A lot of fast times. Same thing with womens race. Maybe a bit short besides beeing fast?

Yeah, amazing what a difference a decent commentator makes - so much better than the usual garbage I get to hear.

I asked a pro I know, and he said the course was accurate, but also indicated that there was lots of drafting.

3) That Florian Angert won his first Ironman in 7:45. I think he has the same coach as Sebi Kienle and Laura Philipp.

doesn't look like German domination in Ironman racing is about to end in the foreseeable future...

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if you can read this
YOU'RE DRAFTING!

Allan Hovda posted the following on Strava:

177.8km for a 4,23 bike split. For him that would be 3min extra if the course was accurate. He also posted 41.8km on the run. With 4.08/km that would be almost 2more min. Dunno how the swim was. But if a pro going 8.13 saves 5min (at least) the rest of us probably saves quite a lot more.

Next stop IM Barcelona ;)

Haha. It also sounded and looked like they had very ideal conditions, which never hurts!

I'm still surprised so many unknowns (to me) went that fast. Maybe the depth at the pointy pointy end is deeper than most realize.

I done it today the swim 4174 yards. The bike was 111.05 miles on my garmin maybe stopped slightly early and the run was 26.04 miles so bike and run defs a bit short not sure about the yards I'm a metres man. I went 9.03.30 first ironman 👌

I had 766m for the swim and 45.8km for the run - thanks, Garmin.

Did you know that in my agegroup the complete top10 went sub 9...... 8:45 did not give you a KQ this year (not direct, no clue about roll down).

Superfast this year, with more or less accurate course (not worse than other venues, nothing special), while a lot of the 'fast' athletes are not even there (a lot of them are in Kona right now).

I did 9:30 (not in Barcalona) this year and dream of KQ in about 3 years. I was hoping a 9:15 would get me there (or, at least in contension/close to KQ). A 15 minute improvent is certrainly possible. But a 45 minute improvement might be a bit over the top at this stage (kids, job, etc.). Might need to recalculate my odds (and/or train harder).

It wouldn't surprise me if your race was the fastest one ever, in terms of average finish time or podium avg for all AG! Absolutely bonkers how fast it was.

The race is notorious for drafting, many of us chose to ignore the PB as the pure distaste from a race like that and seeing so many wheel suckers would be terrible.
Not to mention the increased chances of crashes its that bad.

Hasn't stopped loads going for the cheap glory shot though.
Then when you compare their other race times you know how blatant it is and they were.

Not a race where times are reflective.

Even for pros, course is a bit narrow I gather and cameras too close to bikes.

Keep the dream. Change the course

I see I was a bit unclear. Sorry for the confusion. I did 9:30 this year, but not in Barcalona... So, might not need to feel that bad :)

That's awesome man, congrats. You're close... These times certainly seem like a big outlier to me.

Better than Texas!

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What's your CdA?