The Timex Multisport Team is made up of 48 athletes from around the world who compete in a variety of triathlon and multisport events. They're having their annual training camp this year at the Timex Performance Center, the home of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, so we thought we'd get down to East Rutherford, New Jersey to check out the action.
Last year the Timex Multisport Team competed in 560 events around the world, including 258 Ironman and 70.3 events. In all of that, they managed to rack up 149 first place finishes – an impressive 27% of the times they raced. In 2011 the team also held 209 clinics around the world.
This weekend the team is having some elaborate testing done by the folks from the Korey Stringer Institute (KSI), who are doing sweat analysis on the athletes as they run and bike in a room that’s been heated up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius). The KSI crew were in Hawaii last year doing a number of tests on athletes competing in Kona and will be presenting the results from that work here tomorrow.
Here are some of the team highlights from 2011:
An overall win by Viktor Zyemtsev at Ironman 70.3 Augusta.
Jackie Arendt, in her first year as a pro finished second overall at Ironman St. George and Ironman Louisville.
Gwen Jorgensen qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.
Luis Alvarez completed his 82nd Ironman race.
Will Kelsay competed in six XTERRA events in six countries around the world … in six weeks!
12 athletes competed in Kona
We’ll have more from the camp through the weekend here on Ironman.com. We’re also down here to do some interviews with the athletes – we’ll have more of their stories and a weekly training feature by members of the team throughout the year, too.
You can reach Kevin Mackinnon at kevin.mackinnon@ironman.com
Keith Meyer explains what's happening here in New Jesey this weekend.
Stu Fitch made the trip to New Jersey from Darwin, Australia
We did mention this is the New York Giants training center, right? I'm guessing none of the triathletes will be doing biceps curls with this!
Jackie Arednt enjoys her new locker ... well, for today, anyway.
The sweat testing crew from the Korey Stringer Institute - they're based at the University of Connecticut.
Cassie Maximenko
