MEDIA ADVISORY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 30, 2010
Ironman Champion Hillary Biscay Confirms Participation in the 26th Ultraman World Championships
TUCSON, Arizona - Wisconsin Ironman Champion Hillary Biscay will compete in the 26th Ultraman World Championships, held November 26-28, 2010. The event consists of a grueling three-day, 320-mile (515-kilometer) individual ultra-endurance experience and takes place on the Big Island of Hawaii. Entry is limited to only 35 participants and is by invitation only; Biscay secured one of the coveted entries based on her extensive Ironman performance resume.
Biscay’s participation in Ultraman will follow the anticipated completion of her eighth Ironman distance event of 2010, the Ford Ironman World Championships in Kailua, Kona, Hawaii. Biscay Finished 4th at Ironman Brasil, securing her qualifying spot for World Championships.
Biscay finished third at the 2010 Ironman Malaysia, her 40th career Ironman and 15th career podium. She is the most prolific Iron-distance competitor on the professional women’s racing circuit. In 2006, her unprecedented performance set a new standard in Iron-distance racing when she became the first person to record six top-five Ironman finishes in one season. Biscay qualified for the 2000 Olympic Swimming Trials and completed her first triathlon in 2001.
“I’ve been intrigued by the idea of Ultraman for some time and I was looking for a new challenge this year,” stated Biscay. “I had the chance to check out the Ultraman course following a summer training camp in Kona and decided I didn’t want to wait any longer to have a crack at this race.”
Biscay continued, “This Ultraman project would not be possible without the valued support my sponsors: PowerBar, K-Swiss, TYR, ISM, Wilier, Zipp, FSA, CycleOps, Vega and Global Rescue.”
At the conclusion of the 2010 Ultraman, Hillary will have competed for over 500 hours throughout her remarkable career and covered the equivalent competition distance of 121,936 football fields; New York to London roundtrip; the circumference of the moon; or a trek across the Sahara Desert, twice.
Biscay is represented by Octagon.
For more information:
http://hillarybiscay.com
http://ultramanlive.com
http://www.octagonoly.com
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
HJ blistering Rhode Island 70.3
HEATHER JACKSON POSTS THE FASTEST BIKE SPLIT AT THE AMICA IRONMAN 70.3 RHODE ISLAND
In her true "Uber Biker" style, Wattie Ink.'s own Heather Jackson posted the fast bike split of the day in Rhode Island. After exiting the water in 12th position, Jackson mounted her assault on the roads of Rhode Island in pursuit of the lead, hammering her way to an impressive 2:29:53 bike split. Her bike time would be the fastest of the day by over 5 minutes. Jackson finished the day on the podium placing 5th posting a 1:28:21 run split. For complete details on the Amica Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island race visit www.wattieink.com
In her true "Uber Biker" style, Wattie Ink.'s own Heather Jackson posted the fast bike split of the day in Rhode Island. After exiting the water in 12th position, Jackson mounted her assault on the roads of Rhode Island in pursuit of the lead, hammering her way to an impressive 2:29:53 bike split. Her bike time would be the fastest of the day by over 5 minutes. Jackson finished the day on the podium placing 5th posting a 1:28:21 run split. For complete details on the Amica Ironman 70.3 Rhode Island race visit www.wattieink.com
Monday, June 14, 2010
Heather Jackson Boise 70.3 RR
The high-winds and hot weather conditions did not stop Wattie Ink. professional Heather Jackson, who posted an impressive 3rd place finish in Boise yesterday, following her solid 5th place performance at last weekend's Mooseman 70.3 event.
Jackson's 70.3 World Champion teammate, Julie Dibens, was the winner of the day in Boise with an impressive 4:25:14; Linsey Corbin was second at 4:29:22 and Jackson rounded off the podium with a 4:34:58.
Jackson's form is coming along nicely as she heads to Bend, Oregon next week for the USA National Time Trial Championships to test her cycling horse power against the nation's best cyclists.
