Check out the live video coverage above–and the live ticker can be found HERE

I decided to give you guys a bit more juicy tidbits about my week leading up to Disney this year–so I have created this video diary for you guys to check out.  Hopefully it gives you a bit of insight about what goes on behind the scenes before race day.

Tune in at www.ironman.com to see the race live!  See you out there!

Dirk Bockel: New Orleans Race Report 2010 from Dirk Bockel on Vimeo.

It is about time for the latest news from St Augustine, Florida…

After spending much time in Luxembourg and waiting for my visa papers to go through, I decided to leave and escape the cold and rainy weather back home. Two and a half weeks of 45 degrees was definitely enough, especially when preparing for some more early season races in the heat here in the south of the US.  Oh well, and I just found out that my visa didn’t go through either, which is a real bummer for my summer racing and training plans over here.

I have plenty of other options so no need to stress, and I have enough time to prepare for Hawaii and do a couple of other races over here during the summer.

So when I came back to the warm Florida weather I got right back into some heavy training and forgot about the stressful race in Abu Dhabi.  The new goal was defined as 70.3 New Orleans and four weeks later another 70.3 race in Florida at Disney.   Read More…

If you didn’t get a chance to see the race on Eurosport–check out the full coverage of the Abu Dhabi International Triathlon above!