To add his strava says he rode 89.32km in 1:49:05 andbut the recorded split is 1:49:32 so the bike course was roughly 368m more or 89.69km. = 90km!
Went looking and . . .
Can you call it a record for a 70.3 with a 600m swim?
Records in triathlon are complete nonsense.
For sure. Even for the purpose of the PTN list it should get a caveat.
Very good point. No. Btw I did not call it a “record”.
As for the PTN, its rubric says “The fastest known times in professional non-drafting triathlon. This is the closest thing the sport has to a definitive record book.”
But like Texas 2018 and downcurrent swims, they should be excluded from ‘fastest’ lists - same as times for the swim or bike recorded by an athlete who then DNFs.
come on ST! comment so we can see his bike power!
Looks like 3 GuyS from that race moving into the top fastest bike split records?
Then again, they didn’t have to swim as far, so not as tired getting out of the water, so able to ride faster. Not that it really matters, but any “record” splits should have to be completed when all legs are the full distance.
Did we find out what happened to Ari? A penalty?
Was anybody there and agree with the swim shortening? The videos show the water looking fine. Is Ironman being overly cautious now with the influence in Texas?
Greg Harper and Mark Dubrick seemed pretty upset the swim was shortened, they thought it was manageable
I know the water there can be super smooth. I raced there 6 times between the 70.3 and the full. Seems every time it’s anything but smooth the RD cancels or shortens the swim. So what’s the better option? Giving the athletes a floatation device or just cancel the swim?
Well, an official rip tide warning was in affect, so I’m sure there was legitimate concern plus CYA by Ironman. I’m assuming they just swam parallel to the coastline so nobody would get swept out.
He just posted that he got a flat and lost 4 minutes.
they are professionals FFS! give the mickey mouse swim to the AGers if you really need to be this cautious just because you’re too greedy of an organization to actually impose a standard for the swim.
thanks - that’s a shame. I think minimum a podium was in the cards
I mean we can finger point at the financially opportunistic decisions of Ironman all day long, but shortening the swim when there’s a rip tide warning is not one of them. If someone got injured or died, even unrelated, they’d be destroyed.
From the looks of it, I’m guessing they pushed the shortened swim over cancelling it outright simply because they had to cancel it last year and didn’t want to do the same again. But if they hadn’t canceled it last year, I bet they would have canceled it this year.
But then it’s the constant issue of IM, regularly organizing races in locations that can’t accommodate a regular swim (e.g. South Africa, here, Chattanooga, Edinburgh, Weymouth, etc. etc.).
Either they’re very very unlucky or totally incompetent, especially if it’s a regular occurrence.
He published power numbers
359 average weighted on Strava
what is that in actual average? 1 hour he did average 366. 20 min 379.
