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Craig Alexander Ironman Victory

  

Craig AlexanderProving once again that he can run down anyone, Crowie smoked the field in the marathon to win the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championships with a time of 8:20:21. Crowie came out of T2 in 10th place and more than 12 minutes behind the leader Chris Lieto. Digging deep and throwing down at 2:48 marathon, Crowie chased down such stars as Normann Stadler and Chris McCormack, broke away from Andreas Raelert at the Energy Lab, and passed Chris Lieto at mile 21 to go on to victory. The conditions were tough � hotter than hell and not a breeze to be found. It was an outstanding race � congratulations to all competitors!

Mike Trees was in Kona to watch the Ironman World Championships. With Ceepo being the official Ironman bike partner and the defending men's champion Craig Alexander winning running in Newton Running shoes for a second time, Mike was there to see the award winning brands in action with the world's finest triathletes.

Newton Japan carried out the first 'shoe count' similar to the 'bike count' that currently exists to gauge the popularity of brands on Ironman finishers. The first 1,000 finishers had their shoe brands recorded and the results were published exclusively on Tri247.com. Newton Running shoes came 3rd in the survey with 11.1% of all runners which is a tremendous achievement for a relavely new brand in the market. However, this isn't too surprising as the world champion was wearing Newton shoes as he was crowned Ironman World Champion for a second time! You can see the full results of the survey on the Tri247.com website.

A separate survey also carried out on Kona triathlete's shoes found Newton Running shoes to be in 4th position with 146 athletes wearing the. This survey can be viewed here. On the established 'bike count' Ceepo was 16th which is great to see and we're sure that this figure will continue to climb. A further study into apparel saw 2XU tops, shorts and suits all in 2nd position which was a fantastic result.



 

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