Julie Derron

Um, and so yeah, it's, [chuckles] it's kind of a bummer if you're a competitor, but every, you know, the sky is bright for, um, or the future's bright for Taylor Knibb.

Um, I think going into this race, people were sort of saying, you know, Julie Derron is one of the favorites, and I was one of those people in the camp too.

But then I started to think about how Taylor showed up to 70.3 Worlds last year in Marbella really not prepared, like coming off Kona, having that heat stroke, um, not doing anything for a week, and then doing like barely anything for the second week, and this was not a very long turnaround.

So she really came into Marbella with not great preparation at all, lost some fitness, and she's-- but she was only a couple minutes behind Lucy Charles Barclay, who again, one of the greatest to ever do it.

She wasn't really that impressive on the bike.

She, she couldn't drop Lucy.

Um, so maybe she's not gonna be able to like put as much time into, you know, Alanis and, um, Kat and, um, and Julie Derron and some of these other women on the bike.

And if she doesn't, she's gonna lose time on the descent because she's not really known for her descending.

You know how it takes me hours to work out the correct question.

Here's the correct question: Who is the best middle distance runner at the moment? Julie Derron for the women, easy-peasy.

Well, based on form it's gotta be-

We will get into that in a second.

Not 6K to go.

At 45 kilometers into the bike, she decided to descend at 80% just to be safe, because she had six minutes on second, seven minutes on third, and 9 to 10 minutes on Julie Derron and Kat Matthews and Laura Philipp and, uh, and Alana Siffer, uh, I mean, and, and Mar- Majlinda Pierre.

Like, she shut it down 45 kilometers into the bike, mate.

It was incredible.

You should, you should be able to write it on his bum and then go to the tattoo shop and just get them to, like, tattoo over it.

I'll order one on Amazon.

Well, Julie Derron came second, uh, just at the weekend-

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... um, the next big move that was made was around 8.5K with Alanna Siffer passing Marjolaine Pierre.

Um, and then the charge was kinda on for Julie Derron from there.

So, um, in the end, Julie was able to catch Imogen Simmonds for fourth place around 10K, was able to then catch Marjolaine Pierre 2K later, um, and then her teammate, Alanna Siffer, another K or so after that, um, to hang on for second.

Uh, Taylor ended up taking the tape today, four-time IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion.

the podium real quick.

Yep.

So, uh, second place, Julie Derron.

Incredible performance, um, by her.

Sato.

We talked about it, uh, before, you know, um, although I think Julie Derron, I've seen her ride a few times, and she doesn't seem to be quite as lower cadence as what she used to.

But s- for example, Tri Sato per se was someone who believed that-

Yeah