i just got an update from the course. weiss blew. potts blew. frodo is still in there, maybe 7 or 8 guys in the front group now: stein, boecherer, llanos, frodo, o'donnell, hoffman, mckenzie, maybe 1 or 2 others.


Hugh, thought everyone was getting that free ride in the pack saving all those huge watts everyone talks about? More guys riding together late in any race, = more blow ups. Dudes dont care about finishing or even top 15, it is race for the money or nothing. Let the back half of the field that was never in the race to begin with collect the places no one really cares about..

DanStu in 3rd place amateur at 87 miles on the bike!

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Dan and others. Just rejoining in late as I had a family engagement to attend. Where do I get the GPS tracker links?

 

So much for DB giving him a paycheck for his cycling effort today.

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Going on about Brian mccrystal being cheered on by the Irish and the UK overall. What a totally ignorant uninformed clown

TOP 10 Pro Men - Thru Bike Split 10 - Vet Cemetery inbound - 12.14->99.51 mi

1 4:46:06 Sebastian Kienle 26:32 27.5
2 4:46:11 0:05 Jan Frodeno 26:29 27.5
3 4:46:13 0:07 Luke McKenzie 26:49 27.2
4 4:46:15 0:09 Boris Stein 26:24 27.6
5 4:46:17 0:11 Ben Hoffman 26:25 27.6
6 4:46:25 0:19 Andi Boecherer 26:41 27.3
7 4:46:42 0:36 Tim O'Donnell 26:52 27.1
8 4:47:23 1:17 Eneko Llanos 27:28 26.5
9 4:48:27 2:21 Michael Weiss 28:38 25.4
10 4:49:01 2:55 Andy Potts 29:06 25.0
11 4:49:04 2:58 Igor Amorelli 28:20 25.7
12 4:49:51 3:45 Marko Albert 28:13 25.8
13 4:49:54 3:48 Terenzo Bozzone 28:15 25.8
14 4:50:33 4:27 Lionel Sanders 27:38 26.4
15 4:51:07 5:01 David Plese 28:11 25.8
16 4:52:24 6:18 Frederik Van Lierde 27:30 26.5
17 4:52:58 6:52 Christian Kramer 28:22 25.7
18 4:53:04 6:58 Bart Aernouts 28:27 25.6
19 4:53:07 7:01 Ruedi Wild 28:28 25.6
20 4:53:09 7:03 Jesse Thomas 29:02 25.1
21 4:53:38 7:32 Matt Russell 28:16 25.8
22 4:53:49 7:43 Kyle Buckingham 28:30 25.6
23 4:53:51 7:45 Ivan Rana 29:11 25.0

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Dev
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LS fading...but still a pretty big group going together.
Elite cyclists hammering it but we'll see what happens on the run.
Very fun.

Everyone been watching Ryf on camera for the past minutes, that is what Moto drafting looks like. They were doing pretty good at staying to the side and back for shots, but that was an in your face or side front for a long time. Just these few minutes wipes out $5000 grand of aero bullshit.. HA!!!

Is the pack in the front pulling away, or Lionel losing ground by slowing down. He's 4:25 down now and from what I read 3 min down at Hawi. Can all these guys keep Kienle's pace. Monty any prediction on Kienle's run time. I am thinking he is banking on a sub 2:50

So much for using the posted data for information.

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Man. Sanders dropping. Thomas dropped back a lot also. Wonder if they backed off to safe some for the run or if they're just cooked.

He came out of the water late. He still could put the fastest bike split down.

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By the way, do you think Potts is blowing up or do you think he's pacing it out and re loading for the run?

Hope Potts is saving for a great run. Love to see him and TO up there again.

2-5min is nothing if u got legs to run ur best imho

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Ryf is a beast.

Hope not to jinx him, but TO hanging too.

"Wonder if they backed off to safe some for the run or if they're just cooked."

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He came out of the water late. He still could put the fastest bike split down
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Weiss was 90 seconds behind Sebastian. He's now nearly 3 minutes behind, while Kienle is leading. My statement stands.

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That's what I am thinking. Some of these guy are probably thinking that they already biked hard enough and at most will enter T2 5 min down, but if they can re load enough, then it's going to be a strong run and most of the guys in the front group will blow.

TO is in a good position in the front group having not "cooked" himself with super fast racing this summer.

The current interview with Andrew:

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Welch sounds like he's having an awkward performance review with his boss.

TO look strong and seems he was smarter this year not taking many pulls on the front (for what i can see)

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The entire event (IM) is like "death by 1000 cuts" and the best race is minimizing all those cuts and losing less blood than the other guy. - Dev

Fading compared to the leaders, not compared to everyone else. I say he lands about 6-8 overall.

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Hoffman is already in good shape and it's been >6 months since his last IM in South Africa. How fast do you guys think he can run?