Race Coverage

Kona Coverage: Minnesotans...Updated..

Saturday, 11 October 2014 14:07

2014 HAWAIIN IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - Minnesota Stuff

Swim Splits:

- DAN ARLANDSON (38, Burnsville) - Swim - 59:52

- KORTNEY HAAG (35, Maple Grove) - Swim - 1:12:49 (Best IM Swim - 1:08:16 - IMOO '12)

- SARAH BERGER (28, St. Paul) - Swim - 1:16:19 (Best IM Swim - 1:09:41 - IMOO '13)

- HILARY PATZER (36, Minneapolis) - Swim - 1:17:22 (Best IM Swim - 1:15:21 - IMOO '13)

- BEN NEMETH (40-44, Sartell) - Swim - 1:28:09

- ERIC GOULLAUD (65-69, Plymouth) - Swim - 1:29:28

- DEREK GUIHER (35-39, Richfield) - Swim - 1:33:15...

Apologies - Is anyone else having trouble getting ironman.com's "Athlete Tracker" to function properly. Totally sucks!

Conditions yesterday were tough, and records and fast times were hard to come by for most. Here's what triathlon.competitor.com had to say:

With the week leading into the 2014 Ironman World Championship presented by GoPro featuring the windy conditions that the Big Island is known for, speculation was high that this year’s race would be even more brutal than usual. Those concerns came to fruition, and Saturday’s event saw a rough-water swim, an extremely windy bike ride and a hot and humid run.
The Minnesotans we were following didn't fare as well as we had hoped:

- GREG TAYLOR, 60 - 10:40:27 (1st AG)

- BEN NEMETH - 10:55:51

- KORTNEY HAAG - 11:03:55

- DAN ARLANDSON - 11:19:00

- HILARY PATZER - 11:59:58

- SARAH BERGER - 12:16:56

- DEREK GUIHER - 14:53:11

- ERIC GOULLAUD - 15:43:38