Dan Funk wrote:
TX83 wrote:
Is there a specific reason why the bike course is 4mi long??? Not sure I understand why they can't get it correct.It's long on purpose. I believe to compensate for the down-river swim which can be insanely fast.
Interesting. That makes sense. I guess that's why IM Chattanooga had a long bike course as well since that swim is a down current swim. What's comical is that many participants were all getting 144.6 stickers. I had a friend bragging about how they beat another friends IM course time from a completely different IM event and even injected the "and I even had to bike 4 miles longer". ugh.
With that said, I don't agree with it and many courses like that don't have adjusted distances. I'd prefer to know that I am racing the prescribed distances. Each course has it's own unique characteristics and there shouldn't be a reason to change the actual distances to "adjust" for time.
Sorry for the side convo.....and now back to our regularly scheduled programming :)
Cheers, Ray