St. Anthony's bike course (1)

I just had a great race at a great event today at St. Anthony’s. I wonder about the bike course though. I know they took out a short out and back around a rotary at about mile 3 of the course. Did they add distance somewhere else to make it up?

The bike times do seem faster than earlier years, but it might have just been that the conditions were excellent this year. I went one minute faster than my best case bike split goal.