According to the facebook IM Los Cabos page 2017 is the final year. Not a surprise…wonder if 2018 will find a contraction of IMs and reallocation of slots.
I have been contemplating for 4 months about doing this race.
I have been a bit concerned with the low entry numbers that if I sign up it may cancel anyways.
It is in a tough time of year to get high numbers.
KONA OCT
Louisville OCT
Florida NOV
Arizona NOV
Cozumel NOV
It seems to be the harder one people don’t want to do. Hope it makes it to November this year at least.
From the North East (Ontario) it is one of the harder courses to get to.
I did it the first year and really enjoyed it. Nice vacation spot, tough bike course and great crowd support. I don’t think I would have went back but sad to see it not succeed.
I did it the first year and really enjoyed it. Nice vacation spot, tough bike course and great crowd support. I don’t think I would have went back but sad to see it not succeed.
I think the move from March to October really hurt the race.
That’s definitely possible. It’s competing with many established races at the same time. Although it’s also a good opportunity to qualify for Kona.
Kona is at the same time, many of the fast people are there and it’s far enough from Europe and Oz/NZ that the other fast folks are unlikely to go.
With that said, there are several races that are normally full, which are still open, like IMFL. Maybe we’re just getting to the point of saturation, on top of a bad date.
It’s a bummer though. It would be nice to have races that are not full, and have less congested courses.
There’s a huge difference between IMFL not selling out and IM Los Cabos. The former probably has well over 2000 already registered and the latter won’t hit 500 by race day. When they moved Los Cabos to the fall they basically put it head to head with Cozumel which was more established and flat. Yeah, they are on the opposite sides of the country, but for folks coming from far away the question is which Ironman Mexico should I do? It also doesn’t help that there is a US State Dept travel advisory on the Los Cabos area but not for Cancun/Cozumel.
I didn’t know it was that low.
According to the facebook IM Los Cabos page 2017 is the final year. Not a surprise…**wonder if 2018 will find a contraction of IMs **and reallocation of slots.
Meanwhile, I’m registered for the inaugural Ironman Haugesund (Norway). So yeah, 30 of those slots from Los Cabos were reallocated up north.
I didn’t know it was that low. And I was being generous. Looks like they have 332 on the starter list as of today. Frankly, I was amazed they didn’t kill it after last year.
I don’t think you will get more than 300 people signed up this year after the whole tainting alcohol incidents.
I know someone that is signed up for this race purely to KQ. With the smaller field and the same amount of slots allocated as many of the bigger races it seems like a great chances, if your willing to spend the money on the travel.
Still trying to figure out how they thought it was a good idea to change the race date to the fall. Potentially to intentionally kill it and put out a different venue somewhere else, or just to allocate more spots at other races?
“I don’t think you will get more than 300 people signed up this year after the whole tainting alcohol incidents.”
What incident, what did I miss? Thank you.
This I assume - http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2017/07/28/amid-more-blackout-reports-mexico-says-take-action-tainted-alcohol-resorts/519101001/
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I did this race in 2014 and have been seriously considering returning this year due to the low numbers of entrants. Never a better chance to KQ. However, this news from yesterday has me reconsidering. This is the site of swim/T1
Damn.
This is pretty brazen too since the getaway from that beach is via a single road…
I was thinking of racing this race with aim of another KQ but man, 230 people killed tainted alcohol, WTF.
I am in the same thought process but…
How often do these thing happen in the cities we all ready live in and visit.
My biggest concern for this race isn’t my safety during or before the event. But rather the event it self has such low numbers, will they fold it and give race transfers if it stays under 500???
Once I have booked and paid for everything?
I was thinking of racing this race with aim of another KQ but man, 230 people killed tainted alcohol, WTF.
How often do we drink during an Ironman week? And after if you stick to beer no problem.
I’d be more worried about the 3 people shot at Palmilla Beach yesterday (where this race starts). In the article posted above ^^^
I was thinking of racing this race with aim of another KQ but man, 230 people killed tainted alcohol, WTF.
How often do we drink during an Ironman week? And after if you stick to beer no problem.
I’d be more worried about the 3 people shot at Palmilla Beach yesterday (where this race starts). In the article posted above ^^^
Agreed the shooting is more disturbing…I like to pretend like i am going to party and take shots of tequila post race! Odds of that actually happening? Slim to none, lol…looking of plane tickets now to Cabo.