- [Taren] What's up trainiacs?
In today's weekly Triathlon News Day Tuesday.
Tim Don makes the come back of the triathlon year.
Alistair Brownlee basically trots his way into another win
at the Half Ironman Distance, and hometown hero is made
at the Ironman African Championships.
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- [Taren] What's up triathletes?
Thank you for tuning in
to today's weekly Triathlon News Day Tuesday,
where we cover all of the triathlonisms
from around the triathlon world.
At the end we get into a story from the trainiac community.
Stick around for it, it is everyone's favorite part.
Special announcement, right at the end of the video
we will be announcing a giveaway then.
So, I think the biggest story from this week
coming out of triathlon
is Ironman Distance world record holder Tim Don.
Making a comeback six months
after his nearly life ending crash in Kono
that caused him to be screwed into a halo device,
since that time.
He made his comeback at the Boston Marathon
running 249.42.
His comeback and journey
over the last bunch of months is going to be released
in a documentary by On-running, one of Tim's sponsors,
called man wearing a halo or something like that.
Anyway, it looks really cool and like all things
on this channel, if there is a YouTube video
that you can go and see it will be in the description below.
So, congratulations to Tim.
The winners of the Boston Marathon were
two very interesting candidates that you wouldn't
necessarily expected.
From Japan, Yuki Kawauchi won in 215.58
and was just added to the elite team recently.
He had to make a comeback in the last few miles.
At one point I saw he was in the neighborhood
of about a minute and half down.
He won fairly handedly.
On the women's side, Desiree Linden won
and became the first female American
to win the Boston Marathon in 33 years,
winning in 239.58.
Interesting story about that is that the Linden
is her husband
is one half of Linden and True.
Which is the new coffee company
that has just been started up by our pal Sarah True's
husband, Ben True.
They are Linden and True.
Cool hats got some serious TV time at the Boston Marathon.
In racing Alistair Brownlee won Half Ironman Leo Chell.
In second place, very interestingly, was Craig Alexander.
Now, why this is so interesting is because
Craig Alexander is 15 years older than Alistair Brownlee.
He's even got some of the salt and peppers going on
in his hair.
In the week leading up to the race he said that
his goal for the race was to not be embarrassed by Alistair.
To be just four minutes behind him at that seasoned,
nicely aged, the crowey is at is very impressive.
However, there's something to be kind of looked at there
because Alistair's run was only the fourth fastest run.
Looking at the field in just about any Half Ironman
that Alistair is in I'd say that he is hands down
one of the fastest runners in the Half Ironman Distance.
So, was he just running it in, just enjoying himself,
taking it easy, nursing the injuries that he talked about
at the Commonwealth Games, don't know.
The women's side of the race was won by Agnieszka Jerzyk
who won just a few weeks ago at Half Ironman Tiawon,
and she clocked the time of 419.13, on fire.
The Ironman African Regional Championships
was won on the weekend by hometown hero Kyle Buckingham.
Winning his second full Ironman Distance event
in his career, in a flat time of 813.
Very impressive run that he put he in
after getting off the bike over eight minutes back
from the leader coming into T2 Cameron Worth.
On the women's side Lucy Charles solidified her position
as likely the dominant force coming up
in female Ironman Distance racing.
Winning that event by over seven minutes
and it was a great field.
Second place was Susie Cheetham.
Third place was Lindsey Corbin
and she did not seem to be challenged at all
out there on the course.
Winning wire to wire, the swim, the bike,
and the run.
She didn't see anyone.
She basically raced this race by herself.
Now onto everyone's favorite parts of triathlon
news day Tuesday,
a story from the trainiac community.
Today's story comes from Ben.
Hi Taren, my name is Ben.
I live in Brisbane, Australia.
Starting in 2018, I weighed a 101 Kilograms, 222 pounds.
At 41 years old my body felt older than it should feel
at this age.
My wife Michelle is a runner and in December of 2017
I went to watch her first Sprint Distance Triathlon
and it looked like a lot of fun.
Right then I decided that I would do the Tempta
Try-A-Tri distance at the next Kingscliff Triathlon
this past March.
Just last month.
So, I started training and oh boy was I in for
a rude awakening.
My first swim I had to stop at the end of each lap
in just a 25 meter pool.
My first ride was ten kilometers,
which took me 28 minutes and I was exhausted.
I literally couldn't run around the block.
But, I kept pushing, swimming Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday.
Riding Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday,
and I kept running to a minimum
until my body could handle it.
Not quite three months later and I can now
swim non stop for 300 meters and most swim sessions
are a total of 1200 meters.
I even done a one point eight kilometer open water swim.
My rides are up to 40 kilometers,
and I also now do runs off the bike of about two kilometers
after almost every ride,
and I've lowered my five Kpb to 28.36.
I completed my first triathlon in March in 45.49.
Which is totally surprising me,
placed me first in my age group for the Tempta Distance.
I had such a good time and I'm so excited to complete
my first real triathlon,
that I've already signed up for a Full Sprint Distance
later this year.
I still have a long way to go to get to my goal weight,
but I'm loving the journey so far.
I've realized that you don't have to be in a body
that you don't feel comfortable in.
You really don't, you can really change it,
and it's totally achievable.
Before I started, I thought to myself,
I just can't picture me coming home after
a long day at work and going for a ride.
But, you know what, once you actually start
it's fine you can do it,
and I actually now look forward to it.
Thank you sincerely, Ben and Michelle.
Thank you very much for your story Ben.
I think that this, like all the trainiac stories,
it's very important to share and help motivate each other.
Because, stories like Ben's about the first ride
and the first swim being absolutely awful
are exactly what a lot of us go through.
I went through it, but he kept pushing
and got to his goal, and now he's gonna gon on
to the next goal.
So, good on you Ben and good luck in the next triathlon.
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