Wow, I had this targeted as my "A event" for this year before a nerve problem in my lower legs (originating in the lumbar spine) erupted last fall. I liked the combo of hill, windy, hot and no wetsuit swim. I hope it survives to next year.

As for 40 slots for 300 people, you have to beat whoever shows up, but Cabos is up against a lot of all competition in the mainland USA. I thought the spring date was better given lack of competition from USA races.

It should become a Challenge event and increase it's numbers. ;-)

Low numbers may not mean slow KQ's. Rev3/Challenge Half races that I've done have been in the range of 250-350 people. However, the pointy end has been similar to Ironman 70.3 races I've done.

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Where did you find the bib list??

I just searched the participant list on active.com. It assigns bib #s, but I am not sure if those are accurate.

Don't you have to consent to be listed on Active?

That's a great question...I have no idea.

I noted this on Active's site : "Note: The following types of participants are not included in search results: minors, group-registration team members, participants registered by someone else and participants who have opted out of appearing in search results. To verify the registration of a minor, please sign in to your ACTIVE.com account or contact the Event Director."


Might be more than 300, but not THAT many...

Now that's funny.

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Pete Githens
Reading, PA

If you are going by the list on active.com, it is incomplete. I am not on it (in for the full) and at least 4 others on the events's facebook group page stated the same.

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This is a late Fall option race for me next year too, assuming it survives.

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Around 1500 registered for the half, full and aqua bike per the expo yesterday.

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Not too far from 300 according to the tracker: All Athletes (Limited to the first 50 of 345 athletes)
http://www.ironman.com/...=loscabos&y=2016
Looking at the splits It looks like a though day...

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Ale Martinez
www.amtriathlon.com

Wow, splits look insanely slow on the swim and the bike!

Friend of mine did the aquabike. Said temp as like 98-99.

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I just finished, will post a more detailed review in a bit...

The swim - everyone got hammered by a sizable swell after the second turnaround. I thought that I'd never make the cutoff and ended up swimming a 1:21 after swimming the first 1.2 in 31 mins.

The bike... well, let's just say that my P1 powermeter started showing complete garbage after 91 miles - probably fucked by the ambient temps. I was never so happy to get off the bike in my life.

The run... the temps at 3pm were easily hovering at around 91 F with a good amount of humidity. It rapidly cooled down right around 4:15, so the run after that was manageable but I was too messed up by the bike and the temps on the first loop of the run to fight and simply jogged the rest of the run in for a 3:59 (my slowest IM run to date).

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Well, if a Northern European can get second in that race, conditions can't have been THAT extreme....
Good job, Markus!

How did the start work with the full and half going on at the same time? Did they send the pro's for the 70.3 off first? Just curious how they organized it.

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yep. the 70.3 pros started at 6:15-6:20 and then the rest of the 70.3 started at 6:30. The rest of us had to wait til 7:30am. Transition was split into 2 parts so they did not kick us out.

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Mike

Did anyone get a breakdown slots?

with ~350 ppl and 40 slots, i'm guessing there were some AGs with quite a few chances to go to Kona.

CAT Male Female
18-24 2 2
25-29 3 3
30-34 3 3
35-39 2 2
40-44 2 2
45-49 1 1
50-54 1 1
55-59 1 1
60-64 1 1
65-69 1 1
70-74 1 1
75-79 1 1
80+ 1 1

Those were the projected slot allocations.... not the actual allocation based off finishers.

edit: And on 2nd thought.... those projected slots don't look right either.

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Looks like it was a tough day...only 3 finishers under 10 hours. Did they go back to the old bike course? That course was a beast the first year.