XTERRA World Championships

[Boeing]

http://www.xterraplanet.com/maui/index.html

US Tri rules apply. Although I find Xterra people cool as opposed to Tri Guy.
Anyone racing this event?

Any coverage?

Interesting event. ride and Run through Kapalua Resort?

Go Conrad Stoltz!

 

[bc_hills]

http://www.xterraplanet.com/maui/index.html

US Tri rules apply. Although I find Xterra people cool as opposed to Tri Guy.
Anyone racing this event?

Any coverage?

Interesting event. ride and Run through Kapalua Resort?

Go Conrad Stoltz!

There should be a bit of coverage with Lance in it:

http://triathlon.competitor.com/2011/10/news/lance-armstrong-prepares-to-take-on-xterra-worlds_42061

 

[krebs303]

Lance Armstrong running the beach before his second swim lap.

 

[krebs303]

Lance finished 15th

 

[Race Radio]

The Worlds Greatest Endurance Athletetm gets beat by a 15 year old kid?

 

[nowhereman]

Lance finished 15th

Sorry, but he finished 23rd, fading in the run part of the race. After a hard crash on the MTB section that cracked his helmet

 

[bc_hills]

The Worlds Greatest Endurance Athletetm gets beat by a 15 year old kid?

? Are you saying that a kid placed higher than Lance in Maui?

 

[bc_hills]

Here's a link for the results FFS:

http://www.jtltiming.com/results/x-maui11.html

 

[Race Radio]

Here's a link for the results FFS:

http://www.jtltiming.com/results/x-maui11.html

Did you read the results?

17 Gruget, Marvin Division 15 - 19

23 Armstrong, Lance Division Pro

6 places ahead of him.....yeah, we know, Lance's brake was rubbing or whatever the excuse de jour is.

 

[nowhereman]

Did you read the results?

17 Gruget, Marvin Division 15 - 19

23 Armstrong, Lance Division Pro

6 places ahead of him.....yeah, we know, Lance's brake was rubbing or whatever the excuse de jour is.

I'm not making excuses for him, cause I'm not a FAN, but he fell hard, as I said earlier, and cracked his helmet (IOW, hit his head very hard) and this affected his performance in the final run section. He had been in 2nd place (5th in the swim and 5th in the bike legs of the race) up until the 10K running leg of the race. But he faded badly due to being dazed from the crash. make of it what you will.

 

[Race Radio]

I'm not making excuses for him, cause I'm not a FAN, but he fell hard, as I said earlier, and cracked his helmet (IOW, hit his head very hard) and this affected his performance in the final run section. He had been in 2nd place (5th in the swim and 5th in the bike legs of the race) up until the 10K running leg of the race. But he faded badly due to being dazed from the crash. make of it what you will.

He had already been passed on the bike by several riders before he fell. No surprise as in his last race he was passed on a climb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-wnIbXeeDU

The guy has only been retired for a few months, and according to his twitter has been training hard. This is the reality of Wonderboy's natural level

 

[bc_hills]

Did you read the results?

17 Gruget, Marvin Division 15 - 19

23 Armstrong, Lance Division Pro

6 places ahead of him.....yeah, we know, Lance's brake was rubbing or whatever the excuse de jour is.

In the race to be the first to hate on Lance we had two unreferenced posts, one erroneous (claiming he placed 15th), the other vague (a picture of some kid in France with the subtitle, "15 yr old beats blah, blah").

In posting the results I was trying to say facts first, agenda second. I really couldn't care less where or why Lance placed where he did.

 

[lean mean &green]

He had already been passed on the bike by several riders before he fell. No surprise as in his last race he was passed on a climb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-wnIbXeeDU

The guy has only been retired for a few months, and according to his twitter has been training hard. This is the reality of Wonderboy's natural level

serious question, why do you assume he's competing at his natural (clean) level now?

 

[Race Radio]

In the race to be the first to hate on Lance we had two unreferenced posts, one erroneous (claiming he placed 15th), the other vague (a picture of some kid in France with the subtitle, "15 yr old beats blah, blah").

In posting the results I was trying to say facts first, agenda second. I really couldn't care less where or why Lance placed where he did.

I did not claim he finished 15th. I gave picture of the teenager who beat him, that is a fact.

Not my fault the old man got beat by a kid.

