If anyone is interested, I spent the day driving, biking and walking the entire Ironman New York City course. Here’s my review of the course with lots of pictures.
Thanks. You could have done it a few days earlier. I just spent a whole bunch of time writing up something similar for Ironman that I sent in to them on Monday. Next time, please operate on my schedule…
PS: the course is actually about 40/60 between NY and NJ. What most people seem to be forgetting (or missing) is that you cross the NY/NJ line at just over halfway of each loop on the bike. The upper ~2/5 of each loop on the bike is in NY; you start in NJ, ride into NY, back into NJ, back into NY, and back into NJ to finish. The run is in NJ until ~16-17mi in, when you cross the state line again going over the GWB, so again, 2/5 or so of the run is in NY as well. The only section of the course that is entirely within NJ state lines is the swim. Unless of course you are a REALLY shitty swimmer and swim to far east…
Thanks. You could have done it a few days earlier. I just spent a whole bunch of time writing up something similar for Ironman that I sent in to them on Monday. Next time, please operate on my schedule…
Any chance you can share here also?
Thanks. You could have done it a few days earlier. I just spent a whole bunch of time writing up something similar for Ironman that I sent in to them on Monday. Next time, please operate on my schedule…
Any chance you can share here also?
I’d love to see Jordan’s assessment as well.
I’ll put up a link once they post it.
Awesome review. Thanks for sharing.
I’ll put up a link once they post it.
Awesome looking forward to it.
Absolutely fantastic review! Thanks for posting.
If anyone is interested, I spent the day driving, biking and walking the entire Ironman New York City course. Here’s my review of the course with lots of pictures.
now that’s how you train for an Ironman! LOL, just kidding
Thanks for the pictures.
If anyone is interested, I spent the day driving, biking and walking the entire Ironman New York City course. Here’s my review of the course with lots of pictures.
now that’s how you train for an Ironman! LOL, just kidding
Thanks for the pictures.
I ran in the morning before I headed down to the course so it wasn’t a completely wasted day training wise.
The stairs surprised me on the bridge. So I contacted a friend that commutes into the city on his bike over the GWB often. This was his response.
“The south side has been the only one open the times I’ve crossed in the last few weeks. On the south side there are no stairs on the Jersey side and a series of ramps on the NY side.”
So there is an option that is much more elegant than the stairs. Hopefully that is the way they will route you into Manhattan.
The stairs surprised me on the bridge. So I contacted a friend that commutes into the city on his bike over the GWB often. This was his response.
“The south side has been the only one open the times I’ve crossed in the last few weeks. On the south side there are no stairs on the Jersey side and a series of ramps on the NY side.”
So there is an option that is much more elegant than the stairs. Hopefully that is the way they will route you into Manhattan.
Unfortunately not.
IMNYC website and course map states: “To access the George Washington Bridge, climb stairs to the north pedestrian path. Run approximately 1.1 miles across the bridge with full views of the Manhattan skyline, before another set of stairs exiting onto Cabrini Boulevard.”
Alright then! Glad I’m just going to be hanging around taking pictures.
The stairs don’t bother me as much as the potential for a head on bike collision with someone going to fast down a palisade hill while others are going up that hill. Mighty close even on a two lane rd, figure one lane for northbound and on lane for south, through in a downhill pass and I won’t be surprised to see some carnage. Going to have to keep head up and in the game the whole time.
The southside of GWB would be a mess trying to run a race down the spiraling ramp. I’m assuming they are leaving the southside open and opening the northside for race only - that way you don’t have to deal with the locals walking backwards into bikes, dancing across, riding 2 wide, etc. (I’ve harpooned a whale with an aerobar before on the bridge because it gyrated, backwards, into my path…)
I was just on Hudson Dr. last weekend and I was surprised to see that no repair work had been done to the road. 99% of the road is in great condition…but as the OP pointed out it’s completely shaded, which makes picking out the other 1% (specifically southbound just coming off the parkway/9w) difficult. I would anticipate many “oh shit” moments, launched bottles, and unfortunately…someone going down.
That was great, thanks.
The stairs don’t bother me as much as the potential for a head on bike collision with someone going to fast down a palisade hill while others are going up that hill. Mighty close even on a two lane rd, figure one lane for northbound and on lane for south, through in a downhill pass and I won’t be surprised to see some carnage. Going to have to keep head up and in the game the whole time.
Very good advise. There are sections on the right lane (going south in the race as it’s counter clockwise) that people will ride towards the middle of the right lane because as Kaburns mentioned " …its going to be a fairly tight fit at certain spots and some sections of the road are fairly rough especially on the extreme right hand side.
So be cautious everyone.
Yes and you can’t ride on the edge as there are these large drainage gates spaced evenly throughout. They stick out far enough that I run over them with my car tires just traveling normally.
Awesome. Thanks!