Inspiring sprint to finish during triathlon

Or you have a strategy and a plan. Looks to me like he won, no?

I don't know.  Looks like they were all part of a pack.  Probably the lead pack.  I look at it like a 5k or 10k race on the track in the Olympics.  Sometimes the pack mentality takes over and the whole pack holds back, slower than normal.  This benefits the sprinters at the end.  I have no doubt they really did leave it on the course/track.  But for this race, maybe it made sense, strategically, to keep that stuff in the tank.  Just in case.  And it looks like it paid off in the end on this one.

If he had burned through his reserves earlier in the race, he might not have been able to stay ahead when the sprinting started.  It looks to me like he had a strategy (although he certainly cut it close)

This is my favorite triathlon related video by far and it really pumps me up. I am very competitive and this is the stuff that hits home. I actually thought about this video at the end of my brick when it was like 98 degrees outside and I was on the course i will be on tomorrow morning. I thought about what it would feel like at the end and if i could give it that.... i tried somewhat but i was pooped!

-andrew

^^^^^ LMAO.

ITU racing is strategically different that what most of us here do. These athletes have a very, very different definition of "leaving it all out on the course" than most people.

If anyone wants to see this kind of racing up close, BT is running the aid station on the run course of the ITU race at the Mussleman. It's a one mile loop so the pros pass the aid station 6 times.

The speed, the level of effort, the pain, the sheer athleticism and force of will they exhibit is absolutely incredible and watching all of these things increase with each lap is as engrossing and inspiring as anything else you're likely to see this summer.