Heather proudly competes using her Adamo Breakaway saddle.
For more information on Heather Jackson contact: Wattie Ink.
wattie@wattieink.com
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Sam Krieg wins Idaho State Road Race Champs
ISM is please to announce Cat 2 roadie Sam Krieg of Krieg Cycling (www.kriegcycling.com ) has just won the Pro 1,2 Idaho State Road Racing Championships on his Adamo Podium saddle. He won with an off the front effort solo effort. We brought this saddle to market specifically for the road racer and couldn't be more proud of Sam.
"First off thanks for the saddles. I have to be honest and say the road and TT saddle have saved my life. NO JOKE. I have been racing and training for 7 years and I just wish I would have tried one sooner".
On another note, Sam also won the Cat 2 Tour of Gila TT on his Adamo Racing saddle and rode the other stages on his Adamo Podium to a 2nd place overall. Get some!!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Jo Lawn wins in UK!
Jo Lawn wins on Adamo Racing on UK Soil at first event in the new and innovative TriGrandPrix Series
This Sunday (30th May 2010), arguably the strongest long distance field ever assembled in the UK competed in The Outrageous Half, the first event in the new and innovative TriGrandPrix Series (www.TriGrandPrix.com). The half-iron distance event, was held at Leybourne Lake, near Maidstone, Kent, featured a 40 strong pro field, competing for their share of the £40,000 prize money up for grabs.
British athlete and former ITU World Champion (Standard and Long Distance), Leanda Cave, who recently placed second in the Abu Dhabi International Triathlon and won both Ironman 70.3 Florida and Escape from Alcatraz recently will be a strong contender in the Pro Women's field, but will face stiff competition from Czech long distance specialist Lucie Zelenkova, and seven times Ironman New Zealand winner Joanna Lawn. Ana Burgos is a name to watch out for too, after recently making the transition from ITU racing, and Ana Casares, the Basque run specialist could pose a threat to the big names in the final 21km run.
Results:
Female
1st - Jo Lawn NZ - £8,000
2nd - Leanda Cave – GB -£3,000
3rd - Eva Ledesma Calvet – ESP- £2,500
5th - Julia Grant – NZ - -£1,500
Male
1st - Fraiser Cartmell – GB- £8,000
2nd - Timo Bracht – GER - £3,000
3rd - Clemente Alonso ESP -£2,500
This Sunday (30th May 2010), arguably the strongest long distance field ever assembled in the UK competed in The Outrageous Half, the first event in the new and innovative TriGrandPrix Series (www.TriGrandPrix.com). The half-iron distance event, was held at Leybourne Lake, near Maidstone, Kent, featured a 40 strong pro field, competing for their share of the £40,000 prize money up for grabs.
British athlete and former ITU World Champion (Standard and Long Distance), Leanda Cave, who recently placed second in the Abu Dhabi International Triathlon and won both Ironman 70.3 Florida and Escape from Alcatraz recently will be a strong contender in the Pro Women's field, but will face stiff competition from Czech long distance specialist Lucie Zelenkova, and seven times Ironman New Zealand winner Joanna Lawn. Ana Burgos is a name to watch out for too, after recently making the transition from ITU racing, and Ana Casares, the Basque run specialist could pose a threat to the big names in the final 21km run.
Results:
Female
1st - Jo Lawn NZ - £8,000
2nd - Leanda Cave – GB -£3,000
3rd - Eva Ledesma Calvet – ESP- £2,500
5th - Julia Grant – NZ - -£1,500
Male
1st - Fraiser Cartmell – GB- £8,000
2nd - Timo Bracht – GER - £3,000
3rd - Clemente Alonso ESP -£2,500
Friday, May 7, 2010
Chris McDonald Ironman Utah RR
3:30 am and I hear the screech of the alarm . to be honest I was pretty happy to hear it today as it had been 8 months since I had hear that sound in preparation for an Ironman.
