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Amanda Lovato
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Belinda Granger
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Chris Lieto
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Chris McDonald
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Fraser Cartmell
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Gwen Jorgensen
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Heather Wurtele
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Hillary Biscay
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James Lawrence
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Jesse Thomas
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Joe Gambles
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Julie Dibens
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Kristen Peterson
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Leslie Paterson
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Linsey Corbin
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Matt Lieto
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Melanie McQuaid
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Meredith Kessler
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Michael Lovato
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Paul Matthews
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Sarah Piampiano
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Trevor Wurtele
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Tyler Stewart
Chris McDonald
 Athlete Profile
Discipline: Triathlon
Category: Ironman & IM 70.3
Training Location: Boulder, CO
"Big Sexy" started competing in triathlon in November of 2001 and began his professional racing career in April 2004. Chris now splits his year between Boulder, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona. He has competed in more than 30 Ironman and is a 4x Ironman champion.
 www.trimacca.com
Training Tools
Training and Racing
What are your most important power training metrics?
Power /speed / HR
What are your goals for 2012?
Remain consistant / break 2:50 for a marthon off the bike and add to my IM win list!
What are you pre-event rituals?
I always eat fried chicken the day before an IM
What is your favorite pre-event meal?
Fried chiken!
What is your favorite post-event meal?
Ice cream and candy
What is your greatest achievement/proudest moment in your career?
Going from 250 pound couch potato to 4 Im wins and 33 top 10 finishs in IM
What is your favorite race?
To hard to pick one so my co favs are Louisville / New Zealand and Roth.
For Fun
What was your favorite cartoon growing up?
Astro boy and a close 2nd was ninja turtles
What is your favorite training song?
Weird as it sounds...good country music.
What is your guilty pleasure?
Everyting in moderation!
What do you do when you’re not training?
I like to catch up on a little partying with my friends but still like to keep active with
some MTBing / skiing / and enjoy a nice coffee ride.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Funny enough I dreamed of being a professional athlete but it seemed impossible.
My #1 goal back then was to be an architect.
Blog Entries
April 2, 2012
Cold temps at IM 70.3 California didn’t slow down the competition, and CycleOps athletes put in incredibly strong performances. 4 of the top-6 pro women and 3 of the top-10 men were CycleOps-powered athletes. Melanie McQuaid took the huge win, laying the groundwork with the fastest women's bike split, and big congratulation goes out to Meredith Kessler, Linsey Corbin, Lesley Paterson, Jesse Thomas, Chris McDonald and Matt Lieto (who recorded the fastest bike split on the men's side).
Also Congratulations to Sara Piampiano and Heather Wurtele on strong showings at the Texas Iron Man 70.3!
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October 4, 2010
Chris McDonald is a decorated CycleOps Powered professional triathlete that started his professional racing career in April 2004. He trains and races with the SL+ hub, Joule 2.0 cycling computer, and PowerBeam Pro trainer. Chris splits his time between Boulder, Colorado and Albury, NSW in Australia.
We asked our Facebook Fans what questions they had for Chris about training with power, and we partnered with SimplyStu to put together a video of his answers. Download the video from simplystu.com or watch it on iTunes.
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June 15, 2009
by Chris McDonald 
The Rockman Half in Rockford Illinois on June 8 was week one of the double. [ed. note: Chris raced Eagleman 70.3 this pastweekend]. On all accounts my travel to the race was very uneventful, and I arrived in Rockford on Friday afternoon for a Sunday race. The weather man was telling me 75 and sunny for the weekend...well, Saturday it rained 60% of the day, and then Sunday was not a whole lot better.
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