Hey all. Thought you might enjoy the videos I brought back from CDL. Good stuff with the swim start and a ton of close up vids of the pros.
Check out Michael Lovato’s dance after his finish.
Go to the infinIT website www.infinITnutrition.com and click on the infinIT TV link.
Enjoy!
Michael
infinIT Nutrition
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cool! wish the viewing screen was a little larger…
Did the “Wrestling with demons” woman ever start the swim? That was hard to watch. You just know there was a great story there.
Dave
Man that was tough to watch live. I felt so bad for that girl. She looked really fit; fit enough to know she put in the time. Sid from Inside Out Sports went down to talk to her for a long time at the waters edge. I wish I was closer I would have tried to help. That video was shot after she had been up on the beach already for 3-4 minutes and had waded back out in the water to hopefully start. We were all pulling for her to start swimming. She looked so alone. Right after I stopped filming a canoe came up and talked to her and she took her goggles off for the last time. She lied on the beach and cried for a long time. Just brutal. If she had just started to swim I think she would not have to live with what she is dealing with right now.
Goes to show the daunting task IM is for some people. For those of us that are too stupid to know it is hard, we are lucky. She is going to have to wrestle that demon for a long time. I would chip in money to pay that young ladies entry fee to see her finish her goal. I know that someone out there knows who she is. I mean it when I say I would help out. I know many people at IM and it would be a hell of a story to see her finish. My heart goes out to her, just brutal.
Some nice videos there. Thanks.
Michael-
I saw that clip too.
Man- I felt sooo bad for her.She obviously had some inner turmoil,and to deal with that at the start of the race is a bit too much.
The mass swim start terrifies a lot of people.
I wish I had a way to help folks that live with this stigma.
Being a swimmer…I love the adrenalin and chaos myself, but, as the seasons pass,I realize more and more how daunting it is for a lot of racers now that the sport is growing,and waves are always packed.
Just wished I could have talked her into it.
For anybody out there with the same problem…just start the swim at the very back of the group.
EVEN if you have to be the last one to get wet!
Its more comfortable in clean water,and the swim time in most distances are fairly generous.
There IS a way to beat this demon.Just take it one small swim start at a time .
SF the thing that was hard was that the swimmers were almost to the turnaround and she still could not pull the trigger. I think she just got spooked and could not compose herself.
I get sound but no pictures. What am I doing wrong?
I would make sure that you have the most rescent version of Quicktime. It is a free download.
I am looking into geting these things to run in Media player, it is much bigger size.