I was just browsing the results:
http://www.ironman.com/...y=2017#axzz4b4Hyusc0
It looks like only 30 athletes were at it.....so maybe everyone got a slot for 70.3 World's too!!!!
I was eyeing this event in Saipan for the future. I thought I had visited the eastern most point in the USA at Point Udall on the Island of St. Croix in the USVI, but it turns out that the Marianas Islands are west of the international date line....so they are the most "EAST" in the US. This island is 12 miles long and 5 miles wide but the heighest point is 480m which is decent for something that small. Mainly I want to go there because it was a big momentum change in the Pacific Theatre putting the USAF B-29's in range of mainland Japan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan
http://www.ironman.com/...y=2017#axzz4b4Hyusc0
It looks like only 30 athletes were at it.....so maybe everyone got a slot for 70.3 World's too!!!!
I was eyeing this event in Saipan for the future. I thought I had visited the eastern most point in the USA at Point Udall on the Island of St. Croix in the USVI, but it turns out that the Marianas Islands are west of the international date line....so they are the most "EAST" in the US. This island is 12 miles long and 5 miles wide but the heighest point is 480m which is decent for something that small. Mainly I want to go there because it was a big momentum change in the Pacific Theatre putting the USAF B-29's in range of mainland Japan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan
The loss of Saipan was a heavy blow to both the military and civilian administration of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki TÅjÅ. According to one Japanese admiral: "Our war was lost with the loss of Saipan." U.S. Marine Corps General Holland Smith said: "It was the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive [..] it opened the way to the Japanese home islands