The winner of the women’s professional race, Amy Cymerman of Rochester, conceded, “I was a little hot to be honest.” Brazil native Danilo Pimentel, who won the men’s competition, told The Post the race was no sweat. Tim Cranston, 68, who traveled from Denver, Colorado for the race, lamented that the race’s length was reduced. The decision came two months after a runner died after finishing the Brooklyn Half Marathon on an unseasonably warm morning, and three years after the annual Big Apple triathlon was canceled completely due to the heat. “While it is disappointing to reduce the length of both races, our number one priority is to do all we can to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our competitors, volunteers, medical personnel and spectators,” the New York City Triathlon announced via a Facebook post on Thursday. 40 minutes after its scheduled start time - when the temperature was already in the low eighties. Getty Images for Life TimeĪthletes were off to the races Sunday at 6:30 a.m. Downs for The New York Post Nicole Falcaro celebrates winning third place in the Women’s New York City Triathlon. Getty Images for Life Time A young athlete throws up from the hot weather at the New York Triathlon’s finish line in Central Park. Still, she noted, “I would have loved a 10K, I’m not gonna lie.” Athletes run in the New York City Triathlon on Sunday as spectators look on. “I was hydrating the whole time with water and electrolytes, and I was in bed by 7:30 last night!” she said. HOME OF THE BRAVE NYC PROThe winner of the women’s professional race, Amy Cymerman of Rochester, conceded, “I was a little hot to be honest.”īut the 30-year-old pro said she was prepared for the boiling temperatures. “They did really well, the course is really tough, the up and down hills,” he said of his competitors. “I was born in the Amazon, this heat is normal! I don’t need preparation for these conditions,” said the 35-year-old. Race organizers had shortened the event’s biking part from 24.8 to 12.4 miles and its running event from 6.2 miles to 2.5 miles due to the heatwave, which stretched into its sixth day.īrazil native Danilo Pimentel, who won the men’s competition, told The Post the race was no sweat. New York City triathletes braved scorching temperatures Sunday as a heatwave continued to bake the Big Apple - but some participants brushed aside the extreme weather. Man with Down syndrome gifts triathlon medal from historic race to his mom Tokyo swimming venue smells like crap days before Olympics begin Triathlete vomits, needs wheelchair after winning gold HOME OF THE BRAVE NYC TVI'm excited to welcome Reshma into our store tomorrow night (invitation to join us at the bottom of this email), and love these " brave not perfect" sweaters we created together! Each one purchased will send $100 to Girls Who Code.‘I regret breaking up with you’, confesses ex of Olympic medalist on live TV Reshma's latest act of bravery? Her new book " Brave, Not Perfect" with which she helps us all gain powerful insights and practices to make bravery a lifelong habit and "to be the authors of our biggest, boldest, and most joyful lives." Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like and does, has reached over 90,000 girls and it's just getting started. Instead of shrinking after these defeats, she dove head first into a new venture and founded the uber successful organization Girls Who Code. Talk about bravery. My friend Reshma Saujani has run for public office twice (as the first ever Indian women to run for Congress, and as a public advocate), she failed both times. And this is holding us back." -Reshma Saujani "We are raising our boys to be brave, but our girls to be perfect.
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