- We're live from the finish line of the Ironman
World Champs and this is the GTN Show.
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- And now it's the day after the Ironman World Champs
and we have Heather back after absolutely
smashing it out there.
How did you find it?
- I would say it was more a matter of completing it,
but I did get there, it was so hot as you can probably
tell from some of these awful tan lines.
- That's a solid line there.
- Yeah, it's not a good look,
but I'm proudly wearing my medal today.
- That's a big medal as well.
All right well coming up on the show this week,
we will obviously be covering the race here
from the big island and also the unfortunate news
of some pro incidents.
- And of course we've got the usuals such as
TRIDIY and comment of the week.
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- Well we should probably start with a bit
of a recap on yesterday's race.
After breaking the run course record,
a 27 year old course record last year, he went on
to break the full course record this year.
It was Germany's Patrick Lange in a time of eight
hours, one minute and 40 seconds.
- Well the world record's broken on the bike as well.
Australia's Cameron Wurf broke the 11 year record
by over five minutes with a time of four hours,
twelve minutes and 54 seconds.
And actually Lionel Sanders and Sebastian Kienle
went under that old record as well,
so some quick times yesterday.
Well let's go into a little bit more detail
as to what happened in the men's race.
- Well in the swim it was Josh Amberger that
absolutely smashed it, he had around a one minute
20 lead over the rest of the field coming out.
Then we had a big pack including the likes of
Jan Frodeno, Nils Frommhold, Ben Hoffman
and even James Cunnama.
And then around six minutes back from the lead
swimmer we had the uber bikers, we had Boris Stein,
Lionel Sanders, Sebastian Kienle, and out onto the
bike it didn't take long for those uber bikers to
catch that big pack and then it's Lionel Sanders and
Sebastian Kienle that went off the front with Cameron Wurf.
And Cameron Wurf came into T2 in first and about a minute
back, it was Lionel Sanders closely followed by
Sebastian Kienle and Jan Frodeno.
- Well obviously Wurf was first out onto the run course, but
that was short lived, Sanders very quickly took the lead.
Kienle's close behind in second, but it was further
down the pack that you had to watch for the runs.
The marathon course record holder, Patrick Lange,
set off in 11th going into the run, and he was joined by
David McNamee, both incredibly strong runners.
And they started to work their way through the field.
By the half marathon point, Patrick Lange had moved up to
third, Sanders was still leading, and Keinle was in second.
But he made his move at the 23 mile mark and
Patrick Lange went onto the take the win for Germany.
Sanders came home in second for Canada
and then it was third place for a strong
run by David McNamee of Great Britain.
Fourth, it was Sebastian Kienle of Germany,
and fifth place, James Cunnama of South Africa.
Well we're delighted to be joined by
James Cunnama, fith place at the Iron Man World
Champs this year.
Thanks for joining us, James.
If you could possibly talk us through your race and
the race from your perspective would be brilliant.
- Yeah, good day out for me, obviously,
fifth place in the World Championship, can't complain.
It was not exactly a smooth day for me at all.
I struggled my way to fifth place.
I think at this race everybody struggles, no matter where
you finish from first to thirtieth or beyond.
It is a really hard race and it was no different for me,
I really struggled, I had some really bad patches.
- You say that though, but your swim?
- Yeah, very happy with my swim, especially considering
I had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction.
My swimsuit, I think someone must have gotten their
fingers tangled in the cord and pulled it down, but about a
kilometre in I was swimming with it wide open and flapping.
I kinda looked behind me to see how close to the
back of the group I was, to see whether I had time to
pull it up and get back on whoever's feet were at the
back of the group, but no such luck.
(laughing)
So yeah, that made for a bit of a tougher swim, I was
definitely working a few heartbeats higher than I
would have otherwise with that drag.
But still managed to stay on that pack
and was very happy coming out of the water in that pack.
I stayed at the back of that group, trying to find
a rhythm, had a bit of a knee niggle going into the week so
I was trying to let that loosen up and not push too hard.
They also get the concertina effect on the group
where going up the hill they all slow to a crawl and
you kinda jam in the back and have to risk
a drafting penalty, and then they go over the other side.
- And you've gotta catch up, yeah.
- You really surge to stay with them.
So I kinda let that go, I let that yo-yo and they pulled
away and then I caught them again on the next uphill
and just to try and keep my rhythm.
Going up to Hawi, Sebastian Kienle and Lionel Sanders
caught up to the group and Cam Wurf.
And those three obviously went to the front, and
the pace significantly increased.
The last 30Ks of the back I caught up to Jan Frodeno,
he was sitting up a little bit and taking a bit of
a break I guess, I went to the front for a bit just
to keep my rhythm even, Ben Hoffman looked like he was
struggling in our group, Tim O'Donnell had just
dropped off our group, so it was myself, Frodeno, Nils
Frommhold and Ben was hanging a little bit further back.
