Interestingly (I was reading the 2018 race guide) transition times are not taken into account in the final race results / rankings.
For example, in 2018: “In this year’s Isoman you will be given an 8 minute window in which to get from the finish timing gate of your swim to the start timing gate of the bike. If you spend longer than 8 minutes then this will be added to your overall time.”
So in theory you could end up with a transition time, but you’d be pretty mad / unfortunate.
Bike-run had a 5 minute allowance.
I have never come across this before. Tactics…
@Chriswim I see there is a 4-120-30 in Cologne in Sept 2020. Can’t see that washing at home but I like the distances.
I’m going to keep the Isoman Half on my radar (not going long next year). It’s fairly close to me (~90 min drive); although if you have to sign-on the day before I’ll probably give it a miss, as I’m not that close and don’t want a night in Redditch!
Good point Amanda, doesn’t explicitly state going straight from £120 to £210 overnight.
£120 seems bit better but £90 for the sprint seems a little hefty. It gives the impression being quite a low key event so depends what you pay for.
Even if I’m not working (50% chance) I’m busy the Saturday in Leicester, and staying overnight, meant to be a social occasion. Think that makes it very unlikely I’ll be getting up at 430 and leaving friends to get across
Shame as I’d have probably firm committed if they’d released a date earlier, it’s been on my wishlist for few years.
It’s based on times, how close the 3 disciplines are together as, in theory, they should be the same.
You could come last and be the most equal with 4 hours per discipline.
If compiling a list of “ways to upset/ruin your mindset for a race in T1” I would think trying to get those things on after all that time in the water would be quite high up it.
Ah that’s interesting. Although true isometry would be standalone times I suppose.
For the half I would probably be 1.5h, 1.5h, 2.25h…So supports my self assessment of being a weak runner, but perhaps I over estimate my swim strength.
There is probably some gamesmanship in getting the 3 splits close together. You could certainly sandbag your way to perfect splits; which is why maybe they need to use another algorithm to weight for both ‘isoness’ and speed
Mine would be similar to that so I’d have to start sandbagging from the beginning to “fiddle” the result. If you were a stronger runner than biker, than swimmer it would be pretty easy.
Human nature never ceases to surprise me but do you think people would genuinely do that for what is a “secondary” issue compared to the overall race time?
Yeah my impression from reading about previous years was always that it’s a normal race first. They don’t advertise it as being a competition to be the most equal, it’s advertised as a normal race. And then in small print I once saw that they also list results by most equal. Don’t know if there’s any actual monetary prize to make people even consider gamesmanship.
As an off-thread, the talk of 4-120-30 got me looking. I see 2021 ITU long distance champs is destined for Townsville; Queensland Australia. Perfect for someone looking for jobs in Brisbane First Taupo and now this, my partner will think it’s all deliberate.
but I like the distances.
First Taupo and now this, my partner will think it’s all deliberate.