Pretty impressed that Laidlow finished. When I went to bed I’d have put money on him being a dnf. Lange doing it for all the old dudes.
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Wow Lange, the benefit of pacing the bike in a group and smashing the run. Kudos to Ditlev for recovering to second.
Laidlow is one of those prickly characters that I’m not sure about, wonder if he’ll admit he cooked the bike. I vaguely remember the pupil distance thing.
My mate recovered from a slow swim to do 11:08, his swim was quite a bit slower than I expected so I think the AG starts means that swim conditions can change quite a bit as it was an hour after the pro’s started. That was definitely the case both times at Nice, you could see the change in the sea.
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It’s the Normatecs what done it.
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That’s right; the 90/00s were neolithic science wise; we were lucky just to have flavoured squash back then.
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First rule of Tri Club …
Don’t smoke the bike
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Whilst I’m generally cynical, and rightly so given endurance sports recent history; most of the gains are the bike. Even the also-rans are crushing Stadler’s bike times from 20 years ago. So swim skins and bike tech probably do count for a lot. Run times outside the podium guys aren’t shifting dramatically. Lots of 3+ out there today.
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Blummenfelt blew even harder than Laidlow, ran a 3:30
Brad Culp’s recently published book on “The Norwegian Method” heading to a bargain bin near you
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To be fair, everyone has a bad Ironman day. It’s worse for the pros too as they make mistakes in the heat of head to head racing. I reckon Blu just cooked himself too early; the irony being that the rabbit also denonated. Ultimately Ditlev must have kept to his numbers by the looks of it.
I don’t blame Culp for cashing it but it is nonsense.
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The cockpits and 3D printing must be helping, a lot have the praying mantis position that Landis used almost 20 years ago, then the wider poles are just aero fairings really. They’ve spent a lot of time in the tunnel etc., not to mention personalised skinsuits.
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Recently renamed “The Eastern Block Method”
(Well some time last night a couple beers in)
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Tyres as well, or Tires for the Septics.
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Just read that Billy Monger - the British double amputee ex-racing driver - finished in under 14:30. Amazing stuff from the young fella!
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Looks like Jalabert and Vino were both DNS? Probably won’t upset many people.
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I think I saw that the swim record was broken by an Aussie age grouper ?
I was wondering about the distance away from school children which IME is good keep? One sheep and all that
Did USADA show up?
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lol, possibly 
Swim record, bike record and course record all broken.
Not by the same person, thankfully.
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Conditions were fairly benign. When was the last time there were real Kona winds. Don’t remember seeing chop in the swim or them talking about headwinds on the bike for years now. Seems calm is the new norm.
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Followed the PC/ID category on the tracker, he was 1st in cat out of the swim, dropped back on the bike and held his own on the run to finish 7th out of 13.
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