Didn’t get enough of last year’s SOS bike route?
Didn’t get into the American Zofingen duathlon?
Solve both of those dilemmas by registering now for this weekend’s Ironman or Half Ironman distance Time Trial.

Online entry is $65 (+ $10 day-of-event insurance).
Race day registration is $85.

Racers will start on Butterville road, head toward 299, then to Mtn Brauhaus @ 44/55, up/over Minnewaska and down to Granite Road. The backside of the course is a relatively flat section through Accord toward Clove Road, and finally up/over Mohonk. See Route Map

There is a 56mi race (Half Ironman) and a 112mi TT. Top 3 male & female finishers in the 112mi TT will win part of the $850 prize money.

This race is a perfect opportunity to re-race the SOS bike course (in reverse), test your ride for you Ironman or 70.3 race, or kick start your SOS training for 2012.

Saturday – April 28th
It was a beautiful day for racing in New Paltz – congratulations to all finisher of the 2012 Spring Dual Against Cystic Fibrosis.

Local pro, and 2010 SOS winner Justin Harris won the race in 52m 41s, followed closely by Christopher McCloskey and SOS veteran Dr. Mike Halstead.

Other noted SOS’ers racing in the Spring Dual included SOS founder Don Davis, Dan Winfield, Arthur Boyko, Shane Eversfield, Bill Shashaty, Keith O’Malley, Paul Trapani, Jim Bacon, and Mary DeNitto – perhaps others. See the full results here

If you raced or spectated and have any photos that you’d like to share: sostriathlon@gmail.com
How many SOS Survivors are signed up for next week’s Trooper Biathlon?

Local racing gets underway this weekend with Catskill Mountain Multisport‘s presentation of the Spring Dual Against CF. The Spring Dual is a great way to test your early season prep & features a short-course format duathlon of 2-mile run / 12-mile bike / 2 mile run. And, all proceeds from this race will go to benefit cystic fibrosis awareness and research.

The run takes place up/down Huguenot Street in the middle of New Paltz, and the bike course exits town by the Gilded Otter, across the flats, and out/back on Springtown Road. The course is fast, last year’s winner finished in 54min 2sec.

There are numerous places to spectate along Huguenot Street, but race day entries are being accepted starting at 7:30am tomorrow (we believe that the cost is $65). Race time is 9am.

If you are already registered you can check your entry and bib number on the online Entry List

Good luck to all SOS Survivors competing this weekend.

Prepping for a 70.3 or full Ironman is time consuming enough without having to drive all over the place to find distance training races. And while finding half and full marathons is easy, finding local training races for the bike and swim legs is nearly impossible. Unless you live in the Hudson Valley.

We already told you about the Half-Iron and Ironman distance cycling time trails (May 20th – register now!), but now we have local 2.5k and 5k swims too. Announcing, on June 2nd starting from the public dock at Waryas Park in Poughkeepsie, the “2 Bridges Swim Under the Walkway“.

There are two distances, either are ideal for triathletes – especially those training for the Survival of the Shawangunks or for Half Ironman (1.2mi) or Ironman distance (2.4mi) races. Both the 2.5k (1.55mi) and 5k (3.1mi) have wetsuit/technical suit divisions so this is an excellent chance to test your suit early in the season and in open water. The course is a loop running between the Walkway Over the Hudson and the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

(From the Event Site)
Course Description: The 2.5K swim starts in the water near the public dock, and follows a rectangular course that circles the eastern stanchions of the Mid-Hudson and Walkway Over the Hudson Bridges, which are 900 meters apart.

Swimmers head west for 50 meters and turn right around a buoy. They then swim north parallel to the shore, pass under the Walkway Bridge and turn left (west) at a buoy. They swim 50 meters before taking a left (south) turn around a second buoy. They pass under the Mid-Hudson Bridge, turn left (east), swim 50 meters and turn left again (north) before returning to the start/finish area where they exit the water at the boat ramp. 5K swimmers will do two loops of the 2.5K course.

So there you have it.
Find your running race anywhere, but stay SOS-local for early in the season Half-Iron and Ironman distance bike and swim races.

Ironman 70.3 Texas has provided a recap of the race from Sunday 3/1/2012.

Spoiler Alert – here are the finishing orders for the Pro fields:

Men’s Pro Field
1 3:47:40 2 Timothy Odonnell Boulder CO USA
2 3:48:03 0:24 3 Sebastian Kienle Hohenklingen DEU
3 3:48:49 1:10 4 Ronnie Schildkn Samstagern CHE
4 3:50:08 2:28 45 Michael Raelert Rostock DEU
5 3:52:35 4:56 44 Stephane Poulat Anglet FRA
6 3:54:32 6:52 34 Jordan Jones Golden CO USA
7 3:54:32 6:53 5 Lance Armstron Austin TX USA
8 3:54:55 7:15 48 Marino Vanhoena Jabbeke BEL
9 3:55:28 7:49 38 Jeremy Jurkiewi Nice FRA
10 3:55:43 8:03 17 Axel Zeebroek Samr E BEL

Women’s Pro Field
1 4:13:27 55 Kelly Williams Austin TX USA
2 4:18:47 5:21 57 Yvonne Van Vler Schwarzach NLD
3 4:20:16 6:50 59 Amy Marsh Austin TX USA
4 4:22:03 8:36 58 Caitlin Snow Brockton MA USA
5 4:25:27 12:01 64 Margaret Shapiro Herndon VA USA
6 4:26:43 13:17 67 Sarah Piampian Los Angeles CA USA
7 4:29:12 15:46 69 Anja Beranek Nuernberg DEU
8 4:29:34 16:08 60 Heather Wurtele Kelowna BC CAN
9 4:30:00 16:34 63 Jessie Donavan Shelburne VT USA
10 4:31:09 17:43 90 Jennifer Tetrick Millville CA USA

We’re unsure if there are any SOS Survivors racing in either of this weekend’s two big 70.3 races, but if you are interested you can follow both Ironman 70.3 California and the Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Texas on IronmanLive.com.

