Drove up on Saturday to Vancouver for the ITU World Championships. The U-23 and Men's and Women's Elite races were amazing. Spectator friendly, exciting, well produced, with tons of chances to see the race pass over and over, a huge video screen with the action, very impressive. I've been trying to explain to people not there the size of the crowd, specifically for the Men's Elite race. I can definitely say I've never seen anything like that at a triathlon, it kinda seemed like it was Europe, I hear there's huge crowds at some races in Germany, Hungary, etc...
Sarah Haskins and Helen Tucker made an great move on the bike to get a nice lead from Vanessa Fernandes, and battled it out for the world title, and on the men's side, Javier Gomez "did what he does" ...surged at 5k and broke everyone. At the line, he pointed at the number 1 on his arm, and, if you win 11 world cups in 2 years, I guess you can do that. Anyway, great race.
The expensive part of the trip (outside of hotel, gas, and food) was that when I went to get my car from the parking garage at the hotel, it was broken into, rear passenger window busted, all my S#*! thrown around, and my bike was stolen! With my new SRM on it! It could be much worse, it's just a bike, but it was quite a loud trip back home with the garbage bag taped to the window.
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