Follow Jackyback Here!

El Director

Well just over 6hrs to go now until the start of the ABU DHABI Tri. Best of luck to Jackyback and indeed the other Irish including Liam Dolan of course and Matt Molloy.

the website is pretty crap but there should be a live video feed here

Live tracking here

tunney

El Director wrote: »

Well just over 6hrs to go now until the start of the ABU DHABI Tri. Best of luck to Jackyback and indeed the other Irish including Liam Dolan of course and Matt Molloy.

the website is pretty crap but there should be a live video feed here

Live tracking here

Dolan out of water and stormed to first AGer on the bike

Fran a little slower it of water and riding well

Bambaata

Just saw a Phoenix tri top there leaving with the bike. Obviously from earlier

sconhome

He's moving up nicely in his AG too.

Kurt Godel

Jackyback 119th after swim lap 1, and has been taking places at every checkpoint since, now in 81st overall after first bike lap. Looks like a solid enough swim.

El Director

Would I be right in assuming it was a non wetsuit swim?

tunney

El Director wrote: »

Would I be right in assuming it was a non wetsuit swim?

doubt it, times seem right for LCD and JB for wetsuit 3km

tunney

Fran now 15th in AG, 68th AG Male
Liam 1st in AG, 6th AG Male, was 2nd
Pretty bad site for tracking

tunney

Why does it say GBR beside some of the Irish????? Oh no wait..........

El Director

tunney wrote: »

Fran now 15th in AG, 68th AG Male
Liam 1st in AG, 6th AG Male, was 2nd
Pretty bad site for tracking

Yip, it was the same last year. I wonder what Fran's mechanical was before the race....

Despite taking a wrong turn Brownlee took the short course race.

According to Tri24 it's "hot but not crazy hot".

Molloy of GBR, 5th AG Male OA and 2nd in AG.

HalfTri

Looks like Fran battling it out with another irish man out there - Michael Stafford..

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Its Michelle here, that tracking is crap!! Typed in Frans name and nothing comes up?

HalfTri

Trevor Deep Bonbon wrote: »

Its Michelle here, that tracking is crap!! Typed in Frans name and nothing comes up?

Change "Timing Point" to bike lap 2

and set to Age Grouper over all.

Scroll through - you'll find him on second page

El Director

Trevor Deep Bonbon wrote: »

Its Michelle here, that tracking is crap!! Typed in Frans name and nothing comes up?

Hi Michelle, he is doing very well so far thankfully Try "Egan"

El Director

I must admit I got a bit of a fright when I saw 'Jackyback' was the last poster on the main forum page

tunney

Trevor Deep Bonbon wrote: »

Its Michelle here, that tracking is crap!! Typed in Frans name and nothing comes up?

http://www.evochip.hu/eredmenyek/premier/chipes_idomeres.php?lang=en&vid=243195&eventid=ADIT13DAd&css=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rakmarathon.org%2Fcss%2Flive_results.css&iframe=true

Direct link. Couldn't get it myself for a while but then I thought of trying "Egan" rather than "Hobbit"

You must be up the walls?

El Director

LCD has passed Molloy now it would seem.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Aw Im grand Dave, just drinking loads of coffee lol...

thanks for the link

RacoonQueen

35-39 lol

HalfTri

Puncture?

tunney

HalfTri wrote: »

Puncture?

Ah no........ Hoping its just timing chip problems???
Looks like he fixed whatever it was - he was complaining about mechanical issues this morning on twitter though

LCD 1st in AG again and 3rd AG male

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

He'll be freaked!!!

tunney

No looks like the splits are back to normal for him.

Timing - how bad!!

Bambaata

Would i be right in saying LCD could be first OA. The two ahead dont seem right

Bambaata

This tracking is woeful. Is the video stream gone?

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

yeah...seems to be gone:mad:

Fazz

Bambaata wrote: »

Would i be right in saying LCD could be first OA. The two ahead dont seem right

Looks like 3rd to me.
Kyle Buckingham 1st and Nick Baldwin 2nd.
Not sure of the first guy but Baldwin is Sesel from tritalk/slowtwitch and has gone full time so expected. Won his AG in Vegas just gone also and Podium Kona AG'er so that looks right.

Fazz

Looks like Owen Martin is next Irish AG'er over the line.

His AG is 40-44 now? He was 2nd if so just behind Matt Molloy!
Very Very impressive stuff.

LCD Biked 200km in 5:04 - just under the 40kph average!

Looks like he was on for 3rd overall until last 5km so may have suffered in silly heat over there. Still - currently 6th overall as other waves start to finish.

Great results.

bryangiggsy

Molloy 6th ager overall, dolan, 7th and owen 8th......some race that!!!

bryangiggsy

any word on Fran? No run splits yet?

HalfTri

bryangiggsy wrote: »

any word on Fran? No run splits yet?

T2 - 37 MIN...

Strange..

Unreal race from Molloy, Dolan & Martin..

Dolan must have suffered for the finish - but great race none the less.

Fazz

bryangiggsy wrote: »

any word on Fran? No run splits yet?

Looks like

Swim 56:20
Bike 6:34

T2 31 mins???

Hoping not an issue and a timing problem.

Others ahead in ag are only in first lap or so of run so hopefully hes out there now too.

Solobally8

Maybe its a problem with the site. Hope he hasnt stopped.

Fazz

He is on the run!
Made it to turn 1 so still out there and 30th in AG at mo.

Does look like he had a v long t2 - toilet/cramp/emotional issue

Seems to have plowed on so hopefully straight through run now.

Kurt Godel

JB seems to be making up a lot of places on the run. 125th M out of T2, now 96th well into the run.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

He finished it...i'm sure he'll be on in a while to update

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Just a nightmare day and no positives to take from it, i was flat as a pancake out there. Cannot keep this up any more, taking a break for a while! Thanks for the support and well done to Liam & Matt on AG win and Owen on 2nd, well deserved.

El Director

Mailed you already buddy and nothing more to add but please keep your head up, it isn't the end of the world and you are in what I'd imagine is a magnificent place, take it in and experience what it has to offer.

ebixa82

T2-37 mins? What happened there?

Briando

Well done JB!

shotgunmcos

Savage Irish results. Sorry to hear JB. One too many under now perhaps?

IronmanJNR

You have the dinner in T2

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

IronmanJNR wrote: »

You have the dinner in T2

As funny as Billy Connolly and John Bishop on stage.

elvis jones

Trevor Deep Bonbon wrote: »

As funny as Billy Connolly and John Bishop on stage.

Don't feed the troll;)

IronmanJNR

Really thanks .... Wow

Ridiculous thread .Well done an all that . Hope you enjoyed it , but something tells me you didn't , pity that after travelling all that way .
But sounds like you were unprepared for the conditions a desert has to offer

Typical of most of the contributors on this Triathlon forum really.

All train hard or go home attitude ,

WRONG !!

MrCreosote

IronmanJNR wrote: »

Typical of most of the contributors on this Triathlon forum really.

All train hard or go home attitude ,

WRONG !!

Not sure I understand what you're getting at here? Could you elaborate?

(I'm being serious actually!)

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

IronmanJNR wrote: »

But sounds like you were unprepared for the conditions a desert has to offer

Yep too busy eating doughnuts and ice cream instead of training.

This thread can be locked up now, served its purpose.

IronmanJNR

Snip - Keep it on topic and without the abuse

tunney

Whats the weather like in Kona?

IronmanJNR

tunney wrote: »

Whats the weather like in Kona?

its hot , so hot i can feel the burn

tunney

IronmanJNR wrote: »

its hot , so hot i can feel the burn

Good, I note that you are there in March and not October.