Subject: RE: Monaco 70.3 mpk - 2009-08-08 6:58 AM
According to the bike profile, after exiting T1, you head straight into a hill lasting about 25km's with an average gradient of 6.5% - something I'm not looking forward to.
During the rest of the bike leg, there are 2 other hills each between 5 & 10km's with an average gradient of around 5.5%.
The course you describe would have 8,020 feet of climbing over 56 miles which is a tremendous amount of climbing (and very unlikely to be accurate ).
According to mapmyride:
http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/monaco/monaco/640821163
The course is actually 4,738 feet of climbing over 52.6 miles. That is similar to my regular training route in the Colorado mountains. It is a lot of climbing for a triathlon course. For those who don't ride significant hills regularly, it's going to hurt pretty bad and result in a very slow bike split, probably at least 4 mph slower than on a normal 70.3 bike course.
ETA:
If the mapmyride course is correct, the fastest pro bike split in 2008 was 22.5 mph which is very slow. In my AG (M45 ) the fastest split was 18.6 mph. For comparison, the fastest bike split in M4549 at my last HIM, the Boulder Colorado 5430, which is not a flat course was 24.4 mph. Edited by breckview 2009-08-12 11:20 PM
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