Trakkers vs. KSwiss Smackdown
Saturday, April 17th, 2010
If you haven’t been paying attention or following the fuss on Twitter, a ton of news is coming out of the Trakkers crew lately.
Last weekend, the Trakkers pros had a camp down in Texas and Ironman.com had some great coverage of all of the festivities.
Ironman.com Trakkers Camp Coverage:
- Team Trakkers Pro Camp, Day One: The Gauntlet is Thrown
- From Social Media to Social Rides
- The Green Machine: Team Trakkers Closes Camp
The big news of the weekend was the throwdown against team Trek-KSwiss. Here is how it went down on Twitter:
- Michael Lovato: Team Trakkers is calling Trek-KSwiss to a race. We bet $5k our team beats yours at in Knoxville May 9. Be there, or we win!
- And Trek/KSwiss Tri Team response? Said team co-manager Nick Howe on his handle, TrekSpeed: Anywhere, Any time. Any day. We gladly accept.
- Julie Dibens: Can’t sleep! Woke myself up laughing cos I dreamt I saw Michael Lovato crying like a baby at the side of the road in Knoxville! Bring it ML.
- Lovato: Hey Julie, those were tears of joy you saw. I always get emotional after a crushing victory.
- Lovato: Hey Julie we hope u get your mojo back soon, we don’t want Trek-KSwiss to race without their strongest athlete.
- Dibens: Michael you are trying to kill me with kindness! I like your style… but I won’t fall for it!
Teams seem to be the trend in the triathlon world. What the Trakkers crew is trying to do is make the team dynamic more than just a group of athletes with the same race kit, but actually start scoring races cross country style rather than just through individual results.
All this hoopla makes me pretty frustrated that I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to Rev3 Knoxville. My work schedule just doesn’t look flexible enough to allow for the 14 hour road trip down to Tennessee. I’m hoping I can pull some last minute trip to race there. Plus, that will mean that I’ll have raced every single Rev3 race since I’m already signed up for Quassy and Cedar Point later this year, which would be pretty awesome…
Audio of Michael Lovato and Richie Cunningham Talking Trash
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