monty wrote:
I just had a look at the results, and to me, it really does not look like a good race at all for him. These are not the top bikers you get at Kona either.
Some in depth stuff there, looking at the result: conclusion bad race. This forum, smh - it is lol bad from the various self styled experts.
The fastest biker, who finished in second place, biked within a couple of minutes of Sanders at Arizona. Sure he's not been on the front in Kona. He's a 57min swimmer, which prevents him doing well.
A bit of research.... it takes 5 minutes.
It was a pretty good race for AB imho, I watched most of it. His main issue coming in (so I thought, anyway) would be pacing - but he paced it well. Bear in mind he had no specific prep, and he said after he enjoyed it until the last 10k of the run, when it became hard going.
He had no LD prep, no swim, which would have given him 5 - 10min on the others, held back on the bike and ran steady. It seems like a great debut after racing two SD tris the last three weeks.