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A pace setter riding a bicycle alongside Kristian Blummenfelt as he attempted to become the first person to complete an Ironman in under seven hours stole the limelight with this comedy of errors sticky bottle fall.
Blummenfelt took a bottle from the runner, who had completed his pace setting duties and swapped onto two wheels to keep up and offer nutritional support, but when he went to hand it back the Kenyan marathon runner hit the deck.
“He’s a runner not a cyclist,” said the amused commentary team on Pho3nix’s YouTube live stream of the event from the Lausitzring in Brandenberg.
“It’s not going to affect the race, but the big man is down […] sticky bottles on the run as well!
“No damage, he broke his fall and almost just tripped over in the end so I’m sure he’ll be back.”
He was back…making a heroic (and slightly wobbly) return moments later…
“He’s back! There he is! He’s in the wrong gear but he’s coming slowly,” the commentators rejoiced. “He’s not having a super time on that bike, now he’s run off into the grass, no he’s okay.”
“It looks like he’s got his Asics on Speedplays which isn’t the best base!” the co-commentator noticed.
British pro riders Alex Dowsett and Harry Tanfield were part of the team pacing Blummenfelt’s rival Joe Skipper through the 180km bike leg. Tanfield shared a picture of his monster front chainring for the ride, and Dowsett has since uploaded his ride to Strava…
The group covered the 180km in 3:16:07 at a mind-boggling average speed of 55.2km/h (34.3mph), as Dowsett put out a normalised power of 334w (4.11w/kg)…
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