- Out into the run I saw, well I saw you with Ben
Hoffman and Nils Frommhold and they were hammering it, so.
- Yeah, I started the run, my knee that I was talking
about earlier that was niggling was niggling again
when I started the run and I was a little bit worried
about it, because I knew that if it went, like it had
previously, I would probably be walking and game over.
It was pretty much an all or nothing
kind of injury, you know.
Kept a decent rhythm during the zone called the
Energy Lab, and I was going into a bit of a patch,
as most people do in the Energy Lab, and he even
passed me but I managed to stay with him as we came out
and we ran together at a bit of a doss all the way
back to town, for awhile we were dossing, then we were
kinda working together, trying to hold off whoever
was behind us until the
last three or four Ks.
- Then it's each for themselves.
- And then just before that last hill, yeah,
without saying anything we both knew now we
are racing each other again for a top five
in the world, and I put in a good surge in going
up the last little hill to Palani
and was shouting to the guys next to the road
going where is he, where is he, how far back is he,
you know like, he's 200 metres, you've got it,
don't even worry about it.
And I'm thinking I'm gonna run down Palani
and the last downhill I ran my knee was right there
so I was a little bit worried that I would be hobbling
down Palani, so I was putting as much time as possible.
But yeah, crossed the line 19 seconds ahead of him
in fifth place, and yeah, very very happy.
- Well congratulations.
Thanks very much for joining us, James.
Cracking result as well.
- And moving on to the women's race,
it was Daniela Ryf who made history by joining the
elite club, becoming one of those to have won
Kona more than two times with her third consecutive title.
But it wasn't all about Daniela this time.
Brit Lucy Charles on her debut performance in Kona
led the swim out with Lauren Brandon and they exited
the swim with over a three minute lead.
And those two worked together on the bike,
leaving the rest of the pack with a lot of work to do.
And then Daniela, who led that pack for
most of the bike made the move
and ended up coming into transition just ahead.
- And onto the run it was obviously Daniela Ryf
that was in the lead, but close behind we had
Lucy Charles and she actually did a great job
at maintaining that gap for a long time.
Daniela Ryf starts to ramp the pace up towards the end
to finish with a nine minute gap over Lucy but
an incredible result for Lucy, first time in Kona,
second place, and very young as well.
In third place we had Sarah Crowley who just raced through
the field with Heather Jackson also coming in in fourth.
And with the second fastest run split of the day it was
Kaisa Sali who came in in fifth.
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- Well now we know the real results from the men's race
but last week we asked you your predictions on who is
gonna win the Iron Man World Champs in the men's race.
- Well from the options that we gave you,
fourth came Bart Aernouts, then it was Lionel Sanders
in third, Sebastian Kienle in second, and the majority
had their money on Jan Frodeno as did we.
- Well yeah, I mean we were all wrong.
Patrick Lange surprised us all with a new course
record of eight hours and one minute.
So I guess the question is, is eight hours ever gonna
be broken at Kona for the Iron Man World Champs?
Well, let's put it out there.
Yes or no, put your option in the poll
above Heather's head.
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- It's time for TRIDIY and I'm delighted to say we've got a
special guest, kind of TRIDIY himself, Tyler Butterfield.
Thanks for joining us Tyler.
- Thanks for having me Heather.
- We are interested to know your opinion on some of
these TRIDIYs that we've had sent in.
So Mark start us off.
- To start things off we've got one here from Trevor Clarke,
I think he's maybe a man after your
own heart here, what do you think to this?
- Yeah that is very impressive and looks actually
way better than mine, that's very clean how he set it up.
And I like the refillable front bottle.
I tried something similar on my P5X when I use
the two bottle system, but here in Kona I do just
the standard bottles 'cause of what they give us.
And again, these elastics are to hold the bottles
like this that aren't or the Gatorade bottles that
they give us in the race.
But that is very impressive.
- Cool, well you might recognise this one, Tyler.
- [Tyler] That's shocking.
- [Matt] Well this is Tyler's own bike from yesterday from
the Iron Man World Champs.
You like your Gorilla tape, huh?
- [Tyler] I love my Gorilla tape.
I normally use electrical tape on there but I've started to
like the Gorilla tape.
- So what's your idea behind this,
what are you trying to do?
- So I take 14 gels with me, one every 25 minutes,
and that's probably why I had stomach issues on the
run, I didn't use them all there was a couple left
in the little Bento box.
But yeah, it's done well before, it's got me a seventh
and a fifth so I just stick with what works.
- So you're just trying to make it super aerodynamic,
right, just trying to keep it all tucked in and.
- Yes, my hands cover that, the hands are what make it
aerodynamic, there's nothing aero about that.
- Yeah.
