bradwentzel Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 Westerly wind will mean you will FLY on the cycle. Well on the back end of the course at least. Through town, not so much.
Jeepdude Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 Holy Cow! gonna be some srious wind sunday clearly calm before the storm saturday.. i would not want to be on a TT bike with Deep sections along the coast line sunday morning
Jeepdude Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 on the other hand like you said.... will be flying int town! but up the hill to the turn around is not gonna be fun
Jeepdude Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 When the conditions are really they bad they normally draw 10 names from a list of everyone doing the IM for the first time. Then they send these guys out on one of the swim laps before the race starts. Should 6 or more return then the race continues. If less than 6 swimmers retiurn they change it onto a Duathlon.lol!!!! lucky i did not read that before my first.. would have wet myself
Tubehunter Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) Good luck to everyone giving this a go. Hope the wind is not as hectic as the charts! I wouldn't worry about the wave height. The period is more important. This tells you the volume of water between a midpoint to a crest through the trough and back to the midpoint. Period is what translates into big and powerful surf at the beach. The other bigger factor is the swell direction, which looks more westerly than from the south. Chances are the swell window for the bay means it will miss it all together. Maybe some PE surfer will know which direction is relevant and can give better insight there. As an example though, 4m of swell at 8 secs period will be roughly half the size of swell in the exact same direction that is 1.5m and 15 secs. End of waveforecasting lessons for today! Edited April 17, 2012 by Tubehunter
Metzet Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 What's everyone's personal goals for Sunday ?? (all factors going well on the day) Here's mine.. Swim : 1h30T1 : 5minBike : Sub 6hrT2 : 5minRun : 5h30 Total ~13h10 (sub 13hr would be great )
Wile E. Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 What's everyone's personal goals for Sunday ?? (all factors going well on the day) Here's mine.. Swim : 1h30T1 : 5minBike : Sub 6hrT2 : 5minRun : 5h30 Total ~13h10 (sub 13hr would be great ) Not much of a runner, eh? Or is that in anticipation of bonking?
petatodd Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 Not much of a runner, eh? Or is that in anticipation of bonking?Is that allowed en route in Ironman?
Wile E. Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 Is that allowed en route in Ironman? Only is specially demarcated areas and under the supervision of a race referee
FlatCruiser Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 [You can go under 13hrs - it's all in the runMy goal is to go under 12 this year - 1h20 swim, 5h45 ride and 4hr30 run 12min for T1+T2 quote name='Metzet' timestamp='1334730028' post='1635287]What's everyone's personal goals for Sunday ?? (all factors going well on the day) Here's mine.. Swim : 1h30T1 : 5minBike : Sub 6hrT2 : 5minRun : 5h30 Total ~13h10 (sub 13hr would be great )
Metzet Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 Not much of a runner, eh? Or is that in anticipation of bonking? more in anticipation of windguru's 50-60km/h predicted winds..
Milkworx Posted April 20, 2012 Posted April 20, 2012 (edited) Press release from weathersahttp://metzone.weath...%20FORECAST.pdf Good luck guys!!! Edited April 20, 2012 by Milkworx
mon-goose Posted April 20, 2012 Posted April 20, 2012 all the best everyone. You've hopefully done as much prep as you can and now you just need to enjoy it and have fun.... am very jealous of all of you taking part. Maybe one day I'll be able to
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