'World Championship Level' - Marquardt Says Bike Bar Was Raised at Lake Placid

'World Championship level' - Marquardt says bike bar was raised at Lake Placid

"It was such a high intensity I wasn’t sure I could put together a marathon after that," says men's Lake Placid winner of bike leg.

Ironman Rookie Solveig Lovseth Stuns Again in Lake Placid - Triathlon Magazine Canada

Lovseth, who already turned heads with a record-setting third-place finish at the Qatar Airways Ironman Hamburg European Championship, proved that was no fluke. Today in Lake Placid, she surged through the field on the marathon to claim victory in a time of 8:43:29, moving from seventh in the Ironman Pro Series rankings to fourth. Not bad for someone who only started racing the full distance this year. The Lake Placid course, one of Ironman’s ol…