Yesterday began our big family trip to Hawai’i. We traveled yesterday, and today we snorkeled and shopped in Kailua-Kona.

https://orangegnome.com/posts/3528/hawaii-days-one-and-two

#Hawaii #2025HawaiiTrip #Kailuakona #Triathlons #IronmanTriathlon #Snorkeling #KahaluuBeachPark

#ironman tragic and unnecessary

The organisers of a half #Ironman race in Co #Cork that two competitors died in were told by the national governing body for #triathlons that the event could not be sanctioned following a water safety assessment, #Triathlon #Ireland has said.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0821/1400760-cork-ironman/

@markarayner Go look up "Hector Picard", he's a former sparky that sadly got a bit too close to some HV circuits, lost his right arm at his shoulder and is left just past his elbow.

Despite his #disability, he does #triathlons, riding an adapted #bicycle without #prosthetics.

There's a video of him successfully changing the front tube on a bicycle unassisted using his stump, his feet and his mouth.

When we diss, we miss seeing the ability. 🙂

Damn.

The guy who died yesterday, doing the Swansea #triathlon ... I was there, taking part. Didn't see any kerfuffles in the swim waves before us. So he must have been in my wave, meaning we swam together.

I didn't see anything happening around me - you just focus on swimming straight, on navigating the buoys - then on getting your ass out of the water and onto the bike.

Sad, creepy stuff. Makes me think a lot about why I want to keep doing #triathlons.

Via NextDraft

""The father-and-son team began running races in 1977, competing in more than 1,000 marathons, #duathlons and #triathlons," In a custom racing chair, Rick -- who had cerebral palsy that left him a quadriplegic -- told his father that running in the race made him feel like his disability disappeared." Rick Hoyt, the man whose father pushed him in a #wheelchair for 32 years in the #BostonMarathon, has died at the age of 61.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2023/05/23/rick-hoyt-inspirational-boston-marathon-wheelchair-racer-dies-at-61/70246521007/

See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvtpGCqU2Tg