IronManhattan ... it's official!!!

Try Ironman New Jersey! Have you seen the course? You are in Manhattan for about .01% of the entire day!

Will be a record breaking swim. Hope they timed the tide of the Hudson!

Doesn't interest me much,  the best courses are the ones that show you are alone in the race, and not surrounded by society.  However, I do think it will be a massive boost to WTC PR.  If there's an event outside of Kona that will get people to do an IM its this.  To each his own I guess.

If not for the potentially stifiling heat & humidity (and poor air quaility) in August, would expect a lot of fast times.  Swim will be sub-60 for lots of people.  Bike course is custom made for tons of drafting (legal and otherwise).  Run is mostly flat/downhill once you are onto the GW.

so true...just like the JETS and Giants!!

My grandmother lives 10' from Manhattan in NJ (Bergen county), and my parents are only an hour from the city...SO wish I could commit to this next year.  But, alas...I cannot.  I'm probably moving in the spring.

Maybe I can commit to volunteering so I can do it for 2013!

Too bad it's not in the East River, or we would guarantee this guy in Bib #1.

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Here is the official link:

http://ironmanuschampionship.com/

Large thread already going on at ST. In regards to why they call it the championships, it sounds like bigger prize money/more Kona slots. I think the reg will be like any other albeit large demand for it.

I agree wish more of it in NYC although I understand keeping the bike in NJ, having the run more in NYC would be feasible and nicer. Either way since I live in NYC, I am planning on doing it.

My NYC Tri swim time is about 15 minutes faster than my other Oly swims because of the current.

HA!  That's awesome.  Exactly what I was picturing.    "...what's that smell???"

Anyone willing to take a gander at the registration fees?  I'm guessing north of $800. 

I would like to say 100% IN, but that all depends on the above.  It is nice to have an IM in my backyard, the savings cost on travel will most likely make this worthwhile.

FWIW, the Hudson is the cleanest it's been in over 100 years! 

I wonder what effect this will have on IMLP?

but does it still taste like Salty Diesel Fuel? I'll take Mirror Lake any day!

I think IM TX was technically the US Championship this year.  I'm not sure about the prize money or Kona slots, but if you look at the pro points they were way above the other North American IM races.  IM Frankfurt Germany is the IM "European Championship".

but its so fun to make fun of the Hudson!

Hudson river has nothing on the cuyahoga river, which has caught fire on at least 13 separate occasions.