Ironman France 2008 by Nic Kinsley
Friday, July 4th, 2008Nicolas Kinsley wrote a nice report from Ironman France 2008 for my South African triathlon website TriCape.com.
Nicolas Kinsley wrote a nice report from Ironman France 2008 for my South African triathlon website TriCape.com.
Here are initial results from Ironman South Africa 2008. Bella Camerford and Stephen Bayliss have won. IronCrazy.com author Robin Frankland placed well at 31st.
Pro Female
1. Bella COMERFORD 9:27:48
2. Edith NIEDERFRINIGER 9:27:53
3. Lucie ZELENKOVA 9:34:09
4. Cordula MOLLER 9:59:34
5. Kathryn CRONJE 10:00:13
6. Caroline KOLL 10:05:03
7. Anne-Marie DUPONT 10:07:37
8. Amber MONFORTE 10:12:07
Pro Male
1. Stephen BAYLISS 8:18:23
2. Raynard TISSINK [...]
Last weekend I visited Stellenbosch and stayed over at Dan Hugo’s (dghugo.com) place. We did a brick together on Saturday during which I super dehydrated, but the next day I had an awesome 4 hour bike on the rolling roads just outside Stellenbosch.
Ironman South Africa 2008 will take place on 13th April. Organizers promisse less wind. Read more about it at TriCape.com.
It is not obvious but Ironman South Africa is one of the tougher races you can do. I have not done any other Ironman races yet but I am sure of this. Lanzarote and UK and Zurich have the hills and maybe some wind, but the Port Elizabeth combination of waves, hills and killer wind [...]