- If you put that in the wind tunnel with no rider,
that is shocking.
I also like all my nutrition straight in front of me.
You do forget sometimes how many you've had.
We don't have a little headphone or a car
where the director can say feed feed feed
every sorta 25 minutes, you have to pay attention to that
or else it comes back to bite you.
- And one thing I did like is how you've attached
your pit stop behind the saddle which you can see just here.
So that's actually something I've always struggled with.
You're trying to find space for it, people pop it here
which probably isn't the most aerodynamic place, and.
- Not when you're spending that much on a bike and wheels.
I always put it under there, it's easy to get to.
I have a little, if you can see that, you do the tape
but that is my undo tape.
- Right.
- You need an exit and then you bend it and pull it out.
- There is some method to it.
- But you leave a little bit of a flap as you go too.
Actually had my GPS, the pros had a GPS that I took
off at the end of the bike when I had a mile.
- So you had it at the back of the saddle?
- I had it right here.
- 'Cause you're going to be fairly like.
- Very far forward.
- Yes, interesting.
- And actually I ripped it off and put it in my pocket
with only a mile left 'cause I didn't want it pushing
on me the whole day.
- Cool.
- Our suits are quite tight.
Again, it looked terrible but if you look at the photos
of me riding, you can't see it.
- You're blocking it.
- Yeah.
- I should learn from you on that Tyler, 'cause in
Chattanooga I had the same GPS and I tied it to my
seat base which you wouldn't have been impressed
with, it just made my seat base wider.
- You're saying that, 'cause in Chattanooga you're like
it's pretty big.
- Cable tied it on, yeah.
- I was like yeah, you want to put it there.
Not anywhere where the wind can hit.
- Nice, well finally we have one here from Mykola Bartosh.
And these are impressive, these are 3D custom printed
risers for their aerobars.
What you think of those Tyler?
- That is awesome and I'll try and get your name right.
Mykola?
- Mykola Bartosh.
- Mykola, I would love you to 3D print something for me.
3D printing sounds awesome.
I made stuff with carbon when I was a kid but
instead of the gaffa tape here, we keep making jokes that
my faring is by gaffa tape because I've used different
brakes that come with the bike.
A 3D printer would solve my gaffa tape problem.
But we were making jokes that they might come on and sponsor
me and I don't even have to print it on my suit, I'm just
gonna stick it on for the bike and the run.
- Well that is some next level TRIDIY for sure.
- Well thank you so much for that Tyler.
And if you guys have some more TRIDIY you want to send our
way, just use the hashtag TRIDIY on Facebook and on Twitter.
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- Now for the triathalon news, I'm gonna start with
some slightly sad and unfortunate news.
A couple of days before the Iron Man World Champs,
we heard that Tim Don had been knocked off his bike by
a car, fracturing his C2 vertebrae, putting him
out of the race, which he was in great shape for.
But more importantly,
we just hope that he is recovering well.
- Yeah we do and there was also sad news throughout
the men's pro race where Matt Russell
got knocked off his bike by a car.
We've not heard the update on his condition,
but we are sending best wishes to both
him and Tim for a speedy recovery.
Well last week on the show we mentioned how
recently retired cyclist Andrew Talansky
has made the switch from pro cycling into triathalon.
He's been out here in Kona to see what it's all about.
But he's been pretty busy 'cause he has just
signed a deal with Canyon, so it's gonna be
interesting to see how he goes next year.
- [Mark] Yeah, I can't wait.
Every year a sea of athletes come out to Kona
for the Iron Man World Champs.
And lots of those use the local 25 metre swimming pool.
Which over the years has started to deteriorate a little.
They've got to pay for the upkeep and the running cost.
So Sebastian Kienle decided he wanted to set up a charity
to raise money for that pool and not just that,
he decided if he came first he would donate,
well he would match that donation value himself
from his prize money.
If he came second, 50%.
If he came third, 33%.
And anywhere else, he would donate 25% of it.
And he came fourth unfortunately,
but that's still 25% of that overall total.
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- It's time for captain competiton
and last week we had a picture of me on
Michelle Bestebee's town bike.
And our favourite comment of the week comes
from James Barry on Facebook who says,
trust me, all of this integrated aero
storage nowadays is just a silly trend.
Baskets are where my nutrition's at.
Well, this week Heather I picked out
a photo of you stroking some tarmac.
- Well, Mark you didn't see how smooth it was.
I couldn't help myself.
- Well please leave your captions in the comments below.
- And James, do send us your contact details
so you can get your free GTN swim cap.
Well that's it for the GTN show out here in Kona.
And what an incredible experience it's been.
- And congratulations to everyone that took part
in the Iron Man World Champs, including you Heather.
- Thanks Mark.
- We were actually out on the finish line at
midnight to see those final finishes coming in
so here's a little piece for you there.
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