If there's one thing the TA has heard a lot this week it's "it wasn't like this in Kelowna". For some TNSers, this isn't the case as they're still in the Okanagan for Ironman Canada this Sunday. We count 17 on the beach; Ron Allen, Richard Bendor Samuel, Terri Boss, Jeff Burbine, Mark Campbell, Sylvie Cloutier, Heather Doucette, Christine Gough, Penny Hart, Stacy Juckett Chestnutt, Ron MacDougall, Kathyrn MacKinnon, Scott Mason, Heather Mosher, Jason Murphy, John Sanford and Stephen Saunders (but this list is subject to the usual caveats).
The usual IM stories abound. Jason Murphy was Team Leader for Nationals in Kelowna last Sunday; after a week of working hard on the other side of the barricades, he finally gets a chance to do something for himself. This is IM 18? 19? for Mark Campbell, who had a BB issue and had to swap it out for something else. Whereas most people were strictly informative with their profession: MD, Professor, Chemistry Geek, Mark Campbell self-identified as "Cookie Monster" and Ron McScotch as a "Pumpkin Farmer". When Ron gets back you all might want to think about putting in your Curcubita orders in time for Halloween.
In keeping with IM tradition, when we punched "NS" into "State" we also got David Allen, Trevor Allen, Jim Casey, Gilles Chatelin, Andrew Houghton, James Lambert and Gavin Scott from New South Wales and Chris MacMillan from Aberdeenshire, so if you're running out of names for your athlete tracker, chuck in these honorary Nova Scotians (the Ironman website tells me so, can it be wrong?) and give them a virtual cheer too.
Ironman Canada isn't the only IM this weekend, with the Ford Ironman Louisville also taking place. A quick search for NS yielded Scott Cooper and Mark Pothier. We don't know Scott, but Mark did his first long-course at Bridgetown four weeks ago. He's also the son of local running legend George Pothier, so endurance runs in his veins (so to speak). Oh, and good luck to Paul Ambrose and Duane Cadman from New South Wales also.
Elsewhere, we culled 20 names from the Timberman 70.3 results sheet from last weekend. Top NSer was Adam Jones of Antigonish (4:33) who was 59th overall in a race with over 2000 finishers. Completing the list are Terry Worthen (5:22), Kevin Walsh (5:23), Terry Curley (5:24), Karalyn Burke (5:28), Edward Hawkins (5:35), Lisa Wilson (5:55), Ken Dufour (5:58), Anthony Corbin (6:04), Cory Tetford (6:06), Mary Cantrell (6:06), Wendy Foote (6:07), Paul MacDonald (6:10), Kathy Saulnier (6:21), Patricia Carrigan (6:26), Gregg Kerr (6:33), Andrea Haughan (6:48), Betty Pound (6:50), Carol Curley (7:12) and David Carrigan (7:48).
Meanwhile in print (yes, print media still exists), Laura Keefe, Caryn Small-Legs Nagge and Roxanne MacLaurin got name-checks in Triathlon Magazine Canada (Vol 5 Issue 5) for their Rhode Island results. Also, August issue Nubodys/Goodlife Fitness magazine Optimyz, is it's triathlon issue. You might see some familiar faces in there too. We'll have more on this in a later TA post.
Well done and/or good luck all (delete as appropriate)....
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