Tune in on March 31st to see Andy Potts defending his Ironman 70.3 California title against a stacked pro entry list that includes Richie Cunningham, Chris McDonald, Leon Griffin, Tim Berkel, Paul Ambrose, and Matt Lieto. Expect to see Leon Griffin as a contender.

In the pro women’s race look for Heather Jackson to try to redeem her almost win with a position atop this year’s podium. Last year Jackson lost out to Mirinda Carfrae with the finish line in sight. She’ll have stiff competition from Lesley Paterson, Melanie McQuaid, Magali Tisseyre, and Americans Linsey Corbin and Amanda Lovato.

Follow race-day coverage at IronmanLive.com

7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will be at the Galveston Island race tackling his second 70.3 since returning to triathlon – and he is only one of a number of notable pros entered into the April 1st race. Also competing will be D3 Multisport coach and Zen and the Art of Triathlon host Coach Brett. Brett will also be competing in this year’s SOS Triathlon, so come Sept we expect to hear which challenge he found most daunting.

The pro field for Texas is topped by the following:
Michael Raelert
Marino Vanhoenacker
Timothy O’Donnell
Ronnie Schildknecht
Paul Amey
Bryan Rhodes
Jozsef Major
Sebastian Kienle

Kelly Williamson
Leanda Cave
Yvonne Van Vlerken
Caitlin Snow
Amy Marsh
Nina Kraft
Heather Wurtele

Notably absent, the injured defending champion Chris Lieto.

Follow race-day coverage on IronmanLve.com.

SOS Winner and the voice of HITS Triathlon Alex Sherwood will be heading down to Florida this weekend for HITS Ocala.

If there are any local racers heading down and you can provide either commentary, images, or video we’ll be happy to publish them along with a race recap. Email: sostriathlon@gmail.com

Congratulations to 11 time SOS Veteran (and ’08 winner) Alex Sherwood on being named the Voice of HITS Triathlon. Alex’s debute gig was in Naples in January and he has since covered Corpus Christi event and will continue through the rest of the 2012 season with HITS.

Alex Sherwood & winner James Lawrence.

Now that we know of so many SOS’ers participating in the HITS series we’ll start to add coverage of those events. If you have any photos or race reports to add email them in to: sostriathlon@gmail.com .

Additional Links:
HITS homepage
Alex Sherwood | Venture outdoors for winter fitness fun | PoJoNews
James Lawrence – Tri & Give a Dam

Want to start your SOS bike training early this year?
Do you have an Ironman or 70.3 race on your calendar for this year?
Looking to get in a Time Trial as a prep for that race?
Just looking for a really long bike race to enter?

Well, for those of you that are not already racing in the (sold out) American Zofingen Duathlon, two additional races have been added to the May 20th events. Announcing the Iron & Half Iron distance Time Trials.

The races will be run in TT format, so individual starts every 15 seconds. Riders will share the bike course with the Am-Zof racers; you’ll get to experience 2 (56mi) or 4 (112mi) loops of the climbs up to both Minnewaska & Mohonk (2000+ ft climbs each loop). SOS veterans will recognize this course as largely similar to the 2011 modified bike leg, but in reverse. See Course Here.

There will be cash prizes for first ($250), second ($100), and third ($75) place finishers in both Men’s & Women’s categories of the Ironman distance race – and all 4th place finishers will get a training video from The Sufferfest (a prize also to be featured at this year’s SOS).

This is a difficult race and a sure test of your ability to endure that challenges of either a half or full Ironman distance ride. Last year’s weather conditions were deplorable and half of the field DNF’d – which may make this year’s 56mi race fairly popular. Register Soon.

LINKS
CM2 Promotions page

Registration

**UPDATED**
Apparently IronmanLive decided to run a live blog for the event – unfortunately they didn’t announce this before the event, but if you’d like to scroll through the commentary you can follow their coverage of the race (be sure to turn your heat up to about 90º for the full experience).

*Spoiler Alert*
Pro Men’s Top 3
Faris AL-SULTAN: 03:51:39
Bryan RHODES, Bryan 03:59:14
Alessandro DEGASPERI: 04:00:54

Pro Women’s Top 3
Lucie ZELENKOVA: 04:30:17
Katja RABE: 04:34:13
Christie SYM: 04:36:38

** ORIGINAL POST **
We’ve been trying to find competitor information and a way to follow the inaugural Ironman 70.3 Sri Lanaka and 5150 but we’re coming up blank. Emails and Tweets to the official race contacts haven’t yielded any results thus far, but we’ll up date this post if that changes.

In the meantime, you can watch this beautiful race report from the Tour of Oman – sent to us by The Sufferfest.

The Sufferfest will be giving away 1 video to all 4th place finishers in the 2012 SOS. How else are you going to make the podium in 2013?