Let’s talk Matty Ice: ICYHOT has been training all winter, living like a monk and now it’s paying off. He swam like a dolphin without a tail, biked liked the wind blows, and started out the marathon like he was running a 10K and ended like he was running a 100K. Pure guts brought him across the finish line of his first Ironman in an amazing 12th place. He might have well been a lead singer in a boy band because the girls were going crazy. Two girls approached me to ask about him and I simply told them, “you girls better get in now because his stock is going through the roof!”
Lets talk Corbin: She put on a clinic. I haven’t looked at her spits but from a spectators viewpoint it went as follows. Lindsey went out a bit hard on the bike but let off a little toward the end and gave up the lead to save some energy for the run. In the run she slowly chipped away at the leader (I don’t know names) and from what I could tell her splits never varied. It was like a wolf slowly wearing out its prey. She took the lead with a few miles left, never looked back, and shattered the course record in the process. A damn fine race!
Lets talk Jenson: Terminator swam like a dolphin missing most of its tail. Once on the bike Jenson looked unreal. He had no one in sight the whole bike and still turned in the third fastest bike split. If you want to see pain and guts take a look at some of Adam’s run photos. I have never seen the terminator in as much pain as he was in this weekends marathon. Only Terminator can go to dental school 100 hours a week for four years and still get 9th in the pro field. Ballsy performance!
Lets talk Full Throttle Sam Schultz: First national series XC win! A huge performance from the tenacious Missoula badger. He’s been training with the crazy eye over the last couple of months and it's paying dividends. Somewhere on that Wisconsin race course there is half a throttle lying in the grass where Sam broke it off past full!Doug "ironfan" Dale
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