too fucking right……
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Jess Learmouth won Nice 70.3, with Daisy Davies 
fifth.
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Looks like Frankfurt was only 174km on the bike yesterday!
The fact it’s on hill, after a 90 degree bend make it even worse
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I’m not a follower of pro tri & haven’t seen or heard this incident but after seeing loads of cyclists swearing away in TV interviews while using their second/third language I’ve got some sympathy.
Unless of course he looked the official in the eye & called them a “M***** F****** C***”…that would be fairly unambiguous 
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Surely lower speed means less chance of a mechnical or lauching kit 
Wasn’t it just before you go under an arch in a town centre?
I enjoyed the cobbled climbing in Frankfurt. Fairly sure there was someone dressed as the devil chasing you about with a pitchfork when I did it.
It was also the hottest day in human history.
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I notice the German Ironmans are getting earlier; is this a weather thing? Obvs Hamburg wanted to avoid the algae issue, but they have gone very early now.
Frankfurt has pretty much been the same weekend for ages as I still have students at that point
I think Frankfurt only changed one year because of the football? I think when I did it it was early July and the start of their holidays?
The bike times are insane at Frankfurt these days.
Hogenhaug has dropped over 25 mins from his bike split in 3 years. How does that come to pass.
As above, being 5k short helps, that’s a good few minutes!
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Ah right, I was wondering if they’d changed it to a faster course…and with maybe some lenient drafting enforcement was making things faster at some events. Plus bike tech I suppose.
WTF is it with these German events; the courses are either far too long or far too short.
They have.
It’s not the same course pre-Covid
There’s still most of the same, but then they changed the top part and you don’t do that final hill in the same way. You come out at the top by the roundabout and turn left for the fast bit back into town.
There’s less towns and more straight, rolling sections.
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German efficiency
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The logistics of the split transitions over the whole weekend, and the boring (unshaded!) run put me off ever doing it twice. I don’t remember a huge amount about the bike course; it was a bit insipid. Obvs the cobbles/tramlines into the city, a couple of hills per lap and that’s about it.
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Which in my opinion, has long been a fallacy! Germans even joke about the reliability of Deutsche Bahn. Their roads are a darned sight better though.
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Probably a combination of them all and possibly a float day? Road surfaces on the whole are better than the shitty roads we have!
But yeah, 11k difference between our Hamburg event is heading around 20 minutes on a decent day.
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But no, they COULDN’T MOVE THE U-TURN 1.5km closer on each lap at Hamburg to save 6km 
The headwind was a b’stard on that dyke road too; it was on the second lap into the headwind @Matthew_Spooner caught me iirc.
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Bike was 5k long when I did it. Roadworks on the fast road into the city, you had to exit the fast road and do a twisty little diversion which was annoying.
Non wetsuit swim, old style mass start, 5k long bike, 100deg F run. And my first IM 
Welcome to Ironman TRO!
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