I was swimming all out and was going nowhere! Richard rode really hard to catch me, we rode together for a while but then I let him go because I felt the effort we were riding was going to affect my day 2 if I carried on with that. He put in a massive surge, honestly I'm surprised the gap at the end was only 7 mins. With the way he was riding I was expecting closer to 15. We find out tomorrow if he burned too many matches today! But he's looking really good on the bike.

Tomorrow is going to be a long day. By my predictions I don't think I'm going to ride much faster than 8:30... that's a long time to be on a bike!

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Roboultra on instagram has lots of video of yesterday if you go to the "stories" part. Looked like decent conditions and a lot of fun.

Yeah yeah....but you know what happened to Crowie when he thought Macca was burning too many matches! Hammer then all into the ground at all times like Cam Wurf LOL!!!

Yeah, it looks like Tara had a really solid day!

Rob, you better watch out for that Vanbrousek guy. He seems to have swam like a wet noodle (for a former pro), but kind of matched your pace on the bike on day 1. I assume he gets stronger and stronger over day 2 and day 3!

GO MARY KNOTT GOOOOOOOOO

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So what happened on the bike today? Even with the time change from CA here, they should be done, no???

Saw a bunch of facebook small clips of the ride today earlier, looks like some close riding by some of the folks..Do they use the pro rules or AG ones for spacing??

Looks like Vanbrousek was 2nd and Rob 3rd today

Richard Thompson 8:20
Vanbrouske 8:28
Rob Gray 8:34

Great job Rob!