Great Southern Adventure Race
This weekend over 200 extremely fit endurance athletes competed in the inaugural Mountain Designs Great Southern Adventure Race in Albany, Western Australia. Racing in teams of four over two days of competition they covered 250km of varied terrain showcasing the region’s best natural features as they navigated their way by foot, mountain bike, ocean/river paddling and some roping activities. The weather was certainly another factor as athletes had to contend with windy and very wet conditions. This is what makes adventure racing so popular though, battling both the elements and the course.
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Tour of Spain, Winners and Losers
The Tour of Spain reached it's climax on the weekend after a two man fight throughout the last week. But it was a fight that never eventuated because both combatants were on the same team. Team Astana did not go peacefully into the night after their expulsion before the Tour the France. They went very noisily underlining their indignation at being left out. So they did what any good team would do. They stood up and raced hard at the races they were involved in. This latest edition in their book of rage was held on the roads of Spain where once again they dominated the rest of the field. At the conclusion of this race we again cast our eye over this event to find the winners and the losers from this year's Tour of Spain.
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70.3 Muskoka - Crowie's back
The 70.3 parade hit Canada for the first time this weekend with Ontario playing host city. 70.3 Muskoka had a crack field ready to fly as many of the professionals were using this race as their pre Kona tune up. This gaggle of pros was headlined by Lisa Bentley, the darling of Canadian triathlon and Craig Alexander. 'Crowie' was the standout racer last season but has been a little quiet of late. He is being more choosy with his racing as no doubt all eyes in his crew will be clearly focussed on Kona. He might be feeling the pressure to step up to win Kona this year therefore his efforts become more targeted.
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Tour of Spain - our talking points of week two
With all the hype surrounding the comeback of Lance Armstrong it is easy to forget that there is a Grand Tour being raced right now. The Tour of Spain will be looked at by the great man as he always kept a close eye on his rivals and was always across those riders who were in form. He may also be looking at his new team mates to see how their form is. Word is that he will be heading to Astana and of course that team is currently in the middle of one big battle for the golden jersey. We took a look at our five talking points to come from the Tour of Spain this week.
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Viva Wisconsin
There are few things left in the world of athletics to surprise us. We've seen it all before in Ironman racing. Of course we don't take it for granted and still marvel at the speed of the professionals and the courage of the age groupers. That, as always, is a given. But at Ironman Wisconsin today something truly remarkable did happen. The tables were turned on convention and those that once scoffed at the idea of backing up Ironman races must now surely be re visiting this in their minds as a normal day of Ironman racing was suddenly turned on its' head because of two athletes.
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