Thek and Moody challenge the podium at Wanaka

Hello! You're reading Aero Oats! The Triathlon newsletter especilly curated by me - Aero MaccaFrodownlee to read while you eat your morning Oats.

Today’s newsletter contains:

• Battle Scars: Challenge Wanaka

• Shaved Legs: Ironman New Zealand, Ironman South Africa

• Social Stalk: Henri Schoeman

• YouTube: Jenna & Miguel, Sebastian Kienle, Daniel Baekkegard

• Toys: Next % 3, PTO Points Calc

• Tri AI: Ancient Greek Triathlete

• Tri Meme: Economics of Tri

Battle Scars

Challenge Wanaka - 18th February

Women’s Results (SOF: 63.1)

1. Grace Thek: 04:32:30

2. Els Visser: 04:34:59

3. Rebecca Clarke: 04:40:04

Men’s Results (SOF: 68.62)

1. Jack Moody: 03:58:01

2. Mike Phillips: 04:00:22

3. Sebi Kienle: 04:02:57

Shaved Legs

Ironman New Zealand - 4th March.

Featuring: Braden Currie, Sebi Kienle, Jan van Berkel, Cam Brown, Hannah Berry, Rebecca Clarke, Ai Ueda, Merideth Kessler

Ironman South Africa - 5th March.

Featuring: Laura Philipp, Fenella Langridge, Leon Chevalier, Clement Mignon, Brad Weiss, Ali Brownlee, Matt Trautman, Cam Wurf, Michael Weiss

Social Stalk

Henri Schoeman showing us that professional triathletes also “Work From Home”! Here he lets us know how important it is to have a support crew with Mom (babysitting), Dad (coaching/pacing) and daughter (cheerleading/inspiring) all chipping in to his effort to beat the world’s best. South Africa is notorious for not having sufficient support structures for their elite athletes so it’s always special to see Henri performing at the highest level. Let’s hope his bad luck is behind him!

 Click here to follow Henri.

Youtube

• Jenna & Miguel. I’m relatively new to this channel but have enjoyed some of their videos so far. The one below stood out to me where a big crew went to Kona to support their friend. Why did it stand out…their friend saying “it’s gonna be a good day!” while on the marathon in Kona!

• Sebastian Kienle takes us through his race at Challenge Wanaka in New Zealand. This video is notable for its epic cinematography (especially on the swim) as well as somehow capturing how fast these pro triathletes run - it unfortunately often looks like they are just “jogging” yet they flying at like 3:30/km! I must admit I can’t help but feel quite sad following his “Discontinued” tour. Click below to watch:

• Daniel Baekkegard shows us a training day while on camp in Lanzarote. The venue looks amazing so I can see why so many athletes use it. I always enjoy listening to the banter between the athletes. Daniel clearly has some ball skills but just couldn’t get a break while casually trying to knock the ball around the Padel court! Click below to watch:

Tri Toys

• Nike Vaporfly Next % 3: the new Nike super shoe has been released. The Vaporfly range seem to be more popular than the Alphaflys so expect to start seeing these in T2 soon.

• PTO Points Calculator: Yours truly spent some of the weekend building the new PTO points model into a website. You can play around with it at www.aerooats.com. The aim is to make input as easy as possible but allow an athlete to tweak the inputs based on “possible outcomes” and see how that could have or will effect the points.

Tri AI

Show me an Ancient Greek doing a Triathlon:

Tri Meme’s

Here are the meme's for this week. Check out my instagram for context:

That's it for today, now finish your oats and get back to training!

Yours in low CdA,

Aero MaccaFrodownlee

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