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My Week in Triathlon
My triathlon thoughts and learnings over the last week. Hit reply if you have feedback…
Challenge Vansbro: Full Results here
Bergsten did the damage on the bike and got to T2 8min ahead. Trautman’s race was similar except Kallin was with him in T2.
Women🥇 Anna Bergsten (04:10:02) 🥈 Justine Guerard (04:16:54) 🥉 Sonia Bracegirdle (04:17:17) | Men🥇 Matt Trautman (03:34:59) 🥈 Robert Kallin (03:39:53) 🥉 Jorgen Gundersen (03:40:26) |
Challenge Walchsee: Full Results here
Buckingham used a 2min lead in the swim to stay ahead until 8km into the run. Thek started the run 4min behind and whittled this down to 90s in the first 9km - disaster then struck in the form on a hamstring injury forcing a DNF. Funk bridged a 1min deficit in the swim and rode with the front pack until he broke away with 30km to go on the bike. He started running with a 3min lead over Bishop who was unable to catch him.
Women🥇 Imogen Simmonds (04:13:42) 🥈 Lucy Buckingham (04:15:04) 🥉 Lucy Byram (04:18:52) | Men🥇 Fred Funk (03:41:30) 🥈 Tom Bishop (03:43:00) 🥉 Jan Stratmann (03:44:23) |
Andorra 70.3: Full Results here
Gentle opened up a big gap on Pallant-Browne on the bike (I saw Emma chose to ride a road bike which maybe enhanced that gap). Gentle and Pallant-Browne matched each other on the run just with the 7min bike gap separating them. Short course Schomburg had a yo-yo battle with Frodo…several times on the bike he managed to gain a few minutes only to relinquish them…possibly technical descents causing the separation. Schomburg left T2 with a slight lead and ran hard, but Frodeno soon reeled him in and never looked back.
Women🥇 Ash Gentle (04:59:32) 🥈 Emma Pallant-Browne (05:06:06) 🥉 Daniela Kleiser (05:15:20) | Men🥇 Jan Frodeno (04:25:47) 🥈 Jonas Schomburg (04:28:39) 🥉 Jordi Montraveta Moya (04:32:50) |
Les Sables D’Olonne 70.3: Full Results here
The ladies race seemed all but decided with Morier having a almost 3min lead going into the run. Clavel caught her at about the 14km mark. On the men's, the Italian Ceccarelli pushed hard on the bike and had a 90s gap over Chevalier. The lead had changed by 5km of running. Le Corre struggled with cramps giving him a relatively disappointing result.
Women🥇 Charlene Clavel (04:23:24) 🥈 Emilie Morier (04:25:42) 🥉 Lisa Gerb (04:26:15) | Men🥇 Leon Chevalier (03:46:11) 🥈 Arnaud Guilloux (03:47:28) 🥉 Pierre le Corre (03:50:31) |
Ironman Germany: Full Results here
True and Rebecca Clarke had a 6min lead from the swim. Sara Svensk and Moench were power on the bike coming into T2 with a 3min gap over True. Moench ran really well but True managed to make the pass for the lead at around 33km.
Women
🥇 Sarah True (08:54:53)
🥈 Skye Moench (08:57:30)
🥉 Agnieszka Jerzyk (09:02:53)
Other Bullets:
Le Tour: The Tour de France started with a BANG on Saturday with a significant climb on the first day. Pogacar and Vingegaard matched each other but there was a special moment seeing the Yates twins breaking away together and coming first and second.
Laidlow Saddle: Not amazingly interesting but I found it strange. It looks as though Sam Laidlow is riding a non-tt specific saddle - possibly the Fizik Arione (that I used to ride for many years). Have a look at this GTN video at the 30s mark here and let me know what you think.
PTO Strategy: Similar theme to last weeks french article by Trimes, Ali Brownlee shared an article by City Am reporting on where the PTO are trying to take Triathlon. Some heavy hitters involved. Article here.
Roth Recap: Triathlon Dan on Youtube shared a great video of his experience doing Roth as an age-grouper. I happened to be in my indoor trainer during the Solar Hill craziness which was epic. Video here.
Stroke correction hierarchy: I stumbled on a post by Paul Newsome from Swim Smooth and he’s got a very clearly articulated list (with resources) on what to focus on first when correcting your swim. List here and you can click on each one to read the details.
Quote: “Action changes our lives…but the story we tell ourselves enables that action.” - Seth Godin. So NB to tell ourselves a story that enables us rather than self sabotages us!
Data
So many factors make this nothing more than a fun exercise but I wanted to see how the winning times for Kona and Roth have changed using 2010 as a base year. Roth is a Challenge (pun) to compare due to clear outliers - I even excluded 2021 due to the course being 15km short.
PTO changed Daniela Ryf’s profile picture to a goat after her Roth performance!
Yours in low CdA,
Aero MaccaFrodownlee
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