This fine race deserves at least one last thread dedicated to it.
Coverage Is found at: .http://stgeorge.ironmanlive.com/#axzz1twx7GvLM
The weather forecast is calling for a high of 85 degrees with 10mph winds. Reports are that the water at Sand Hollow State Park is “comfortable”. Be sure to join us tomorrow starting at 8:30am EST/6:30am MST for our coverage of what promises to be an exciting race.
It looks like the weather will be pretty reasonable for those racing.
Hugh
Good luck to all racers today. Enjoy the 140.6 mile victory lap…work is done!
Good luck to all.
They hype their new race coverage and it is…5 fixed cameras for us to stare at! pass
They hype their new race coverage and it is…5 fixed cameras for us to stare at! pass
Yeah, but it does show that the wind started to really rip less than 10 minutes into the swim.
Hugh
I have the live coverage on and all they are showing is the finishing Shute, I guess they are not covering any of the swim? Never mind, just realized they have different channels.
10 mph winds? looks like the wind is howling out there !
10 mph winds? looks like the wind is howling out there !
Yes, I could see white caps on the lake so over 12mph down there. But:
Heather Wurtele in the lead car is reporting that the winds are much calmer as the riders have come up from Sand Hollow State Park and are approaching St. George.
If you got to the bottom of the page at:
http://stgeorge.ironmanlive.com/
You can click on T1 for bike start coverage. There are 5 links for cameras at the bottom.
Either Athlete Tracker is completely F###ed up (wouldn’t be a huge surprise) or a huge number of athletes didn’t make the swim cutoff today.
I noticed the same… frustrating. For some reason I’m guessing that the tracker is fubar’ed versus thinking that half of the M35-39 age group didn’t finish the swim. It still shows a swim time for those who didn’t make the cutoff but still crossed the mat.
If the video is real time, there are a ton of bikes still sitting in transition 15 minutes after the swim cutoff.
10 mph winds? looks like the wind is howling out there !
The wind is gusting so strong out between Gunlock & Veyo that Ben Hoffman was blown off the road and had to unclip and remount his bike.
If the video is real time, there are a ton of bikes still sitting in transition 15 minutes after the swim cutoff.
See that. We need to demand a rule change to offer more time to people to get comfortably out of the water at their leisure and make it to the bike course. It is all so unfair.
Sounds like a really rough day out there. If WTC had not killed the 140.6, the news of a very hard swim on top of an already difficult course would have likely reduced numbers further. Hopefully this does not discourage folks from the 70.3 next year.
Yes very hard conditions, high winds 40mph.
About 100 did not make the swim cut off or were pulled out of the water…
Yes very hard conditions, high winds 40mph.
About 100 did not make the swim cut off or were pulled out of the water…
Marc,
Was there a large DNS component today? It looks like way more than 100 not making the swim if you just check a few categories.
Hugh
The swim times and DNF swim numbers are crazy
One of last years AG winner had 20 minutes slower swim this year
Weather update?
Yes very hard conditions, high winds 40mph.
About 100 did not make the swim cut off or were pulled out of the water…
I count 107 with times over 2:20. That doesn’t take into account any pulled from the water.
I was thinking the same thing about the DNS numbers. I was trying to track a friend who should be a top 20% 45-49er, is a strong swimmer and was very ready for IMSG but I can’t find him. Looking at the age groups there are huge #s of DNS. I thought the timing might be off somehow? Strange. Looking forward to hearing more about why this happened today.