 

[krebs303]

Sorry, but he finished 23rd, fading in the run part of the race. After a hard crash on the MTB section that cracked his helmet

Yeah sorry got it off twitter from JuliaPolloreno's Editor-in-Chief at Triathlete magazine live report
Saw this morning 23rd

 

[Boeing]

I didn't expect this to be an anti Lance thread; for the record this was not the intent of the OP. I didnt even know he was in the friggn race.

Getting over on the guy from behind a keyboard is manly though


with that said how do we know he didnt take a golf ball to his dome on the bike route? That course goes right through Kapalua

 

[Race Radio]

I didn't expect this to be an anti Lance thread; for the record this was not the intent of the OP. I didnt even know he was in the friggn race.

Getting over on the guy from behind a keyboard is manly though


with that said how do we know he didnt take a golf ball to his dome on the bike route? That course goes right through Kapalua

Yeah, Yeah, we get it. Never question the myth.

Smart move to hit the head, it will make his "I do not recall" testimony more believable.

 

[BroDeal]

I'm not making excuses for him, cause I'm not a FAN, but he fell hard, as I said earlier, and cracked his helmet (IOW, hit his head very hard) and this affected his performance in the final run section. He had been in 2nd place (5th in the swim and 5th in the bike legs of the race) up until the 10K running leg of the race. But he faded badly due to being dazed from the crash. make of it what you will.

Pushed too hard on the bike then got clobbered on the run. Typical mistake for cyclists that do triathlons. You have to hold back a bit.

 

[AngusW]

Sounds like Armstrong's race is comparable to his performance at the US nationals a few weeks ago which were (IIRC) 4th best swim, 4th best bike, 23rd best run. 100th fastest run at Maui - maybe his running just isn't up to scratch rather than the effects of the bike crash?

 

[Nick777]

I'm not making excuses for him, cause I'm not a FAN, but he fell hard, as I said earlier, and cracked his helmet (IOW, hit his head very hard) and this affected his performance in the final run section. He had been in 2nd place (5th in the swim and 5th in the bike legs of the race) up until the 10K running leg of the race. But he faded badly due to being dazed from the crash. make of it what you will.

Nah, he ran badly because he
1) busted his **** to try to lead the race off the bike
2) he isn't as good a runner as the other guys.

Chris Legh out ran him by 11 minutes, and he's late 30's with a heart condition..

Lance pulled the 'i was dazed' excuse out because he ran poorly.

 

[Nick777]

Yeah, Yeah, we get it. Never question the myth.

Smart move to hit the head, it will make his "I do not recall" testimony more believable.

Did you see who won? Non other than Michale Weiss. We discussed him recently: http://www.news.at/articles/1117/20...humanplasma-kundenliste-kugler-stephanie-graf

It seems a few of the guys he beat weren't too happy:
Jan Frodeno:http://twitter.com/#!/janfrodeno
"On that note, I´m really sorry but I can´t help feel that @dghugo was the first legitimate athlete across the line today! Well done buddy!"

Andi Böcherer:
https://twitter.com/#!/andiboecherer
If you are not clean enough for mountainbiking, can you be clean enough for triathlon ?!?! #fb

 

[veganrob]

Did you see who won? Non other than Michale Weiss. We discussed him recently: http://www.news.at/articles/1117/20...humanplasma-kundenliste-kugler-stephanie-graf

It seems a few of the guys he beat weren't too happy:
Jan Frodeno:http://twitter.com/#!/janfrodeno
"On that note, I´m really sorry but I can´t help feel that @dghugo was the first legitimate athlete across the line today! Well done buddy!"

Andi Böcherer:
https://twitter.com/#!/andiboecherer
If you are not clean enough for mountainbiking, can you be clean enough for triathlon ?!?! #fb

Because they don't dope in Triathlon.

 

[bc_hills]

Yeah, Yeah, we get it. Never question the myth.

Do you even read the posts you respond to? If you think Boeing's last post even remotely suggested what you're taking it to have meant, you're brain damaged.

 

[Nick777]

Because they don't dope in Triathlon.

Do a search of my posts to see what I think about that...

I can name 5 off the top of my head, with many more suspected.

 

[Boeing]

Yeah, Yeah, we get it. Never question the myth.

Smart move to hit the head, it will make his "I do not recall" testimony more believable.

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look ma I'm part of the peloton on cn because I hate lance