2013 Challenge Roth – day 3

Saturday in Roth is bike check-in day and starting at 1pm a constant flood of athletes poured into T1 to drop off their bikes and helmets for the big race tomorrow.

2013 Challenge Roth – day 1

The DATEV Challenge Roth team has been busy the last few months and now the race is upon us with racers now arrived in town and the expo getting busy.

Amanda Stevens tunnel time

Amanda Stevens flew to the A2 Wind Tunnel in NC to meet up with Mike Giraud from Blue bicycles to get fitted and fine tuned on her new race bike.

2013 XTERRA France

Nico Lebrun of France and Helena Erbenova of the Czech Republic won the challenging course at XTERRA France; Photo Gallery by Dave Nicholas.

Llanos, Pedersen rule Frankfurt

Eneko Llanos had an impressive sub-8 performance at the European Ironman Champs in Frankfurt while several other favorites faltered. Camilla Pedersen ran down Jodie Swallow in her first Ironman outing and recorded a very fine sub-9 time.

The Weekend Box Jul 07 2013

In this issue of The Weekend Box we look at the 2013 Celtman Extreme Scottish Tri, Ironman 70.3 Haugesund, the return of The Man, XTERRA France and a new Challenge event in North America.

Stimpson supreme at Kitzbühel

Jodie Stimpson joined Alistair Brownlee in giving the British a monopoly on gold medals on the fiendishly steep hills of the Kitzbühel WTS course; surprisingly, Stimpson had the bigger margin of victory.

Alistair Brownlee tops Kitzbühel

Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee made the brutal climbs of Kitzbühel look easy, completing the maximum 22.3 percent section on the bike and a similarly steep run in 55:24 with a 36 seconds margin over Mario Mola.

Leslie Sanderson’s 7 seconds

Age grouper Leslie Sanderson from Ottawa was the second fastest age grouper at Ironman 70.3 Mont Tremblant - by 7 seconds. Now where were those 7 seconds lost? We checked in with this fast 46-year old.