IM New Zealand šŸ‡³šŸ‡æ underway

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Surely the swim was short then?
Here are Thorstenā€™s results:
https://www.trirating.com/ironman-new-zealand-2025-analyzing-results/

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He has a manual input on his Strava of 3,800m and the new course record at 43ā€™16". 1ā€™09"/100m sounds about right for him. Only other strava I could see was 3,757m so fairly accurate.

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Nice hit out for Skipper, know he is relieved to have his Nice spot locked up. Now he can plan his season around that.

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Assuming a wetsuit swim, 43+ is right where a guy that swims 45+ in Kona should be. Was it wetsuit legal??

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TVB put out a sub 8 at age 41. Thatā€™s amazing.

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Fair enough.
Top three of all time are Sibberson (IM Frankfurt), McKensie (IM Brazil), Stratmann (IM Portugal), all in the 42s.

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Yes, and the lake was also very calm compared to what I saw in a past race.

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Iā€™m not doing a good job of tracking this rolldown, but at least 2 of the womenā€™s AGs so far have opened to ā€œany finisherā€.

Looks like 3 spots had no takers and recycled back to other AGs.

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But I thought it was Nice that didnā€™t appeal to women :man_facepalming:

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Menā€™s groups were rolling deep also, a lot is just location but also IM has the registration cost at US $1650 (Kona) or 1460 euros (Nice) :grimacing:

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So Iā€™ve been wondering about Cairns, Texas, or Taupo for my Kona qualifying plans in the future. Still havent decided, but its interesting that there are less takers in NZ. I figured it would attract anyone in the Pacific looking for a slot. Maybe this is just an aberration because so many ā€œlocalsā€ from the Pacific area just raced there at Worlds so less slot seekers came back?

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Possibly. But also keep in mind it means training through their winter.

Of course if youā€™re in the northern U.S. you may have the same problem training for Taupo.

Edit: I originally thought there would be more takers just because this is one of the earliest races for the calendar year. So I was surprised at rolldown.

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Why do they charge so much more for a world champs? Other than ā€˜because they canā€™ is there any other justification, a nicer bag, towel and medalā€¦?

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The outrageous cost of going to Hawaii with Aussie and Kiwi dollars is what is stopping people.

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I really donā€™t understand this line of reasoning. New Zealand in particular is more expensive than Europe (bar maybe Switzerland and Norway) and the trip to Hawaii costs a fraction of what it costs to travel from Europeā€¦ plus isnā€™t accommodation cheaper if you book in March?

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Right now the Kiwi dollar is worth $0.56 USD so that means the entry alone is just under $3K Kiwi dollars . That is just stupid!

In Aussie dollars it is around $2,650ā€¦Equally stupid.

I could enter Laguna Phuket Tri,fly to Thailand for the race from Oz and stay a week in a nice hotel for less than just the entry fee to Kona.

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Oh I know. All the Kona diehards just wanted to make it seem like IM couldnā€™t fill up the Nice race because it didnā€™t have the same appeal.

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Does anyone know what bike Joe is privateering? I thought there was discussion about him no longer being on the Argon, but is that the case?

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Clearly posted about his Argon bike three days ago on Instagram

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Ah, ok - didnā€™t think to check the social media, thanks for clearing that up.

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