Former World Ironman Champ to Speak at Red’s on Tuesday
If you’re into triathlons, chances are you’ve heard of Macca, aka Chris McCormack. The world class Aussie Ironman is headed to New Orleans, where he’s the poster boy for this year’s Oschner Half-Ironman Competition. Slated for Sunday, April 18, the course runs from the UNO Lakefront Research Campus and makes a loop around the city on Elysian Fields and Lakeshore Drive. Registration for the race closed on Easter Sunday.
For Macca, the road to The Crescent City leads through Lafayette and to—where else?—Red Lerille’s, where he’ll give a talk at 7 pm on Tuesday, April 13.You don’t have to be a member at Red's to come to this event, which is coordinated by Mark Miller of Precision Bikes, Ruud Vuijsters Physical Therapist and Smitty ‘Mongoose’ Smith.
The 37-year-old Macca began competing on international-distance courses in 1996, winning both the 1997 Triathlon World Championships and the 1997 ITU World Cup Series. To date, no one else has won both titles in a single year. He won Ironman Australia every year between 2002-2006 and won the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, in 2007 after six attempts. If you need a little inspiration for your personal fitness goals, don’t miss the chance to sit in the room with this world-class athlete!
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
The 37-year-old Macca began competing on international-distance courses in 1996, winning both the 1997 Triathlon World Championships and the 1997 ITU World Cup Series. To date, no one else has won both titles in a single year. He won Ironman 
Subscribe to this comment's feed