Ironman 2010
Penticton Ironman Swim Start
Date: Sunday August 29th 2010
Details: 3.8 km Swim to 180km Bike to 42.2km Run
Tale of the Tape
This race is the culmination of 10 months of serious training for both athletes including thousands of kilometres swimming, biking, and running, mixed with yoga, massage, chiro, physio, eating, sleeping…
Both are accomplished athletes having recently completed:
Jon
2008 Penticton Ironman
6 Sea to Summit Adventure Races
4 MOMAR Adventure Races
4 Half Ironman Races
BC Bike Race
Knee Knacker Trail Race
Troy
4 Sea to Summit Adventure Races
2 MOMAR Adventure Races
2 Half Ironman Races
BC Bike Race
Knee Knacker Trail Race
Seattle to Portland Road Ride
Geneva to Nice Road Ride
Favorite:
Swim: Jon
Bike: Jon
Run: Even
Experience: Jon
The Province Sports provides a personal breakdown:
The ultimate goal of anyone competing in a gruelling Ironman event is first and foremost to finish—there are factors above and beyond general fitness which impact completion: hydration, nutrition, weather, mechanical issues, and the internal mental battle.
Jon is the clear favourite here based on his swim/bike abilities and the fact he has completed this race before. Experience is a huge factor in this race—especially when you apply what you learned in the previous race to your training moving forward. His weakness may be using what he likes to call his sixty thousand dollar brain (MSc Degree) too much. He has a tendency to ‘over think’ races from time to time which has led to simple mistakes being made. Sometimes they add up to something bigger.
Troy is ultra-competitive with Jon to the point it is a brother like rivalry in his eyes–this should serve him well on race day. Thousands of people watch the race and he likes to perform in front of a crowd—he tells me that people watching really motivates him. His weakness is not having completed an Ironman before—not knowing how his body will react to the stresses put on it and the suffering that comes with this.
Conclusion: If everything goes as planned for both on race day Jon will win. However, you never know what can happen on THAT day so I would say there is a shot Troy may pull it out….he has to have the best day possible and have Jon suffer. Good Luck guys!!
August 12th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
I place my support behind Troy “underdog” Dalton.
After reading Lark and Richards’ book, The Chemistry of Success, Secrets of Peak Performance, I think Troy needs to follow in the foot steps of an experiment that they did with mice. First they gave the test mouse an alkalizing agent, either sodium phosphate or sodium citrate, and put him in a non-escapable water filled cylinder and timed him against a non-performance enhanced mouse. The results were staggering. Alkaline mouse lives for up to 20% longer!!! Troy, sounds like you could use a 20% enhancement. Look into it.
More than that, believe 100% you can do it. And if you still have even 5% doubt, then step on his ankle. That’ll fix his wagon!!! Good luck to both.
August 14th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Good to see you both doing this. As I live in Penticton, I have watched this event for many years and look forward to this year again. Alan (my son) has told me you both have been training hard for this event and it should be a classic considering the forcasted weather. Good luck to you both. Myself and others from Penticton who know of you through Alan will be cheering you on.
Cheers guys.
August 16th, 2010 at 10:22 am
HI Troy!
Good luck!! This is such an epic event I am super excited for you. Look for me on your way to OK falls, just before the turn around on the run. We will be there cheering!! My brother in law is doing it for his firs time too. Good luck and be safe!! Hope to see you out there!