It was the inaugural Ironman Ironman St George. I had visited the area late in 2009 and had a look over the course and thought that this was going to be a tough little race and let me tell you Utah and st George didn’t disappoint .
After the early morning shuttle from downtown st George out the sand hollow I had a few quite minutes to think about things and I was really excited to be racing.
I jumped in the water a good twenty y minutes prior to the start to get used to the frigid 57 deg water and before I knew it we were getting the count down and boom we were off .
I can say that for about the second time in my career things went to plan in the swim . I got off to a good start and found myself sitting second in the lead group with only Luke bell swimming solo off the front . I was completely content with this and just sat and bided my time . once we rounded the last turn buoy things were heating up and I decided to just move to the back of the group and relax.
Once we hit dry land I didn’t waste any time in transition and was second onto the bike with 12 or so guys in tow .
From here I looked around at who was in the group and knew I had some of the strongest guys in the race with . We rolled up luke at around 30 or so miles and now we had a lead group of 6 guys with 3 of them doing the lions share of the work.
There is not a lot to say about the remainder of the bike other than It was very windy and when Wiess came by us it was like being passed by a car!
We hit T2 with the group now down to 4 and Michael had built a solid 6 min lead in the second half on the bike . Ben Hoffman and myself had been working hard to limit the damage to him and we hit the run about 7 seconds apart . I pretty much looked at bens back for the remainder of the marathon . the gap went up and down and ended at around 90 sec . I was happy for Ben to have break through race to take second place . Also a big congratulations to Michael for having a great race.
I was happy to walk away from St George with a podium finish after a frustrating end to my 2009 season.
A big ( huge ) thank you to all my family friends and sponsors . it is a good start to a big year.
Cheers Chris
Chris "Big Sexy" McDonald
Professional Triathlete
3 x Ironman Champion
www.chris-mcdonald.net
It was the inaugural Ironman Ironman St George. I had visited the area late in 2009 and had a look over the course and thought that this was going to be a tough little race and let me tell you Utah and st George didn’t disappoint .
After the early morning shuttle from downtown st George out the sand hollow I had a few quite minutes to think about things and I was really excited to be racing.
I jumped in the water a good twenty y minutes prior to the start to get used to the frigid 57 deg water and before I knew it we were getting the count down and boom we were off .
I can say that for about the second time in my career things went to plan in the swim . I got off to a good start and found myself sitting second in the lead group with only Luke bell swimming solo off the front . I was completely content with this and just sat and bided my time . once we rounded the last turn buoy things were heating up and I decided to just move to the back of the group and relax.
Once we hit dry land I didn’t waste any time in transition and was second onto the bike with 12 or so guys in tow .
From here I looked around at who was in the group and knew I had some of the strongest guys in the race with . We rolled up luke at around 30 or so miles and now we had a lead group of 6 guys with 3 of them doing the lions share of the work.
There is not a lot to say about the remainder of the bike other than It was very windy and when Wiess came by us it was like being passed by a car!
We hit T2 with the group now down to 4 and Michael had built a solid 6 min lead in the second half on the bike . Ben Hoffman and myself had been working hard to limit the damage to him and we hit the run about 7 seconds apart . I pretty much looked at bens back for the remainder of the marathon . the gap went up and down and ended at around 90 sec . I was happy for Ben to have break through race to take second place . Also a big congratulations to Michael for having a great race.
I was happy to walk away from St George with a podium finish after a frustrating end to my 2009 season.
A big ( huge ) thank you to all my family friends and sponsors . it is a good start to a big year.
Cheers Chris
Chris "Big Sexy" McDonald
Professional Triathlete
3 x Ironman Champion
www.chris-mcdonald.net
Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Winner's Circle
Sarah Haskin's winning St. Anthony's
Raynard Tissink winning Ironman South Africa.
Multiple champ Rebeccah Wassner's winning equipment.
Jo Lawn winning Ironman New Zealand.
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