Well, my Sunday is shot . . . this is way too entertaining. Matt's 1:08 swim is actually more impressive (to me) than his blistering bike. Gave back two minutes in T2, but he is a fast, super tough runner. Pretty impressive rookie stuff. And even though Peter came out of T2 in 21st, he's only a few minutes out of the money, and he's capable of going 3:20. As for JW, I just wrote the check - just need to calculate how many bets I'm losing to fill in the amount. Betting against him is stupid. And expensive.
Me too Mike! OK, now it suddenly occurs to me that Withrow somehow has to bike up the Helix!!! Side bets on if he walks it? Wish we had the 80 miles splits, I'm watching the T2 live feed and would LOVE to see Withrow had off that monster to a volunteer bike catcher!
I have to reconsider thinking on doing this race next year, if i don't beat JW by X, he's gonnna have me donating to his fund. Well said Mike! Pulling for Peter. Assuming Matt managed the bike well and got good nutrition in, he should pick up a couple of places on the run...
I figured out that John was off the bike about 1:08 after Rich, and Rich was on the video at around 1:00, so there ya go:-) I saw a couple of other ENers but not sure who. I am certainly getting NOTHING done today!!
OK- and here's what's really sick badass. Withrow actually moved UP 2 positions in his AG with that bike!!! And it's not like he had a shotty swim either!
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Well said Mike!
Pulling for Peter.
Assuming Matt managed the bike well and got good nutrition in, he should pick up a couple of places on the run...
The EN Chica's are pulling strong too. Lauren is off the bike now too and moved up from 25th to 13th!!
You can see Withrow AND his fat bike in T2 at 2:08-ish on the transition video! He looks GREAT!! You can't miss that bike:-)
Plenty of a$$ kicking across the board :-)
Thanks Carol! I was scanning that feed and couldn't find him! That was excellent, all the volunteers pointing in amazement!
(was trying to respond to Nemo with this...)
I also donated to JW -- Homeboy has MVP in my book for sure.
Best I can tell from the IM Tracker, I think Rich has slipped into 2nd place behind Selles by roughly 6 minutes
Crap, make that 3rd, looks like Ronko is ahead by a minute, and Lanza is breathing down his neck in 4th about 1 min back.
JW getting some traction on ST!
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Forum_F1/Whos_got_money_on_this_guy_at_IM_WISCONSIN_P5692676/
Matt Aaronson's injury looks like it may have effected his run ... hope he is OK and doing NO harm