We are another day closer to the 2011 Ironman Hawaii and it was another busy day. The highlight of the day though clearly was the annual slowtwitch Kona gathering.
Along those lines we'd like to extend a huge thanks to Cytomax for hosting the event, a big thank you also to blueseventy for the beer and Endurance Conspiracy for the food. We also had great raffle items courtesy of Quarq, LeMond, Scott Sports, Zipp, blueseventy, Specialized, Oakley, SaltStick, 110% Play Harder, Coffees of Hawaii, TorHans, Fizik, TriBikeTransport, Zoot, Cobb Cycling and Cytomax.
All images © Herbert Krabel / slowtwitch.com
Somehow this pair of shoes looks out of place at the Kona pier.
Busy morning at the Coffees of Hawaii floating coffee bar.
Everything you might need after the swim is right here.
Prepping the famous mule early in the morning in the Cervelo booth.
Jordan Rapp before stepping on stage in Kona to talk about World Bicycle Relief.
These Don Joy braces look quite interesting.
Have you got pants? Underpants that is for tomorrow's underpants run.
Chris Adels from SRM attaches a SRM telemetry device to the Cannondale Slice RS of Michael Weiss.
Michael Weiss appears ready to ride.
And he is quickly up to speed.
Joe Gambles before his autograph session in the Louis Garneau booth.
A cool Betty Design Kestrel was unveiled in Kona.
Compressport is nicely represented in Australia and is now trying to get a foothold in the USA.
Athletes in Kona seemed to be willing research objects for University of Connecticut’s Korey Stringer Institute.
The mule in the Cervelo booth looked more like a machine later in the day.
The slowtwitch gathering in Kona drew quite a crowd to the Cytomax / Muscle Milk house..
Sofie Goos and the whole Belgian Uplace team came to the gathering.
Alicia Bockel and her friend Libby Bergman at the party.
This man won some very cool shades from Oakley.
Austen Trimble though scored the biggest prize. He walked away with a Scott Plasma 3 frame set and 8 pairs of shoes from Scott Sports, and got to meet Norman Stadler.
