chilled wrote:
AB is just under 3 minutes ahead at 40k. That's extended the gap 2 minutes in 20k. Flying.Just ridiculous.
Now 4 mins at 60k.
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Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [chilled]
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Just ridiculous.
Now 4 mins at 60k.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [splashrunner]
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splashrunner wrote:
Is Boardman cleaning house? They seem to have lost / dropped a few people recently.I don't think Chris Boardman owns Boardman bikes anymore. I think he sold out last year.
I know Ali had a lot of respect for him so maybe that was also a small piece of his decision?
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [splashrunner]
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splashrunner wrote:
chilled wrote:
AB is just under 3 minutes ahead at 40k. That's extended the gap 2 minutes in 20k. Flying.Just ridiculous.
Now 4 mins at 60k.
Terrible Tuesday’s Triathlon
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [oscaro]
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AB had about 6 mins lead into T2 and held onto it past 2.25km on the run. Mark Buckingham is a few minutes off the podium in 4th but I bet a good chance of running his way into top 3.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [knighty76]
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knighty76 wrote:
AB had about 6 mins lead into T2 and held onto it past 2.25km on the run. Mark Buckingham is a few minutes off the podium in 4th but I bet a good chance of running his way into top 3.Terrible Tuesday’s Triathlon
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [oscaro]
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oscaro wrote:
knighty76 wrote:
AB had about 6 mins lead into T2 and held onto it past 2.25km on the run. Mark Buckingham is a few minutes off the podium in 4th but I bet a good chance of running his way into top 3.35 mins through 10k, he is jogging round! ;-)
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [knighty76]
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Haha actually true for him! Seems like he won't go sub 4
Terrible Tuesday’s Triathlon
Terrible Tuesday’s Triathlon
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [knighty76]
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knighty76 wrote:
oscaro wrote:
knighty76 wrote:
AB had about 6 mins lead into T2 and held onto it past 2.25km on the run. Mark Buckingham is a few minutes off the podium in 4th but I bet a good chance of running his way into top 3.35 mins through 10k, he is jogging round! ;-)
He's a smart racer: on the run he won't push himself any more than he needs to in order to win.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [moonmonkey02]
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Yeah I agree, he already has more than a 6 min lead so I don't think he's too worried. He's prob seeing this as a good warmup/test run for the next race
Terrible Tuesday’s Triathlon
Terrible Tuesday’s Triathlon
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [oscaro]
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oscaro wrote:
Yeah I agree, he already has more than a 6 min lead so I don't think he's too worried. He's prob seeing this as a good warmup/test run for the next raceTerrible Tuesday’s Triathlon
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [oscaro]
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oscaro wrote:
oscaro wrote:
Yeah I agree, he already has more than a 6 min lead so I don't think he's too worried. He's prob seeing this as a good warmup/test run for the next raceHis 01:11:16 run had nice even splits as in very nicely controlled. St. George will be so darn interesting to follow.
Genetics load the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [lovegoat]
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Lets say he wins St George and qualifies for 70.3 Worlds, will he not feature again until the championship race? Or does he plan to go around smashing 70.3 races? Maybe a 140.6 this year? Any insight...
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [Bushehri]
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70.3 this year, 140.6 next. Mebbe.
“My goals changed a little bit for the next few years as I want to find out what I can achieve on the long distance Triathlon after winning two Olympic gold medals in the past. This year the goal is to win the 70.3 IM World Champs and then maybe move to the full long distance. But the Olympics are still back in my head and I don’t want to leave that completely yet. So we will see.”
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Interview with Ali and Johnny wrote:
Alistair Brownlee, 28, will target the 70.3 Ironman World Championships in 2017 before targeting Ironman races in 2018. “My goals changed a little bit for the next few years as I want to find out what I can achieve on the long distance Triathlon after winning two Olympic gold medals in the past. This year the goal is to win the 70.3 IM World Champs and then maybe move to the full long distance. But the Olympics are still back in my head and I don’t want to leave that completely yet. So we will see.”
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Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [Bushehri]
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Bushehri wrote:
Lets say he wins St George and qualifies for 70.3 Worlds, will he not feature again until the championship race? Or does he plan to go around smashing 70.3 races? Maybe a 140.6 this year? Any insight...He won't turn up just for the sake of it: look at his last few years in ITU.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [knighty76]
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He has said he'd race the Leeds ITU this year.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [lovegoat]
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Not a Browlee observation but it was a bit surprising to see Daniela Ryf come third behind Emma Pallant and Lucy Charles. Pallant put in a very nice run of 1:15:34 to move from third off the bike to win. Well done Emma.
Hugh
Genetics load the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Hugh
Genetics load the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [sciguy]
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sciguy wrote:
Not a Browlee observation but it was a bit surprising to see Daniela Ryf come third behind Emma Pallant and Lucy Charles. Pallant put in a very nice run of 1:15:34 to move from third off the bike to win. Well done Emma. Hugh
Apparently she miscalculated the bike laps, got off her bike too early and lost time going back and getting back on to do the final lap.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [splashrunner]
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splashrunner wrote:
sciguy wrote:
Not a Browlee observation but it was a bit surprising to see Daniela Ryf come third behind Emma Pallant and Lucy Charles. Pallant put in a very nice run of 1:15:34 to move from third off the bike to win. Well done Emma. Hugh
Apparently she miscalculated the bike laps, got off her bike too early and lost time going back and getting back on to do the final lap.
I was sure this kind of thing only happened to AGers like me.
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Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [sciguy]
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He ran 71 coming out of T2 with a 6 minute lead? Wow... St. George should be interesting!
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Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [MI_Mumps]
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MI_Mumps wrote:
He ran 71 coming out of T2 with a 6 minute lead? Wow... St. George should be interesting!If you look at his splits he did the run very evenly too so there was no backing off. I'm wondering how hard the bike course actually was compared to say St. George. As you say St. George will be very interesting.
Hugh
Genetics load the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [Bushehri]
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Bushehri wrote:
Lets say he wins St George and qualifies for 70.3 Worlds, will he not feature again until the championship race? Or does he plan to go around smashing 70.3 races? Maybe a 140.6 this year? Any insight...[/quote Lemme fix that for you..
WHEH he wins St George..... (WHEN he wins Worlds !! WHEN he wins....)
Got that !!?? WHEN!.....WHEN!....From now on its WHEN with this BAMF
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [shady]
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True story. This is Kona domination waiting to happen. He can get that done, probably more than once, and still go back to medicine if he wants to. Not too shabby.
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Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [mongooseman]
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ANYONE GOT A BIKE COURSE ELEVATION MAP FOR THIS COURSE???
4:03 isn't crazy crazy fast is it?
4:03 isn't crazy crazy fast is it?
Re: Challenge Gran Can - Brownlee [lovegoat]
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These guys are why I love sports. Freaking Hero's :)
It doesn't have to be - it just has to be faster than everyone else. Anything else is wasted effort and more recovery time. He races very intelligently. He put enough into the few behind him to give him a buffer, then got it done.
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