{"id":6637,"date":"2020-11-11T21:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2020-11-11T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:41:22","slug":"ali-brownlee-qualifies-for-kona-2020-and-announces-intent-to-also-race-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6637","title":{"rendered":"Ali Brownlee qualifies for Kona 2020 and announces intent to also race Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a period Alistair was on Tim Don\u2019s Ironman world record pace, but with discretion being the better part of valour, he cooled his jets and concentrated on getting safely across the line and grabbing his Kona qualification.\u00a0Alistair set a new time of 7:45:20, lowering the old mark by more than six minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI woke up the day after Kona and I wanted to do another Ironman, so I had two goals coming here. The first was to get around an IRONMAN without capitulating and I was pretty close, so I am happy with that. The second was to qualify for Kona and I have done that, so I am chuffed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event is fantastic, the sea is beautiful out there and I stood on the beach this morning and it was so calm and the water was gorgeous. The course is beautiful, flat and well organised and well supported. Right out there in the middle of the \u2018outback\u2019 there were tri clubs set up and cheering us on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving Sam Appleton and Clayton Fettell to swim was perfect and I said \u2018Let\u2019s get out on the bike and get rolling\u2019. We did that and Sam rode really well, I was pretty impressed with him. He was riding quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the run I wanted a bit of space and I didn\u2019t want to get to caught on running to a pace. I just wanted to run to what I kind of felt was comfortable. The first few kms I didn\u2019t feel great but for 20km after that I got into a really nice rhythm. I thought \u2018I am flying here\u2019, so I checked myself a little bit and thought \u2018No, no, don\u2019t get carried away, you want to finish this and don\u2019t want to be walking the last 10km\u2019.\u00a0 I pulled it back a little bit and it was good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alistair was very happy with his race and his first trip to the West but he thinks there is still room for improvement and more time to be gained on the quick Busselton course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIt was quite windy today and I honestly think that if it wasn\u2019t so windy, there is five more minutes in the bike there easy. No doubt about it. Five minutes on the bike and run a bit quicker, and this course could be really quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never been to Western Australia before. I had been to the east coast a lot over the years and I came because I thought it was a race that would fit in and I hoped it wouldn\u2019t be too bad coming from the UK with a direct flight. I just wanted to get the job done but I have really enjoyed it. Busselton has a very different vibe to the other part of Australia. It is really relaxed and the people are nice, chilled out and the countryside is beautiful. I have really enjoyed being here and I would like to come again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have a few days before I go home so I will be exploring the area and I am going to Margaret River and drink red wine and eat some steak. I go to Bahrain next weekend but I won\u2019t be racing, and then it is home for Christmas. When the new year rolls around I will focus on trying to race the World Series as well as I can, with an eye on Tokyo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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For a period Alistair was on Tim Don\u2019s Ironman world record pace, but with discretion being the better part of valour, he cooled his jets and concentrated on getting safely across the line and grabbing his Kona qualification.\u00a0Alistair set a new time of 7:45:20, lowering the old mark by more than six minutes. Advertisement \u201cI…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}