Colting, Monforte Hold Day Two Lead At Ultraman

Two-time Ultraman champion Jonas Colting of Sweden extended his lead on day two of the Ultraman World Championships, while 2009 Ultraman Canada champ Amber Monforte of the United States turned in a stellar bike split to overtake fellow American Hillary Biscay for the lead in the women’s race.

Colting cycled the 171.4 miles in a total time of 7:24:03, giving him an overall time of 14:52:47 and a 23-minute lead over newcomer Slater Fletcher of the United States. Mike Le Roux sits in third.

Monforte passed day one leader Biscay by turning in an amazing 7:57:58 bike split. The next fastest female on the bike was six-time champion Shanna Armstrong of the United States in 8:22:18. Biscay’s strong performance on day one gave her the second position in the overall standings, with Armstrong sitting in third.

Athletes will take on the final leg of the race on Sunday. The day will consist of a double marathon (52.4 miles), with athletes starting south of Hawi and making their way into Kona.

Competitor magazine’s Bob Babbitt is taking in all of the action on the Big Island and provides these fun news and notes from the course:

– Mike Rouse from K-Swiss is racing with his wife Kim Rouse. In the second day at about 100km into the bike, Mike’s support crew met him with a hot dog, Fritos and a Dr. Pepper. A support team member was wearing a hot dog hat and sporting a Fritos shirt.

– On day one Jonas Colting said the wind was so bad on the bike for a number of miles that he couldn’t take his hands off the bars to drink or shift gears.

– Jonas’ brother Frederik, who is a few years younger than Jonas, says the two of them have a caveman workout that they do back home in Sweden. They wear Vibram Five Finger shoes, take some rope and a sledgehammer with them and spend about 90 minutes in the forest hitting trees with the sledgehammer, dragging tree stumps with the ropes and making their way through a high intensity workout.

– How tough was the wind? Hillary Biscay said that on day one there was a downhill section where she was in the small chain ring going 11 mph while pushing 200 watts.

– In the race is Cory Foulk from the Big Island. Cory has had a hip replacement and has come back to do multiple ultra and Ironman events. In the past two years he has completed the Ironman World Championships on a fixed gear bike, and in the late 1990’s he completed the Kona race on a 60-pound Schwinn Typhoon Cruiser bike… and he rode barefoot!

Ultraman World Championship Day 2 Results
Hawaii – Nov. 27, 2010
171.4-mile bike

#, Name, Age, Gender, Day 2 Time, Overall Time
509 Colting Jonas 37 M 7:24:03 14:52:47
514 Fletcher Slater 33 M 7:26:25 15:15:33
520 Le Roux Mike 34 M 7:44:51 15:24:12
524 McEvoy Christian 28 M 7:51:56 15:56:38
508 Cokan Nino 37 M 7:53:12 16:17:10
526 Monforte Amber 32 F 7:57:58 16:19:42
505 Biscay Hillary 32 F 8:28:09 16:45:18
536 Wang Gary 43 M 8:10:12 16:50:03
531 Ribeiro Alexandre 45 M 8:08:18 16:53:44
501 Armstrong Shanna 36 F 8:22:18 16:54:50
518 Joswig Markus 29 M 8:17:50 17:10:09
503 Beasley Scott 49 M 8:25:43 17:23:46
502 Augusto De Sousa Milton 36 M 8:20:20 17:32:09
537 Winkler Kathy 44 F 8:47:28 17:42:16
513 Draper Christopher 34 M 8:56:43 18:13:50
510 Conceicao Carlos 46 M 9:30:33 18:31:11
534 Schmidt Wolfgang 49 M 8:52:34 18:51:25
519 Kobayashi Megumi 37 F 9:36:07 19:15:11
529 Peruta Adam 32 M 9:46:00 19:54:36
532 Rouse Kimmie 55 F 9:28:44 20:01:41
522 Maciel Vanuza 40 F 10:11:29 20:03:40
504 Beers Laurie 56 F 10:03:59 20:14:41
528 Patzina Roland 44 M 10:21:05 20:32:05
506 Bourne Simon 47 M 9:47:59 20:34:58
530 Raymond Martin 48 M 11:02:11 20:35:47
507 Callos John 48 M 9:59:57 20:48:57
515 Foulk Cory 51 M 9:58:26 20:52:24
517 Hillery Robert 29 M 10:01:42 21:46:27
512 Degazon Suzy 46 F 10:41:40 21:49:00
535 Sissel Jason 34 M 10:49:43 22:00:13
521 Lester Jason 36 M 10:21:46 22:01:33
525 Minor Wendy 65 F 10:56:39 22:10:11
533 Rouse Mike 58 M 10:54:44 22:13:19
511 Dalton Paul 52 M 11:26:00 23:02:38
523 Maddalozzo Mario 34 M 11:59:58 23:03:03
516 Franklin Martin 46 M DNS DNS