Lucy Charles-Barclay, in 2019, only did a 4:24
This is someone with two sub-9 finishes at Kona and an 8:30 at Roth…
Maybe @chickenboy can give us a bit of a run down of his results and why it’s “slow” ?
(I think he also did it in 2016 and 2015, too…is he in again?)
Is it the run up to the castle that is the killer?
In 2019, only one athlete went sub-4.
and just 36 went under 4:30 (from ~2,100)
163 went under five hours.
2018 appears to be a quicker year…
…so…it’s the start of winter and this is a long way off.
There was no way in October 2018 I’d have said I’d do a 4:27 at the 113, I might go the opposite way this year.
A bit early to start talking numbers and targets.
I will just follow the same plan as last year:
try to get my swimming under 30 minutes.
run a half marathon in March somewhere between 1:20-25
get my power up to 280W and my weight down to 78kg…( which gives me a BBS of 2:45 !!! )
i’m worried i’m going to open my front door to find you standing there with a chucky mask on, haha
2017, run around shugborough, very hot 32deg i think, cramped up badly, shocking run
2018, planned DNF with achilles prob (honest)
2019, kinda ok’ish run, cramp again off bike first 3 miles on and off then found some rhthym, the hill to the castle x2 deffo slows times down compared the the run course from previous year, i think 2018 run was slightly short too. 0.3miles
first 20km of bike is through twisty undulating country lanes, blind bends, gravel across the tarmac, so caution always advised, it then opens up and hammertime.
Lucy Charles ran past me this year, she’s not normal
stalking all good, i deffo do it when the startlists are out to see if the old regulars are turning up.
2018 faster for copenhagen and staffs because i bought a proper TT bike, cervelo P3, i’d been using my home made ( ebay bits) cannondale slice which was getting a bit knackered. big difference for copenhagen bike splits.
Dr Dave a bit cringy, i’m a dentist, not a proper Dr, My daughter has just started Med school. Roll on 5 years and there’s going to be plenty of in house banter! Big D is good
St Polten is around 950m climbing (help me here @Matthew_Spooner) but I would call it pretty fast, by virtue of the great surfaces and 100% road closures. You’ve got those in Staffs right?
I had just under 900m on my Garmin. I would agree that it is pretty fast course, around 10min slower than a really fast flat course like Elsinore, as there is one big climb towards the end. Roads are superb, which certainly helps, cycling on Autobahn is amazing… not sure that they would ever close the M6 for Staffs
Conversely, it was 5wks for me prior to IM Vitoria, and my coach felt it would compromise my final build. Hence now targeting Outlaw Half on May 17th which opens on Monday morning, and gives me 8wks.