70.3 Arizona - 2017

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Hi all,

Thinking of doing the Arizona 70.3.

Can anyone fill me in with the details below. The race reviews have been a mixed.

  1. swim
  2. bike
  3. run

Thank you!

2

The swim and run course are basically the same as IMAZ. It’s the bike course that gets all the negative attention. Three loops on city streets with tons of turns.

3

Hi all,

Thinking of doing the Arizona 70.3.

Can anyone fill me in with the details below. The race reviews have been a mixed.

  1. swim
  2. bike
  3. run

Thank you!

Swim and run fine. Bike absolutely sucks. I live in AZ and would not do this race if i was able to for free.

4

i did the 2016, the bike course is a mess, lot of bumps, turns, and 15 U turn.

5

It’s not that bad, but the turns are annoying. This year, they spaced out the waves by 8 minutes, so the course wasn’t too congested. I had done Soma in the past with 800-1,000 racers and I thought they were going to put 2,500 out there on the course, but there were less than 1,200 starters.

Despite the turns, you can still put down a pretty fast time as it’s mostly flat - just a few short climbs that you do three times.

It’s hot. Easily up over 90 for most of the run - I was in an earlier wave and my GF said it was 95 when she was waiting for me to finish.