Has anyone done both? I’m curious because bestbikesplit says that CDA is around 10 minutes faster, but the course profile looks like it’s nonstop hills and CDA actually has more total climbing. I’ve ridden the Whistler 70.3 course, so I’m familiar with most of the hills there. Never been to CDA.
I’ve done both, but I was fitter(and got a power meter because of whistler) for CDA. I did a 5:14 in cda and a 5:25 in whistler. Half of what makes whistler so hard is that the last 30k are uphill. In cda, the last 30 k are almost downhill. 99% of people go out too hard and end up paying the price. In my estimation, the courses are the same, in terms of how fast they are.