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I'm in - I like this (and I'm not just being patriotic with my first choice)  

Canada
US
Australia

Who are you picking on the men's side from the UK?

I forgot about Skipper for the UK.  Like you said, Germany is really strong for the men, and Switzerland really strong for the women - but little for the other gender. 

I think I'm gonna throw Germany in the mix -- they had a 6th place women's finish last year.  I'll go with:

Canada

UK

Germany

Going to have to go beyond the top 10 to figure out the three most "dominant" countries at Kona this year!  Looks like it ranks as follows:

US -- 3rd male, 5th female -- 8

UK -- 11th male, 2nd female -- 13

Germany -- 1st male, 21st female -- 22

I got second and third right  Totally failed on picking my own country for the top slot....hah!

Germans are dominant in the male race with four of the top 10; likewise, UK is pretty dominant in the female race with three in the top 10, and two each from the US and Denmark.  With the exception of Ryf crushing it, the race really did not play out at all like I had predicted.  It was a lot of fun to watch though. 

No Cdn females fininshed... 

Cdn Jeff Symonds pedaled the last 30 miles with 1 leg!!  Crank broke/came apart, whatever - it's insane that he kept going.  And then ran a 2:50 marathon.

I'm back, RR up

http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=536671

You guys have any off-season stuff coming up?  I'm doing the rock & roll half marathon in Las Vegas next month just for fun.  Well, and to celebrate a friend's birthday.  Should be a good weekend.

Just some fun CX races and a 10k in a couple of weeks.

I've got a friend local to me that's going to do the HM in Vegas too.  It sounds like fun!

I just finished my "off season" -- not by choice, but due to injury.  I'm racing in Pucon, Chile in January.  I just started running again this week -- finally, after nearly three full months, my stress fracture is healed and I'm running pain-free!

I know Marc is racing Miami 70.3 this weekend....I was supposed to be racing too, but it just didn't work out.  

I've also got some CX racing starting next Saturday.  Other than that though just trying to hopefully lose some weight, or at least not put any on, and start working on FTP stuff shortly.  And as I type this, my coworker just put two bags of cookies on the snack table right across from me.  So evil.

Rusty!

Doesn't everyone have a snack table at work?

Yup, pretty neat stuff.  I only recently tried loading some runs into it.  I'm not quite sure how to handles those yet but at least its an option.

Sounds brutal in the heat Marc!  I'm pretty sure I won't be doing that race again.    

What made you decide to go back?

Your race report almost (not really!) makes me glad I was injured and couldn't race

Any thoughts on why identical watts resulted in seven minutes slower on the bike?  Was the wind more favorable two years ago versus straight headwind/tailwind?  I suspect you're more aero this year, so very curious!

if by "snack table" you mean "Starbucks" well then yes - we do! But seriously, if I was sitting next to a snack table at work I wouldn't stand a chance....And while we are at it, what is with those colleagues at work that don't want to take the last piece of whatever it might be in the break room? You know the ones that cut the half of the half of the half of the half of the half of the last bagel in half. Just eat the whole thing already!

Wind conditions two years ago were just about perfect.  My out and back splits were only different by about 20 seconds.  It was never a head wind or tail wind, just some sort of cross wind and pretty low.

Sorry to hear you've had so much trouble.  Hope you are fully on the road to recovery!

You can go head to head with Fred at Alcatraz!

Well, that might have just sealed the deal for me! I gotta get on Facebook.... Or maybe I'll just do my smack-talking on Strava. But just between us, insure am glad I age up out of his group next year.