I think he has some venom stored up. Wants to make a statement. First to break 8 hours in Kona?

Why did they put Michelle (sp?) back in the booth!? She just doesn't seem to have a very smooth delivery... to say the least.

how are you getting the running order? just from watching the feed?

Lieto's been caught.

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Huh?

"In the lead group of men right now we have Alexander, Vanhoenacker, Al-Sultan, Raelert. 10 seconds behind them is Chris Lieto."

That's what they are reporting..

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nevermind, i didn't have the ironmanalive site up so i wasn't reading the updates

face/palm

i thought three open windows was enough
;-)

The running is what we are speculating, since the fast runners are biking in FRONT together...

Caught and passed. Wow.

Jacobs and Henning are gaped. They're about 1-1.30min behind the front group

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Chrissy passed Mirinda at the turn!

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Yes, ironmanlive. Using the news feed/ticker as it is a couple minutes ahead of the video

assuming she is injured from her crash i'm surprised she started...she didn't last year

Wow, Ironmalive blog reports that Chrissie passed Mirinda

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In case you were wondering...

A lot less power spikes up over 300 and 400 for the men now. Regardless of what the announcers are calling, most top male pros are averaging 250-300 for the entire ride. Maybe 3-5 of them riding low 3s. Weiss, Lieto etc. Don't think that a small, aero, well positioned male can't have an excellent bike at less than 250 average watts. i.e Cam Brown.

Nice! Didn't see that.

writing your family members names on the helmet is the key for a fast bike ride ;-\)

hold this pace? he's pumping the same watts as before...must be the new bike :) (I have no idea what power he's pushing, but I bet its close to what he's done in the past)

His new equipment likely is saving him at least 15 watts or more than .5 mph. At least. Alexander for the W today.

Don't think so. He said he was going to push on the bike more this year. Also didn't want to get stuck in a group behind fast runners where everybody expected him to close every gap for 112 mile...

Did anyone else just lose their feed to the race?

yup. Annoyed...

yes
the shakes have set in already

Anyone else just lose feed?

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Yep