Bike has to be way short, times are ridiculous. Might take sub 9 to make top 10 in m35-39 and get KQ slot.

The guy that off the bike in 50th place in 40-44 rode 4:40. Pretty absurd.

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1st Man AG run 2h35' marathon I guess not only the bike is short...

The top two pros each beat Tim Don's world record.

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Is the run course different this year??

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Feel bad for the winners because it's like course cutting. There should be an asterisk by their times moving forward. Disrectful to not measure course correctly.

The idea of world records is triathlon is futile anyway given all the changes in courses/topography/length/weather conditons/motos/moon cycles etc. It is only for those that are not really paying attention to the sport at a deep level. Regardless anyway you skin the cat, Matt & Ivan's run were terribly impressive if this is the same run course as it has always been.

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totally agree
ridicuolous that 12 man sub 8h and disrespectful for previous record holder.

challenge roth has correct distances.

Hanson was 7 minutes faster than last year and Tutukin had a 7 minute run PR. I would be surprised if it was the same course and/or 26.2 miles...

That said, regardless of how long it was, both guys had good races

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Agreed, it sucks for the winners and all finishers. I understand the issues on course set up, but as I said in another thread, if they can't have the full distance in all sports, this should not be classified as a championship.

Fwiw, there was a lot of controversy over the previous world record as well.

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Just looked at his run time. No way he ran in vaporflys, he obviously would have gone faster if he did.

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Yes, but that moto drafting talk is subjective at best. Especially since no one actually saw Tim drafting the lead bike.

A short course is not subjective at all.

Edit: And the record is actually Jan's at Roth... Tim has/had the "brand" record, as retarded as that is.

Not sure why they'd change the run course, but I'm not there so I wouldn't know. Also, weather could just be favorable for a good run (70's, low humidity, etc).

I was the course (but not the waterway portion) much of the afternoon. Appears to be the same as usual. Looking at the maps the waterway portion appears to be the same as always. The one place they could screw it up though is at the turn around. I didn't go down there to see if it's in a different place.

I had it at 110 miles last year. Run was solid then. Big difference this year is best weather in the history of the race.

I have an athlete that did it, their GPS showed 109.6. (They are in the PC division and someone sent me a pic from their Garmin).

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True, rare windless day here in Houston.

Edit: 18 people in my AG, m35-39, went sub 9:00:00. Crazy.

At the end of the day it's the same course for everyone out there today. Even if the bike course was 150 miles Starky would have still been run down.

the run course downhill? that seems to be a trend in USA these days... all marathons downhill promoting easy BQ

But you will always get to say I did an x:xx.xx Full Ironman as a PR. Like I ran a 29 min 10k on the back end of an Olympic distance race once. Only 6 min faster than my stand alone 10k daym I was strong that day. I still laugh at a dad trying to explain to his kid that the 3m54s mile in the kids run may not have been actually a mile. Never seen several dozen 8-10 year olds break 4 min in a mile race before.

Okay so as I mentioned in the starky sub 4 thread, bike was more like 177km. As for the run, the tracking has matt at 2:30:15 at 40.1km yet he finished “42.2” 4 min 25s later which means he ran a way sub 4 mile on his way to the finish.... well he even ran a new mile world record actually

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