I mean, if you get beat by Sanders… and to think they spent all that money on advertising on his channel, lol.
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Bye Z4…back to z2? 
As it turns out totally over biked.
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Triple threshold is the future 80% of the time.
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Over the last 3 seasons in Ironman branded races Blum has been simultaneously consistent and inconsistent. “If you ain’t first you’re…35th?”
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I reckon that means he will win the 70.3 Worlds in NZ then
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Imo it’s how ITU is raced, it gets in their blood and is hard to shake off - see Ali Brownlee also.
They literally don’t care what position it is if it isn’t first, it’s isn’t first. All out again at the next race, ad infinitum. Ad nauseum in Blu’s case. Ad hospitalum in Ali’s case.
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I mainly agree.
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They have to race like that. Laidlow and blum and wurf. Somehow they have to have a 15 min cushion at t2 in order to have a chance to beat Lange. Unfortunately for them, the swim conditions were fast, and the weather was overcast with little wind. With those conditions, Lange is pretty much guaranteed to win.
Also, we don’t know how much is the bonus for the bike course record. I’m guessing it’s substantial and worth risking the win.
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Some amazing stats by Patrick Lange:
- each of his WC wins has set a course record
- he is the second oldest man to win the Ironman WC, being about 2 weeks younger than Craig Alexander when Crowie won in 2011 (I think Frodeno is now the third oldest man to win the Ironman WC in 2019, being about 3 weeks younger than Crowie?)
- the gap from 2018 to 2024 is the biggest gap ever between consecutive wins by a single athlete
I love seeing Gustav Iden and Sam Laidlow win the last couple of years, but Lange and Frodeno are great reminders that it isn’t exclusively a game for the 20-something phenoms.
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Looks like lionel is back to the drawing board again.
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Winner winner chicken dinner. And same as you, I like him and want him to do well. It will be interesting to hear about how he experienced the race.
Evergreen post.
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As someone who knows nothing about the triathlon world, I though Lionel or Blummenfelt were battling it out for the win 
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Lionel and Kristian did battle it out…in training. Both imploded during the race.
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What are everybody’s thoughts on what caused Blu’s vomiting?
This has become a not uncommon thing for him in races, and in some cases it doesn’t seem to stop him from having a dominating day.
The Norwegians are known for having such calculated approaches in everything, but I was shocked to hear Kristian say that he just started using that stretched out position two weeks prior to the race.
That had me second guessing my assumption that every detail is so calculated, and then it had me wondering if he heard Magnus say that he would be consuming 180g/hr on the bike like we all did and if Kristian just decided to ramp up his levels on race day or just before.
Regardless, I cannot believe his level of grit and determination to finish that race. He had to have vomited darn near a gallon.
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I watched some of Lionel’s blogs while on the trainer. His world seems… chaotic.
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Chaotic would be correct. Lionel having to stop after every run interval and measure his lactate like it’s the “holy grail” of training seems to be a bit much. He was better at the Ironman distance before he started trying to copy all this Norwegian training nonsense.
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Another trend alert I noticed was the lack of aero socks on Sam Laidlow and Magnus Ditlev.
Here’s what they have traditionally used:
And his year they were using no socks and instead were using some sort of TripStrip.
The commentators speculated Sam was using KT tape, but it isn’t KT tape, and even if it was for that purpose, you’d think he’d have aero socks over the top of it. Only reason to not use aero socks is because you have something else that is better.
Kind of makes sense too. You could easily and quickly test different configurations to find the most efficient setup instead of having to have socks custom made. That is shockingly expensive and only helpful if it stays perfectly in place.
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The projection and volume were both impressive… 
As a one-off, I woulda guessed salt water was the cause (especially since it seemed to start relatively early in the bike), but as you note, this is not the first time it has happened.
Maybe he slammed a bunch of calories / drink either in or just as he was leaving T1 in an attempt to “catch up” from the swim expenditure?
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