Ironman 70.3 Silverman : Official Thread (Page 10)

Anyone there yet?  Report in!   I'm getting excited to race.....

BTW I called it months ago, that it would be wetsuit legal.  Technically, it is/will be     Whether one is worn or not is a different story

I am still up in the air.  Air temps will be in the mid 60s for the swim, even though the water will be warm, and it won't really toast up until near the end of the bike.  I am not a fan of wearing a wetsuit and overheating, but not sure that will happen here?

ETA - anyone know if it's wetsuit allowed if it's a separate wave, at the end?   That's a no go for sure.

Well, that was appropriately hard, LOL.   And now I take back everything I said about the run not having that much elevation.   Basically a 2 mile climb every loop!  Fantastic day though, really had a great time.

And I simply cannot say enough good things about that de soto cooling top.  I honestly never felt the heat on the run (and I don't think it got as hot as they were predicting).

At least my race time beat my drive time Vegas to LA!   Looooong day, didn't get home until 10

yes, this was tough indeed. close to 12% dnf rate by some accounts. but this was my kinda race.

some minor bellyaching.

whoever made the wetsuit legal call, should be smacked. the water was easily 80 degrees 100 yards off the shore. i think that people who wore full suits got baked and i am sure that this did not help on the bike or the run. another thing was the freaking boats and big trucks on Shoreline drive - couldn't they have been re-routed? this was just asking for trouble. lastly, the run course was punishing enough without those hairpin turns on concrete exiting the stadium (twice!).

other than that, the race was well organized, especially the run part. all aid stations were well stocked/attended to and ice was plentiful. i had no trouble staying cool.

i will be back in 2015.

It was about 93 degrees when I finished (at around 1pm) on my watch.  I am sure that some sections on Green Valley Parkway were radiating close  to 100 degrees of heat.

I wore a full suit, and would guess that all but 2 in the AWA mens wave wore one.  It probably wasn't wetsuit legal, it was a bit warm, but I don't htink it affected my bike and run, I went about what I thought I would there.  Swim was slow for a wetsuit legal flat swim for me, someone on ST reporting an extra 200 yds or so on the swim.  I am going with that 

And yes, coming back on northsore, holy sh***t!!!   Being in the early wave my westboud lane was pretty clear, but the eastbound lane was full of riders, and I had several cars fully in my lane coming at me.  That was sketchy, not sure the RD can get a road closure in a national park.

There was a BMW traveling east pretty fast, wasn't buzzing us but too fast, a few miles later I passed him, stopped by a park ranger getting a ticket 

Guess it was warmer than I thought.   The top worked even better then.  Unfortunately, didn't help my performance 

Confirmed - the swim course was about 1.3 miles on my watch as well. looks like the second turn buoy was set up a bit too far. 

Yeah, my swim time was what I would expect would be 3-ish minutes too slow but my AG placing was about average.  Thought it might be that guys in the 45-49 wave behind me maybe werne't wearing as many wetsuits, but someone posted a bunch of strava links all showing 1.3

Congrats on your first 70.3!   Sure picked a tough one, they'll all be easy from now on