Tom,
You have to work on your transitions. You could have taken him with the :44 sec you lost in T1 and T2 (if I read the results right). Meant nothing on the day, but its fun to tease a buddy with something like that 6 years later after he’s become an ironman stud.
Keith
Don’t tell him that now. It’s those kind of niggles that haunt my races long after the seasons have changed !!!
Hey david- spoke to my buddy Dwayne at Cervelo this morning: P3C’s in 54 next week I am told. Including mine!
I, on the other hand, sit at a desk and type and measure inseams…
insert obligatory inseam-measuring joke here…
that’s pretty cool, though. Kinda fun to save those old race results and find the names in later years.
I came back to tri’s after a lapse in the 90’s, on the TNO site I posted my Boulder Peak report right under Gordo’s… I think he had a pedestrian 2:15 or so that year. I’m not saying what I did…
I was cleaning out my upstairs at my house. It is being gutted and remodelled starting next week.
But Tom, I think you would take him, one on one, mano a mano, if you get my drift. ;
Think about it - Byrn is a pretty boy from Vancouver with a tri hottie girlfriend, he’s an expert in ‘venture capital’ (wha’dat?) and esoteric training regimes. You, on the other hand, are a straight talking monastic mid westerner with a mysterious past and a bike fetish.
Demerly in three, TKO, no question.
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Think about it - Byrn is a pretty boy from Vancouver with a tri hottie girlfriend, he’s an expert in ‘venture capital’ (wha’dat?) and esoteric training regimes. You, on the other hand, are a straight talking monastic mid westerner with a mysterious past and a bike fetish.
I’ve often wondered the same thing. What the hell is venture capital?!? Is it one of those made-up things, like when someone tells you they are a “consultant”?
-C
There’ve gotta be some political differences as well. Surely Gordo doesn’t have a framed photo of W. on his desk!!
No, Gordo is a big guy and I’m old and frail. He would prolly pound me.
Cool coincidence. Last month in the “Best IM Time” thread, Kagemusha and I discovered that we finished very close at Kona in '91, both in 11:05:xx. But I couldn’t remember my exact time. This thread prompted me to dig out the results book to see if we finished consectutively. And the result…
Me: 545 M 30 1:05:39.8 409 5:36:08.8 324 4:23:25.5 675 11:05:14.1
Kagemusha: 546 M 33 54:16.5 72 5:50:24.3 495 4:20:49.7 654 11:05:30.5
Those are both awesome Kona times. My Kona PR is over an hour higher at 12:24:36 in 1986. Of course, in my feeble defense, we didn;t have aerobars or race wheels back then… It was old school. (and so am I).
Kona, '86, I was just a little boy.
Tom,
Cool shot. I’ll have to dig out my picks from IMH '89.
I know that it’s hard for the folks these days to believe this, but back in the late 80’s IMH was still a very obscure race, even in the triathlon world, that when you were there, it felt like this small sports club for crazed fitness fanatics. Of course, it’s evolved to something more than this, with-in the triathlon world, but outside the tri-world many still see it as small sports club event for crazed fitness fanatics!
Fleck
P.S. Loved the endless, free Bud-lite beer back in those days!
Tom,
I see you’re going to Bussleton in November. I’m hoping to be there too. Maybe you could give me some bike fit advice when I rack my bike?!
Make sure you bring your tape measure. Compact version will be fine - I have short legs! ;-).
JC
What the hell is venture capital?!? Is it one of those made-up things, like when someone tells you they are a “consultant”?
-C
Not at all, venture capital is a seriously cutthroat business… talk about mental toughness. Basically they compete to lend money to startup companies, or buy existing companies and turn them around. We were bought by a VC company which expected a 20-25% annual return on their capital investment, and they by golly got it. The pain was considerable…
All this nonsense about Gordo as an ‘ordinary guy’ neglects to account for his VC background. Lots of smart, talented, hardworking people spend their careers at it, with making partner in a VC firm as their life goal - G did it by the time he was 30. That tells you a bit about his focus. The mental aspect in endurance events is huge…