Subject: RE: Ironman 70.3 St. George : Official ThreadI am doing it this year, will be my first HiM, I am from STG and I volunteered the last 2 years on the run course. To me the hills aren't that bad (LOL ok I train on them all the time, I just did a portion of the bike out by hurricane and I was worried about the purgatory hill but that wasn't bad at all i still think the Snow Canyon hills are rougher). The run course is brutal this year though ran it 2 weeks ago, its 4 miles up hill, then you drop down for 1.75 and then you turn around and go right back up for 1.75. Then its a drop to the finish. I didn't run the 2 mile detour through the golf course and just did 11 of the 13 so not sure how those miles are. Conditions are what is going to make the difference, we can get some very nasty winds especially out at the start and in Hurricane (it has that name for a reason) and the heat can be way high in May. I did STG marathon in 2011 and 2012 and in 2011 it was 95 by the finish and in 2012 it was like 75 with a nice tailwind for 7 miles, so every year is like a crap shoot to what conditions you might get. we hit 80 this week so its getting warmer but a lot of time we will hit 80 and then drop back down to 50 and then back up to 90, its like a roller coaster. Going to try and ride the whole course on the 30th and then run most of the course that day too. |