- What's up Trainiacs?
Welcome to this week's Newsday Tuesday,
which if I do say so myself might be the most exciting
Newsday we've ever had.
Terenzo Bozzone encounters a truck, very drastically.
There are doping scandals going on in the world of
endurance sports and we have some of the most exciting
full Ironman distance racing to ever be live streamed.
Stick around.
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So Triathletes welcome to this week's Triathlon
Newsday Tuesday where every single Newsday we go over
all of the triathlons going on around the world.
Make sure you stick around to the end where we do
everyone's favorite part of Triathlon Newsday Tuesday
that is a story from the Trainiac community
and as always links to everything that I talk about
will be in the description below.
Let's start off with the unfortunate news of Terenzo Bozzone
who has had one of the best 2018s of any pro triathlete
on the circuit racing a number of times, winning
back to back to back.
Unfortunately that came to an end last week as he
was struck by a car.
He rushed to the hospital and initially checked in
in serious condition.
Later that day he was upgraded to stable.
Now apparently the driver of the truck pulled over
to see what was happening and then immediately sped off.
So very sorry to hear that this has happened to Terenzo.
We haven't unfortunately heard a lot from Terenzo
or his family, so wish him well and hope that he's
doing okay.
Now in doping scandals, Chris Froome, over in the
Tour de France, I know it's another sport, but
it's Tour de France time.
Let's talk about it.
He has been undergoing court proceedings for a failed
drug test that's happened over the last couple of years.
Now at the very last minute,
basically right up until the time that Team Sky would
have to decide whether Chris Froome would be able to go
into the Tour de France or not, he was cleared of that
failed drug test.
Now before you say that there's a lot of fishiness going on,
Lance Armstrong actually commented on this.
He's got a fair bit of experience in just this thing
and he said that he had all the money in the world
and even Lance Armstrong wasn't able to get out of
his court proceeding so he didn't believe that
anything like that was going on with Chris Froome.
Chris Froome however did not get off Scott free
because as he was rolling in to the team's presentation
a couple days prior to the start of the Tour de France,
he was booed and whistled at by the crowd.
They do not like him very much.
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- In short course, the fast folk, ITU Racing, they announced
their world Triathlon series calendar of events for 2019.
It features a lot of the same events that we've seen
over the series in the past three years or so.
There are eight events starting in Abu Dhabi,
wrapping up at the Grand Final in Lausanne, Switzerland.
In Half-Ironman racing, Ironman 70.3 Ecuador was won
by Igor Amorelli in 3:52:30 and our pal, Lauren Brandon
won the women's race in 4:22:52.
Half-Ironman Jonkoping happened over the weekend as well
with Florian Angert winning the men's race in 3:50:51
and 2012 Olympic silver medalist
by just the width of the saddle sore,
Lisa Norden won in 4:18:17.
But the big news in Ironman distance racing was the
European championships held in Frankfurt.
This was pitting Jan Frodeno against Patrick Lange.
We got a little bit of a grudge match going on there.
And then on the women's side Daniela Ryf was squaring
off against Anne Haug and Rachel McBride who have had
fantastic seasons.
Sarah Crowley who placed third on the podium in Kona
and behind Ryf and Sarah True who has made a really
big storm onto the scene in long distance racing.
She was making her debut at the full Ironman distance race.
So this was shaping up to be amazing and on top of it all,
we got to watch it live, streamed on Facebook.
They did a fantastic job of covering this race.
In the end, Jan Frodeno won the men's race in eight hours
flat, 58 seconds, clocking a 2:39:06 marathon in which
he basically gained the entire distance of the marathon
on Patrick Lange.
Now keep in mind that Lange broke the run course
record in Kona and was looked at as one of the best
runners in full Ironman distance racing.
Jan Frodeno making that statement of outrunning him,
that's pretty profound here.
And before you say that eight hours is not a very fast
time the course did feature five additional kilometers
of a bike course, going 185 kilometers.
On the women's side Daniela Ryf, Daniela Ryf, Daniela Ryf
holy smokes, Daniela Ryf won in a time of 8:38:34
which placed her seventh overall amongst the men as well
and almost 27 minutes ahead of second place, Sarah True.
Congratulations to Sarah for making such an awesome
half-Ironman debut.
Congratulations to another Sarah, Sarah Crowley for
rounding out the podium and finishing third.
Now a quick update on Triathlon Taren Podcast,
which just so happens to be the highest rated triathlon
podcast in the world because we have had excellent guests
over the last year, like Sarah Crowley and Sarah True.
We just released one of the first interviews that Matt
Russell has done publicly since his crash in Kona
that nearly killed him,
his return to Ironman distance racing,
and we released that podcast on Sunday.
So go check that out.
Over the past week we did two podcasts while I was
down in Los Angeles, one with Michael Collins,
who is a coach down there and our very first two-time
guest, Jerry Rodriguez, both of them are very swim
instructional focused podcasts, getting away from that
kind of storytelling with the background of these coaches.
We got right into the meat of things.
So if you're looking for some good triathlon swimming
knowledge, make sure you subscribe to the Triathlon Taren
Podcast, wherever you get your podcast
so you don't miss those two episodes.
Now let's get into everyone's favorite part of
Triathlon Newsday.
Now this is a story from the Trianiac community.
Today's comes from Mike Wiggington and he's sharing
a story about his mom, Mickie.
He says, Hey, Taren, I did my first sprint triathlon
at age 12.
My mom, Mickie, was there to cheer me on.
I'm now 34 and have done quite a few tris over the years
and my mom has never missed a single one.
My mom is 64 and has always struggled with her weight,
but last year, I talked her into getting a new bike
and she quickly started increasing her mileage until
one day she asked if I thought she could
finish a triathlon.
Without hesitation I told her that I knew she could.
For the past year she's been training diligently,
getting faster and losing weight, but within that
she's faced quite a few setbacks, a broken collarbone
first, then a torn meniscus, and she broke the other
collarbone all while working two full time jobs,
as well as being a full time caregiver for my
grandparents and a grandmother to eight kids.
I knew she wouldn't be qualifying for Kona,
but I was confident that she would finish her first race.
That race was this past Saturday.
She did better than she could've hoped.
Her goal was simply to not be last,
and finish under two hours.
Well she beat about 25 other people and finished
in 1:50, also getting on the podium, placing second
in her age group.
This race also turned out to be a family affair
as my 15 year old nephew completed his first Olympic
distance race, I finished my race in two hours,
thirty minutes, winning my age group and staying in
my first top ten.
My three sons also competed in the kids' tri the
day prior.
Most importantly my mom is hooked now, already looking
for another tri to enter later this summer.
As you can tell from the pics, my mom also
embroidered us all matching bright neon race day
sweatshirts which say unless you puke, faint, or die,
keep going.
I like your style Mickie.
I hope you can pass this on and get some inspiration
into the rest of the Trainiac community.
Thank you for the inspiration as well
because it keeps us all going.
Thank you Mike and thanks Mickie.
Congratulations, that is awesome.
I wanted to share this because two things:
number one, Mickie that's awesome taking up triathlon
at any age is totally doable and you're proving that
and inspiring a lot of Trainiacs.
So thank you and good job.
And the fact that this is a family event is a perfect
example of how great triathlon is for tying not just
people together with friends, training partners,
but also with the rest of the family.
So that's awesome.
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