What inspired you to start triathlon?
I think I just wanted to do something different, something harder. Everyone does marathons and ½ marathons and I wanted to set myself apart. Triathlon wasn’t a well known sport when I was growing up in Scotland, so when I heard about it on TV, it sounded impossibly hard, I [...]
One for all and all for one! at Ironman Austria 2008
Another big problem with the Ironman World Championship is qualifications. With so much illegal drafting in qualification races Ironman Hawaii is not about the best of the best only but it has an uncomfortably large percentage of triathletes who qualified by cheating.
Picture says a thousand words!
This is the last meter of the Ironman Austria 2008 race (that is 225995 meters in total).
It has been a month almost after the race and I digested a lots of impressions and am finally ready to write a report. Ironman race reports can be as large as books so I have decided to summarize it in small sections to make it easy for me to write and for you to [...]
Dejan Patrcevic had an amazing race at Ironman Austria and finished at 5th. He had to overcome a bunch of problems including a serious technical problem with the front chainring (he rode the last big hill on the big ring).
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