I’ve been seeing his IG over the last week of him training in Colombia (riding with Egan Bernal). And this morning it showed him in the transition area, and sure enough on the IM tracker racing. He’s second out of the water +3min down (one guy swam 21:50 @ 1:09/100m which is fairly insane).
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Is he just having fun doing a race/holiday in Colombia? Yeah, I got that same video in my fb feed of him and Bernal cruising along
More like an addict trying to get his next fix!
45km into the bike and he’s 5:30 ahead of 2nd place
I imagine he was paid a healthy appearance fee.
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He said in his last video he wants to go to different places and race. He said also he was going to race this as he raced there in short course and loved the area and always wanted to go back.
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How does this work for awards ? Is he just not included for awards (I assume) and just gets a race time ?
Ok I see in tracker be is categorized as MPro so it’s just that he gets no MPro points or $$$ so first age grouper would ‘win’ the age grouper race overall
Ok he is in with a 25/2:03/1:11 day. That swim looks was slow though.
Not much to add but Cartagena 70.3 was perhaps the best 70.3 I’ve done. Super cool city, EZ to get to, from the east coast anyway. Do your heat prep if you go!
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What’s the bike course like? I assume no wetsuit swim in ocean?
When I did it the bike course was just a closed highway, similar to maybe PR 70.3 or Galveston, nothing special. Swim was in an inlet similar to Oceanside when it’s not in the surf, crazy hot water. Run course is the star, all through the walked city. just checking out Cartagena itself is the real reason to go.
This race will never be wetsuit legal. I think the water temp was 88 degrees the year I did it. It’s in a marina.
The bike course is mildly rolling for the most part. It’s a 28 mile out and back. There’s a climb to the turn around. I want to say I had like 2,500 feet of gain. Not super hilly or anything but not close to flat either.
The run course is mostly flat. Just some up and downs running around the streets in the Walled City. The year I did it we ran on top of the wall.
It’s unreal hot and humid. Heat index reached 110 the year I raced. Which made the run absolutely brutal. This race is not for folks who struggle with heat and humidity.
So did he have to walk in the water in a typical age group rolling self seeded swim start?
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Thanks, this looks like an interesting one for next Nov. I generally prefer no wetsuit swims, rolling to hilly bikes and hot runs
You’re not well
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he started alone as the only Pro- then the rest!