Patrick Lange

It's just too choppy.

And it's funny because when I came out of the water, in front of me was Patrick Lange.

And I say, well, that's, I mean, Patrick is a good swimmer.

He's not the worst swimmer, but I thought that's a really good swim for Patrick.

And but I really thought like again, like Vincent and, and Jamie Riddle, Matthew Marquardt, you know, uh, uh, Pierre Lacorte, those guys, you know, Sean Berg, like I really thought they would put in like a massive, massive gap to everybody else, and they didn't.

And then to see Blumenfelt like in, in Langa, I mean, I know he dropped out on the bike, but like to see him in the front pack on the swim, I was like, "Uh-oh." Like they, those guys got to be like, "Hey." And just like you said, like knowing, knowing your competition so well, you know that when they got out of the water and they saw Patrick and, and Kristian there, you gotta, you gotta, you know, and Laidlow, right? I mean, he didn't have nearly the swim I thought he was gonna have.

He- I thought he'd be like way out there, and obviously he had a bad day and ended up, uh, DNF-ing just like Jamie Riddle did.

But you know, it's...

I don't know.

I just, I found it like again, like the head, like six, even six, five, six years ago, you would've said, "Yeah, you can't lose it in the swim," or, "You can't win it in the swim, but you sure can lose it." And you say it, you know, it's true, but now it's even more so.

I think people are overextending themselves so much on the swim because they don't have the, the cycling fitness that they want, even if they know they have the run fitness, like Patrick Lange.

You don't know this, right? But like I can imagine like that was a, an enormous effort for him because he's thinking, "Hey, I, I can't give up 10 to 14 minutes on how some of these guys are running," especially Blumenfelt with the 10582 down in Nice.

And then the bottles up front being dialed in on your chin to your arms too.

So it was surprising though on the bike seeing Patrick Lange stop.

And then keep going.

Heartbreaking.

But she just seemed like she was in a really, really amazing headspace.

And it was funny because Patrick Lange in the men's pre-race press conference said in the middle of his interview, because the women were done, he was like, with that attitude, you are going to win.

He was like, the island is going to basically gift, not gift it to you, but if that is your approach, then you will win.

And it was just kind of interesting to see it kind of played out that way.

Um, but yeah, I guess watch that space that I'm not sure the ins and outs of the severity of, of what's going on.

Um, okay.

But the other thing as well, that was, um, sad to see was obviously Patrick Langer DNF thing as well.

Yeah, man.

If so, it was really, um, really early as well, which is probably, I dunno, especially cause he was very vocal saying it was his last time on the island.

looked like...

And Patrick Lange had DNF'd at that point too.

But it looked like...

Oh, he DNF'd on the bike, sorry.