Jump to content

Ironman 70.3 Durban


JScottP

Recommended Posts

Well so happy to have finished considering my itb started giving me trouble half way through the cycle and I had to walk most of the run. Swim was okay except for coming back in. But good race otherwise

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 371
  • Created
  • Last Reply

What were the sea conditions like...?

 

 

I found it fine going out, but got hammered on the way in, wrong place wrong time... A big wave landed on me, and I just rolled for what seemed like ages. Otherwise not too bad.

post-49286-0-75679900-1438585002_thumb.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If anything their arrival has made the 70.3 East London bags and medals look worse...

Old post but glad someone mentioned the medals. Compared to my Slanghoek medal the 70.3 medal is a shocker!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hey... that was awesome!!.. my first IM 70.3 and first of that distance. .. did two sprints this year, new to triathlons.. goal was to finish and I managed a very happy 6h56....

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Who's the guy in the 65 - 69 category? He did close on 5hrs. Pretty fekken remarkable.

That's Tim

Can run and bike with the best of them

If i'm not mistaken he won his age group at Kona

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Must say big up to everyone in the field, the swim coming in at Bike & Bean must have been tough for a lot of people as the waves were fair sized and breaking hard on the bank. Never thought to snap some pics.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

See there were only 2206 finishers out of 3000 entries. Hundreds of non starters and lots of non finishers. That must be highest attrition rate for any SA Ironman event.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I know of a few people who pulled out of cycle/run due to injury/illness, and also saw many people give up on the swim... the current was apparently quite hectic trying to get out past the back line of waves, kept pushing people back in.. A few friends compared GPS data and the swim ended up being about 2.1km

Link to comment
Share on other sites

ya i can believe that, when they were coming in it was like a diagonal line. Not straight in because of sidewash

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Something tells me this one could've hurt...

In waves like that I would have beaten everyone coming back in.

It was awesome growing up as a surfer.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Settings My Forum Content My Followed Content Forum Settings Ad Messages My Ads My Favourites My Saved Alerts My Pay Deals Help Logout