Well done to Kat though, pulled away from Haug at the end
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Yeah and what a lovely, humble lady. 
Looks like Ruth Astle and Fenella all in the top 7 or so as well! Not sure where Siddall is. Plus LCB on the sidelines. Strong group of ladies. If only it wasn’t for that pesky Ryf.
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Hahaa. I know it’s alcohol free, but you hear Braden Currie on the podium with their beers ‘Skull’. Then proceeds to down his pint 
ace. Love the kiwis.
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Wurf 41 minutes off the pace. Ineos not doing his triathlon career too many favours
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Yeah, his running had seemed to be progressing pre covid. Although still not to the level where he was truly going to compete against the very best. I will say from recent experience, any slight under preparation in run training / volume is going to get massively shown up on such a lumpy run course
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I disagree. Everyone I know rounds down. The goal is to run under all those landmarks. Running 1:20:00 or 17:00 would both be failures. You need to run a 79:xx which would be sub80, which a lot of people refer to as 79.
If someone tells me they ran 1:47, I know that their precise time was 1:47:xx
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And for the record I swam 30:** and biked 2:28:** to qualify at Staffs 
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I don’t follow the pros much and have given up watching their channel because it’s style over substance but was there a reason that Paula Findlay didn’t race?
Does she race full IM yet? I thought she just raced halves at the mo.
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Could be, I get who does what mixed up these days. She’s certainly capable of going full IMO.
True that
I have run a 2:59:xx
The only problem is that the XX represents just under 400 seconds 
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just thinking again how Blu and the 
are incredible athletes.
Blu has a muscular build, he looks like the guy who delivered my fridge, but he can run as fast as or faster than any featherweight at the end of a tri.
Lionel runs with that unusual asymmetric style, but again, he covers that ground better than almost any one else with supposedly perfect form.
I don’t understand, but it was great to watch.
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Crowie always had a great running style for a ‘bigger’ guy and McCormack was never a lightweight in pro terms.
Look at how ugly Cadel Evans was on a bike, he looked like a drunken spider monkey but winning is winning.
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Blu has similar build to me, he’s clearly not super lean. For me and i am sure others, its really positive the the current best triathlete in the world looks like a normal person
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Ali to win sub 7
Sets up an incredible Kona with sub 7 winner Vs IM world Champ Vs Jan
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11 Male pro DNF
0 Female Pro DNF
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Sounds right - ST said something huge like 90 starting. That number makes 49.
Could have sub 7 winner vs reigning IM/Olympic champ vs reigning Kona Champ vs reigning 70.3 champ……
That’s like Hagler vs Leonard vs Duran vs Hearns in one ring…
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