There’s enough flat sections where a disc will be useful. I’m sure someone smarter than I can math it out but I always thought that the general rule was that there was no IM route where you wouldn’t bring a disc.
I heard the guy manning the Parc Plage kiosk saying it was 65 degrees but the board says it’s slightly warmer. Not sure who to believe.
Seems like every year now, perfect Saturday, terrible Sunday!!
I’m more worried about the 30mph wind gusts that are predicted for tomorrow.
Swim would be cancelled or shortened if the water is that rough.
Env Canada showing wind out of the west @ 20km/hr by 6AM. If Dev is correct, maybe that will be calm waters…
I swam in Lake Ouimet (4km from race site) and I actually got hot in my wetsuit. However, this is a small lake and may have heated up faster than Lac Tremblant.
Wind forecast looks decent for the swim. The swim course is largely sheltered from a west wind!
I don’t see any major wind gusts in the forecast I looked at so for the 140 lbs rider who asked about disc, I would say you are fine, and if I recall some math done in the past things become more stable with a disc wheel in the back if you have a deep wheel in the front vs dual deep wheels (@Rappstar I believe had some study on that)
So… How’d we all do?
I took 2 mins off my swim PB, and then gave those 2 mins back fumbling to get my arms in the trisuit in T1. Though I also hit a PB going up Duplessis and other than a port a potty stop, went well within plan.
Good for 10th in M40.
Saw 2 drafting penalties given out, lots of refs out there. Overall, very well run. My only gripe was that they wouldn’t let me back into the finish area once I’d already left, but I suppose that’s on me. (I wanted another beer and poutine)
My race just went from bad in the first 100m of the swim (I was right Lake Ouimet was way warmer than Lac Tremblant). After hyper ventilating in the cold and swimming 100m-300m half free, half backstroke I kind of got into the swim. I was hoping to swim 31.xx but ended up over 33. I spent the entire bike being passed. I biked 2:45 vs 2:37 3 years ago. I just felt weak for the entire run. Then onto the run I had to make two port potty stops at 1km and 3km. I think this is because I have been training at night between 8-10 pm because of work schedule, and my body was all off getting up at 4:30 am…normally I go to sleep around 1 am and get up at 8 am and go to work !!! Anyway, I am fixing that before Muskoka. My run was 8 min slower than three years ago . I passed zero people on the run. Zero. The world was passing me.
But here is the thing. As bad as I felt I was almost everyone in my age group was suffering because I ended up in 4th . There were only 75 of us finishing in 60-64 out of 3500 registered. I guess time catches up with us all. Maybe I was just not actually feeling shitty, and I was just feeling shitty being passed constantly like everyone in my age group.
Top two guys to their slots to Marbella. Luckily I have one from 70.3 Puerto Rico !!! Zero rolldown. Looking back though I was in better running shape in March when I was doing a lot of XC skiing and I am doing less weight bearing exercise now and its showing on the run. Losing a few weeks from a calf injury and fighting an endless cold probably did not help.
Anyway, I am unscathed for now and my “A” event is Muskoka in a few weeks.
Good job guys!
I won the W80+ age group, 1/1 with a 7:37. Had a good race, just some cramping in the beginning of the run. Beat the winner of the men’s 80+ age group by 16 min. I love this race!
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Love to know your secret.is it good genetics?
Huge congratulations to you doing a half Ironman at 80.
You absolutely rock
Pretty speedy time too,!
Also, some very good news for the sport: the top age groups in each gender were 25-29.
We must have been neck and neck all day lol. I swam and biked basically the same time as you. Ended up around 5:30ish which was good for about 50th percentile in my 30-34 age group.
Was thrilled with my swim but the hood on my handlebars broke at about km 20 on the bike. I ended up fatiguing really fast from the uncomfortable position I had to hold. Then I dropped my chain and fell off my bike around km 82 lol
Walked a bunch on the run too. I also think I took on too much carb given the heat which made the last 10k pretty much impossible. This was supposed to be my A race but now Muskoka is instead I guess
How was the heat for everyone? I must have finished just before the real heat came on, so I either never noticed near the end or got lucky with the timing.
My mom is in 80-84. She’s in the gym and pool daily, but does not know how to ride a bike. I’ll have to give her the update as I am whining about falling apart at 60-64 !!!
What is your next race? I’ll have to meet you in real life!
@rrheisler can you interview @ngrabow ?
haha, we can have a rematch in Muskoka at our respective A races!!! I better be biking and running faster by then !!!
I was running too slow for heat to build up LOL!
Thanks!
I didn’t hear your name announced or would have introduced myself.
Doing races I can drive to so did Eagleman 2 weeks ago (sub 7 hours) and then will do Musselman in 3 weeks. Another race I love. Congrats on 4th
Ok so you’re over 80 driving around half of the East coast of North America, doing half IM races two to three weeks apart !!!
OK folks, nothing to see here, get back to all the perfectly curated coached programs. You should never do three races in 5 weeks driving 3000km between them and hope to perform!!! @ThailandUltras this woman is sets the bar of everything we were whining about in the “other thread”
That is awesome. I hope to be able to do that when I’m 80. This was my first race of 5 this season. One race every 4-5 weeks through October included two fulls. Had a few issues that slowed me down but finished in 5:05 in 55-59, good for 7th place.