IRONMAN 70.3 Eagleman - Sunday 8th June
Men’s Pro Race starts 5:45 a.m. ET (9.45 UTC, 11.45 CEST)
Pro Women going off five minutes later. Another 5 minutes to the amateurs.
For all the weird events and bike tours necessitating overnight rides/runs and multi-day focus I have done, I would say that human sleep patterns are quite “trainable”. Mind you ,this comes from somebody who just doesn’t understand what this, “Flying from time zone to time zone for races is hard on us”, is all about.
For as long as I have been doing long races we always accepted that,if you rested enough in the days leading up to the race,not getting a lots of sleep the night before is not an issue.
Agree with the “if [you’re] rested enough . . . not getting a lots of sleep the night before is not an issue” but that’s a different aspect to the premise:
“Optimal athletic performance doesn’t happen until 3-4h after waking,”
For important running events with early starts e.g. before 10am, it was my common practice (and widespread by the serious /elites) to get an early morning jog in to ‘bring my body clock forward’.
Triathlon (because of logistic/prep burden, the huge amateur tail and road closure/opening pressures) starts not just early but silly early, and the idea of a first thing jog isn’t going to happen. You’d think the “[sub-]optimal athletic performance” is the same for everyone, but larks and night-owls differ.
Peak performance differs significantly between early and late chronotypes i.e. ‘larks’ and ‘owls’ in simple and complex measures of cognitive and physical performance.
Our findings could be of significant interest for elite performance settings . . . by providing coaches, managers and teams a greater understanding of how to achieve an advantageous edge over competitors.
Can you explain this? The swim course is pretty close to the shoreline relative to the river width. Even if there was a substantial tidal current, couldn’t they just have the into-the-current side along the shore and with-the-current side further into the river?
At the age group level, you can literally sleep through the swim and first part of the bike. That should get one to arund 3 hrs past wake up time !!! So you wake up at 30km into the bike and now you’re awake for 60km of the bike and 21.1 km of running to make up for taking it too easy and sleeping through the first 1.5 hrs of racing!!!
I think generally people make this mistake of thinking they need to be “on” from the gun. At the age group level, it’s not that important. You really only have 2 hrs of high octane burn to give in any race, so whether you hare a 4, 5, or 6 hrs finisher, you can literally cruise 2/3/4 hrs of racing because you only get to apply your high octane glycogen for so long and pointless to use it up hammering the swim and early in the bike
Well he looks to have traveled. Perhaps Eagleman is just a Long work out en route to IMLP. https://www.instagram.com/p/DKlDcKMMe0n/
Sure hope the bike and run go better than St George.
Yeah,the boys mentioned that here. It was funny to hear Mark and Patrick say that they don’t care about this race. I am kind of feeling the same way but I’ll still have it on in the background no doubt.
I would think he at least wants a race where his bike doesn’t fall apart and he gets to go through all the motions. Give him confidence going into Placid.
Well I guess that, despite it being an IM Pro Series race, few athletes listed are going to be players in the Series, then as Morgan Pearson might say: ‘who cares?’
MPro Long is going through the motions: with LS’s scratching he’ll have time to ponder his rationale for choosing this, trekking over to MD a week before T100 Vancouver rather than manning up, diving off the ferry and racing when the swim gap is minimised and full fortnight to regenerate.
I hope Foley fires on all cylinders, if only for @Kyle.glass@Kyleglass91 's equanimity. Harper can spoil the swim prime that Kanute and Appo could otherwise fight for.
Can an (ex-)SC athlete like McElroy rider faster than his form predicts?
IM Pro Series? Kanute and Schuster (latter will also need to race Swansea or Zell-am-See after his 1000 seconds ‘no show’ at Aix).
WPro
I assume LCB will race alone from gun to tape. This will also validate her Marbella slot.
Behind her Sodaro and Jewett will fight between themselves for ‘Wheel 2’ to start with - or maybe Alexander with Aussie grit will tow them round for 90km. Sodaro will want a gap of a least 2 minutes leaving T2 so I expect her to make a break for it once they turn back towards Cambridge. The bike course hasn’t got that many turns though so Jewett might hold on (NB only 6 weeks after her IM debut). Becharas will power up on the bike and when she catches them maybe that’s the moment for Sodaro to go for it. Kleiser likes to give herself a massive handicap in the water and then hope she’s in range starting the run. Will be interesting to see if she runs faster than Jewett again (she did in Taupo). Alberts (who rode within 5 minutes of Knibb in Texas!) and Jewett hope to feature in the IM Pro Series. Key for Jewett is getting a slot for Marbella, though maybe she will score better here than in November when almost every hot shot will be racing.
I can’t confirm 100% but pretty certain we just passed Cam walking back from bike check. If it wasn’t him than he has an absolute banger of a doppelgänger competing.
