Exciting News about Motor City Triathlon!

lgabbs - 2008-06-10 9:17 PM Hopefully he's done hurdles in track before, because the trail portion is a complete obstacle course of fallen trees and branches. The condition of the pavement in there seems worse than last year too. We just went there today to do a brick...lots of glass in the bike lane, not so much in the car lanes, and the trail was bad...borderline worse than AA. I hope they do something about the trail, but the rest of the pavement on the island is perfect! From what I remember, there was barely any wind last year in the AM.

Thomas Demerly - 2008-06-10 8:14 PM I had the pleasure of chatting with Richard Swor of Dearborn yesterday evening. Richard is a U.S.A.T. National Age Group Champion at the Olympic distance and an elite level competitor. He mentioned he will be at Motor City racing on Belle Isle to defend his title as the 2007 overall champion at Motor City. Last year Swor was out of the water in 22:59, averaged 24.2 M.P.H. on the bike and ran a blistering 5:54 pace on the run to win in 1:59:22, the only athlete to crack two hours in the race and with a winning margin of over six minutes. Richard is a great guy and a fine sportsmen and being able to see a national class athlete race on home turf- let along one from our (my) home town is huge. He says the course is fast and we may even get a break from the wind early in the morning. I hope he's right....