Hephaestus

Michi Weiss of Austria is on the beach, maintaining his lead and looks to have captured his first XTERRA World Championship

The helicopter is close to the finish line awaiting Michi Weiss to finish first

Lance apparently took a tumble towards the end of the bike ride but no word on how hard.

Run Mile 4 Top Men: Weiss 1:10 up on Dan Hugo with Eneko Llanos :19 back in 3rd

10mins to the finish!

Word from the course is Weiss is running really strong and Ivan Rana is running like a madman

At mile 3 - Lance still in 5th 3:10 back. Weiss is running fast putting time on everyone

Conrad Stoltz has dropped out at run mile 2 citing asthma

Then, Middaugh, Armstrong,Marceau

2nd place is Hugo at 1:40 back followed closelt by Llanos

Men's Run 2: Weiss holding a 2 minute lead over Eneko Llanos, Dan Hugo, Lance Armstrong and Josiah Middaugh all together

Top 4 men out of transition: Weiss, Armstrong, Conrad Stoltz, Dan Hugo charging hard in 4th and Josiah Middaugh in 5th

Michi Weiss into T2 with a 20 second lead over Armstrong

Michael Weiss in first, Lance Armstrong 2nd, Dan Hugo 3rd

Lance still leads, Dan in 3rd place.

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Dan 4th, Conrad 6th.

First at 6 mile, Armstrong at 45 second lead

Lance has closed the 40 second gap on the leaders and now has them in his sights, only 7 seconds back. Still in 3rd

Lance has moved into 3rd position about 47 seconds behind the leaders.

5th place man is Ben Allen followed by Dan Hugo of SAF. Both 1:25 back of the leaders

Marceau and Stoltz in 9th place

Lead 3 are all ITU guys. This is their first Xterra. Lance is about 45 sec behind lead 3

I thought this was a cool pic I took on the 45km Wolseley race this past weekend.

I see the PPA seeding run has taken place. "Oh, how the mighty have fallen!"