Marbella has moved to October for 2024 and dropped the ‘Tri Club Championship’ title
At a guess, so they in the right time frame for the 70.3 finals in 2025?An October date would clash fairly directly (or seriously interfere with both IMWC (men) Nice and IMWC (women) Kona, no? This year the Lahti date was already set and Nice forced onto the weekend a fortnight later. In 2024 and assume 25 Nice is scheduled for late September.
70.3WC has to go for August or (earliest) mid-November. The latter would drive it to the southern hemisphere I’d have thought.
Or maybe the overlap of paying clientele (and Pros) is not significant.
The PRO race was a B race this year and no disaster struck - Ironman is fine with it.
The age group race will always be filled because there are several (maybe even 10) times as many people racing 70.3s as there are people racing Ironmans. Enough of them will not care about the field being “watered down†or whatever. Doesn’t have to be a large percentage. It’s a percentage of a big number.
Marbella is a terrific place for a triathlon, and Ironman has a strong presence in Spain already. But push the date beyond October and it’s too cold probably. Try doing it in the spring and you have too few races carrying slots. (I hope I didn’t just contradict myself)
Marbella has moved to October for 2024 and dropped the ‘Tri Club Championship’ title
At a guess, so they in the right time frame for the 70.3 finals in 2025?An October date would clash fairly directly (or seriously interfere with both IMWC (men) Nice and IMWC (women) Kona, no? This year the Lahti date was already set and Nice forced onto the weekend a fortnight later. In 2024 and assume 25 Nice is scheduled for late September.
70.3WC has to go for August or (earliest) mid-November. The latter would drive it to the southern hemisphere I’d have thought.
Or maybe the overlap of paying clientele (and Pros) is not significant.
In the other thread where I posted about the Marbella date change someone with insider knowledge had posted previously that the 2025 70.3 IMWC date is set for early November (wherever it is held).
For the pros the scheduling 2 weeks apart far from ideal but for the AG quite a few men did both the top podium level guys probably not but that’s about 100 of the total 6000 in lahti the rest of us are pack fill so it doesn’t matter
Ideally though a bigger gap but I’d guess needs to be at least 6 weeks or more before Nice to be able to get some of those guys racing, the timing in 2019 was nice early sep then smash Kona mid Oct so 5 or 6 weeks gap which the pros seemed to handle OK?
The issue I see with Marbella (I live there) it´s the transition area for…6000 triathletes?Not possible in the actual spot .
And the running course looks too narrow for that many triathletes.
The issue I see with Marbella (I live there) it´s the transition area for…6000 triathletes?Not possible in the actual spot .
And the running course looks too narrow for that many triathletes.
6000 over two days, transitions need to support 3000 on ONE day at a time. And courses also have to cover that. This should not be that bad to have 3000 athlete who start spaced out by 90 min on the swim to over a 10.55 km loop all spread out later on the run. It never felt croweded at Lahti or St. George on the “single path width” sections" (aside from the rude people who feel like they have to body check other runners on early loops as they are heading on their finishing loops to the finish)
I guess it would be around 19-21ºC , it depends a bit on currents (west brings colder). But not bad at all , you can swim here the whole year with a wetsuit.
Coldest can get , january-february , its around16ºC.
Uhm, I said „beyond Octoberâ€, and I think water temperature could be an issue in November? Correct me if I’m wrong, by all means…
Uhm, I said „beyond Octoberâ€, and I think water temperature could be an issue in November? Correct me if I’m wrong, by all means…I guess it would be around 19-21ºC , it depends a bit on currents (west brings colder). But not bad at all , you can swim here the whole year with a wetsuit.
Coldest can get , january-february , it’s around16ºC.Iirc last (late) October at St George the water temperature was <15 ºC (sub 60 ºF) for the women, at least.
If it were in Poland their food is awesome–Poles know how to cook. Plus, you could practice your Kashube language…(look that one up for a little history lesson).
I’m increasingly curious about how Poland entered the conversation all of a sudden… with three IM-branded 70.3s and one 140.6 and the (even better) half-distance Challenge race, we can do the Slowtwitch championship, hit me up for any logistics questions LOL
Uhm, I said „beyond Octoberâ€, and I think water temperature could be an issue in November? Correct me if I’m wrong, by all means…I guess it would be around 19-21ºC , it depends a bit on currents (west brings colder). But not bad at all , you can swim here the whole year with a wetsuit.
Coldest can get , january-february , it’s around16ºC.Iirc last (late) October at St George the water temperature was <15 ºC (sub 60 ºF) for the women, at least.
Thats not how I remember it.
Thought the water temps was pretty nice.
It was air temp that was cold in the morning.
Particularly for the female race.
Uhm, I said „beyond Octoberâ€, and I think water temperature could be an issue in November? Correct me if I’m wrong, by all means…I guess it would be around 19-21ºC , it depends a bit on currents (west brings colder). But not bad at all , you can swim here the whole year with a wetsuit.
Coldest can get , january-february , it’s around16ºC.Iirc last (late) October at St George the water temperature was <15 ºC (sub 60 ºF) for the women, at least.
Thats not how I remember it.
Thought the water temps was pretty nice.
It was air temp that was cold in the morning.
Particularly for the female race.
My memory is that water temp was low 60s and air temp low 40s for women, mid-40s for men. I don’t like the cold and I was pretty uncomfortable on the long run from the wetsuit strippers at the water’s edge to transition as well the first 15-20 minutes of the bike. But all in all, it was pretty manageable.
I’m increasingly curious about how Poland entered the conversation all of a sudden… with three IM-branded 70.3s and one 140.6 and the (even better) half-distance Challenge race, we can do the Slowtwitch championship, hit me up for any logistics questions LOL
I just re-read this whole thread to see if I’d missed a post where someone popped up with insider information on Poland being a contender…I couldn’t find one so am also baffled.
Triingtotrain mentioned Estonia, and I think Rdaitch just mistook Estonia for Poland. Which is fine. Polish and Estonian people don’t really take offence at being conflated with other countries, other than Russia of course
Uhm, I said „beyond Octoberâ€, and I think water temperature could be an issue in November? Correct me if I’m wrong, by all means…I guess it would be around 19-21ºC , it depends a bit on currents (west brings colder). But not bad at all , you can swim here the whole year with a wetsuit.
Coldest can get , january-february , it’s around16ºC.Iirc last (late) October at St George the water temperature was <15 ºC (sub 60 ºF) for the women, at least.
Thats not how I remember it.
Thought the water temps was pretty nice.
It was air temp that was cold in the morning.
Particularly for the female race.
My memory is that water temp was low 60s and air temp low 40s for women, mid-40s for men. I don’t like the cold and I was pretty uncomfortable on the long run from the wetsuit strippers at the water’s edge to transition as well the first 15-20 minutes of the bike. But all in all, it was pretty manageable.
You can’t say wetsuit strippers any longer…you must use the term wetsuit “peelers”.
