Drafting and the lack of enforcement is dissapointing especially with the race being touted as a championship event. Given the course issues (distance, being too flat and fast that it leads to drafting) hopefully IM will find a new venue for the NA championship. Wasn’t drafting issues one of the reasons they stopped having 70.3 worlds at Clearwater?

Also, while I’m on a roll bitching about stuff, why didn’t they do coverage like they did at South Africa?!?

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I think it would have been interesting showdown. With that being said, I think Matt made a huge statement today with the run. Every picture I saw he had Tutukin either half-stepped or full-stepped.

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No matter, anyone who thinks Matt dropped 8 min off his ironman rub pb is delusional. No one ran 2:34 on a legit marathon course today,

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Wow internet warrior without any backing other than previous times.
Hanson is a demon runner, not a surprise that he was pushed to a PB and record.
I will say the pros looked very close. Maybe 3-4metres tops so take what you will from that.

Bike was 176.5km.
Run was 41.95km and longer than last year due to a little extra at turn around and by swim zig zag.

Times are legit. Sure Austria is notorious for being short and also a current assisted swim often.

This swim was just over for me so bar the small bike course issue no issue. And clearly Starky would have still been sub 4 even on a 180km course so massive Kudos.

Hanson ran a legit 2:34.
Deal with it. Strava is there for you to check and argue with.

But yes, clearly age groupers were in massive blatant draft packs and no Marshal's issuing penalties. It was horrfic.
Didn't see it last year at all so a big shame on a great race.

Check Strava before you accuse in the wrong.

41.95km. and you can add 250m for transition if you really want.
Roth by comparison has the shortest transition known to man.

Time is legit.

I do like Hanson and would like to seem him break out. One side story no one has mentioned (and everyone will groan when I bring up)...the Ironman Brand world record time was set by a guy who was riding a disc brake bike. I think somehow there must be some link somehow to the disc brakes and how well Hanson ran off the bike (pink)

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Well interestingly enough, and believe I have a lot of inside baseball I won't be talking about, but Matt and Ivan ran within 3 seconds of each a few weeks back at Galveston 70.3. However the delta was more like 7 minutes on the bike.

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SO how about the guy that posted this up? Also from strava? I know when I raced at the pointy end I took advantage of every tangent available, so I certainly would have been on the 25.2 end of this scale. My guess is Matt and other pros race the same way. As for you AG'ers that run against the curb the whole way, well good for you... (-;




"Bike was same as last year, people strava are showing 25.2-25.7 on the run. But heard from people that raced: lots of people where cutting the corners on the run. The 25.7 on Strava from a friend I know is accurate since I know he would not cut the corners, last year I had 25.8 on my garmin. So its a short course but no different then last year."

Transitions were 400m and 500m also.

Crazy IM aren't recognising it due to the 2 mile short bike. I swam long at 3955 but others seem to have 3850 or so at least.

Does anyone have Strava for Brazil for all swim bike run transition?

Agreed.

Bob Babbit told me that the only Boston qualifier course is Kona so everything else is not certified.

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Transitions were 400m and 500m also. //

Transitions are not counted in split times anymore, haven't been for quite sometime. But they were counted in the old days when I raced, thus the 2;38 Mark Allen actually ran at Kona is shown to be a 2;40 flat. Whatever the transition times or distances were, they are irrelevant to the split times they give you guys now...

IM Lou course was certified as well.

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Cool. It would be nice if they all were but the reality is the distances usually vary. Even on the much shorter ITU Olympic distance courses which have a massive budget.

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Oh really? I had no idea......good to know!

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i see 109.5 for bike, 26.0 for the run via a buddy's strava who went sub 10
...fly by athletes show similar

As an ex runner I run pretty good tangents, started my watch a little late while it got signal, and was at 26.0. Admittedly dont run lines as good as pros but doubtful it's worth a mile.

I had 1 pro women in the field (jen Annett)

- bike: 177km she rode 4:24:49. Had the distance been accurate, it would had been a world record by over 5min (guessing 4:29)

- run: 41.8km so 400m short. For the top 2 runner, that s 90secondes. So a little short but still a world class run

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I assumed this had already been posted as I'm just getting home. But I echo pretty much everything to the letter.

I had it at 110. I had the run about a quarter mile short, but could be GPS being off under the trees.

But the drafting pissed me off and I am just a guy trying to finish. I finished my swim in 1:15 which isnt lightening fast obviously, but there were tons of strong bikers coming up behind me. I probably saw 4 or more pelatons of 40+ people. And at the end, would be some schmuk I passed up 10 miles earlier who latched on to the back only to have to pass them again when they fell off. and it was always the at the section with bridges and the guy would slam the uphill to pass then coast making me pass until we got to a flat long enough for me to drop them. I did not see a single Marshall the entire day. Not a single one.

My garmin for the run was 26.18 miles with a really long walk/run time. I messed up my bike computer so I can't help there. Total draft fest as reported and I also did not see a single draft marshal, large packs with some pretty significant crashes as well. The emergency response and medical staff were seemed to be kept very busy.

JOOC - Was it wetsuit legal for AGers??? What about for pros??? Despite her finishing out of the women's top 10, i thought it was cool that Lauren Brandon had the fastest swim split of ALL pros, male and female!!! I think her swim was around 49:15-ish.

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Pro - Not Legal
AG - Legal

Ah great, thanks!!!

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