Looked like a nasty bump to the head, that. Ouch
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And then you read all the mansplainer comments on the video. It’s so unnecessary. I know they’re young and inexperienced cyclists but it makes my blood boil.
I didn’t watch it but as it came down to a run race I am surprised by the winner. She’s come a long way since she was an enthusiastic junior.
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She’d also got a p@nc£ur€ on the way to racking and was clearly nervious throughout the bike, dropping off and having to sprint back on. I wonder if there was still an issue with the tyre
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Is that obfuscation, or some new euphemism made safe for work? 
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Dont upset the p* fairies by spelling it out 
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You’re making it worse…
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Couple of races on this morning.
Ironman 70.3 Aix-en-Provence > https://www.youtube.com/live/nkwdGoX8s_4
Challenge Championship > https://www.youtube.com/live/pq28OFxGPtw
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Caught up on the swim and transition for Aix - the swim out into the sun and the massive run to transition are a challenge, then the exit of T1 is a rough road for a tri bike but then you’ve got a clean 20km ride to the bottom of the first climb. You’re in the shade a lot though so colder than you’d expect.
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Just caught up with yesterday’s mens race, another half decent foot race in the end, great outing by Ben Dijkstra and Matt Stapley coming in 11th also. Rain spoiled it as well. Bike was a procession in the main.
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My husband rode the route back in November in the lovely autumn/winter sunshine. I remember the locals saying “it’s flat”. I lived in the flattest part of France at the time I did it - it’s not flat!
It is a lovely race. The split transition is a bit of a pain and traffic around Aix isn’t great.
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Great results at Aix
And Dickinson can be proud of that imo
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Noticed someone that was part of uni swim team was doing an influencer style week by week training blog into Aix, and constantly talking about wanting to qualify for world champs. Haven’t spoke to him for 10 years and didn’t really read much of it, but didn’t notice the ~20hr training weeks.
Turns out he won the overall AG field in 4:04!
Even more impressive cause he could pretty much only swim 50 and (just about stretch to) 100m and smash the gym back in the day.
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An interesting YT on Hayden Wilde’s recuperation from his bike crash in Tokyo. Some scar on his shoulder from the surgery!!
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Looks like something from a docu-drama about a Victorian doctor 
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On SlowTwits someone has said that the crash was Wilde riding into the back of a bin lorry 
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Yeah he was on pogo physio podcast recently describing it. 40-50kmh on what he thought was an empty last stretch of road before a private bike path, relaxed and looked at his Garmin, then looked back up and only saw the lorry last second. Managed to swerve his bike to miss it but counterbalanced and shoulder directly hit it, coming to immediate stop.
Ouch, and only offered paracetamol in hospital
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I didn’t have much interest in the PTO San Francisco races yesterday but did watch the highlights. Nothing overly exciting other than Knibb got beat on the run by Julie Derron. That was about it I think.
Today is Ironman Hamburg for a pro female race (Kat Matthews is racing). There’s been a 45 minute start delay due to thunderstorms and the weather looks pretty miserable. It’s about to kick off at 7am UK time.
Stephanie Clutterbuck was on the list but pulled out this morning. She would have been at the front of the swim.
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That’s a really long transition run to the bikes. But some good footage of them. Oh, and those helmets… and that stare from Kat.
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