an amazing run. Looks like the third fastest run including the men pros. Not a bad time overall either. Looking forward to her and Chrissie being on the same course together.
9 CARFRAE, Mirinda 4/1/1 /WPRO 00:27:29 02:20:20 01:19:45 04:11:05
That is very, very impressive - especially on that course!
Oh, how I wish she’d beaten Kirk Nelson - we would’ve given him unending crap for that one! To be chick’d with a 1:20 half-mary…
Looks like a good day for Boulder! Way to represent!
That is very, very impressive - especially on that course!
Oh, how I wish she’d beaten Kirk Nelson - we would’ve given him unending crap for that one! To be chick’d with a 1:20 half-mary…
Looks like a good day for Boulder! Way to represent!
The time is less impressive than the fact that she only finished about 15 minutes down on the men’s winner, especially when the winner is a fast man (you don’t set the course record at a course like St. Croix without having the complete package).
That is very, very impressive - especially on that course!
Oh, how I wish she’d beaten Kirk Nelson - we would’ve given him unending crap for that one! To be chick’d with a 1:20 half-mary…
Looks like a good day for Boulder! Way to represent!
The time is less impressive than the fact that she only finished about 15 minutes down on the men’s winner, especially when the winner is a fast man (you don’t set the course record at a course like St. Croix without having the complete package).
I agree, the time itself is not what is so impressive. Mirinda herself has gone faster on a couple of occasions. But, to be so close to a ‘A’ caliber male winner with a half run time within 2 minutes of his best time (with no one pushing her except herself) is extraordinary me thinks.
She has always been fast but what is making her better this year is she is, also, posting the fastest bike splits. She, I don’t believe, ever did this in any race before this year (we will take some of the credit in this regards). How she will hold up against the very best women like Chrissie is still up in the air but Kona this year should be a great race with her there.
She’s also swimming much faster, which is likely a big part of why she’s riding better. Easier to ride fast when you are in the race right out of the water. Lisa Mensink is a very good swimmer, so for Mirinda to come out close to her is a big improvement. It’s much easier to stay at the front biking that it is to get to the front.
what drugs make you better at swimming?
maybe an IQ enhancing drug?
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Please all be aware that the route on the bike is cited by race organizers repeatedly as 56 miles (90 km) (organizers use this stat absolutely everywhere) then in the results the bike course length is stated to be 94 kilometers when the average speeds are calculated. On my computer today I covered 96.4 kilometers. This includes about 300 yards from my bike rack to the mount line and 200 yards from the dismount line to my bike rack.
4-5.5 kilometers makes a siginificant difference when you start talking about the times being comparable to other courses. This course should not be compared with other courses that are exactly 56 miles without taking this into account. This amounts to about 6 minutes for the athletes who are going to split above 25 miles per hour.
Tim O’Donnell would have gone below 3:50 with this factored in… same deal for the ladies.
Other anecdotes about the race:
With the point to point bike course there is such thing as ‘net wind’ and there was net tailwind today that started to blow well after the pros had started so some of the AGs bike speeds are slightly inflated. The M30-34 and M18-29 and F18-24 are the ones that are most strongly affected by the wind as they started in the last waves. Their total times however do not correlate unfairly as they were forced to run later in the afternoon in the heat. Despite occuring in a park there was very little shade and many athletes had run times that significantly suffered compared to their potential just due to the heat of the day. The height of the waves in the swim increased as this wind started to pick up so those athletes who would benefit most from the tailwind were duly punished on the other legs. But hey, I’ll take a bike split faster than 25 mph in exchange for breathing in some more water than I normally would. Trading for a visit to the medical tent at the finish line with heatstroke isn’t worth the 25 mph ride, I’d have been happy with the 23-24 if the heat didn’t kill me on the run.
I’ll be posting a bit of a race review shortly for those of you who are interested in considering this race in the future. Overall they did good for an inaugural event but there were some errors made on the part of the organizers.
Agree with you on all points, the later crowd had to deal with bigger waves in the swim. Overall a good first event, however whose bright idea was it to put an aid station on a downhill, lots of crashes and missed waterbottles. Not only put the cyclists in danger but also the volunteers, whom I felt sorry for as they probably felt bad about not getting the cyclists what they needed, but really not their fault, its pretty hard to get a bottle to someone going by at 40-50kmh.
The whole race was a blast. The 10-min. wave starts really spread out the race, so clusters & drafting was minimal. Fun but choppy swim in a nice lake, awesome, beautiful bike course, challenging run. Really well-organized and well-run. Highly recommended.