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Ironman Wales 2011
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Pebbels I think is cycling it this week so he should be able to inform.........i think its going to be closed roads which will be brilliant..........
mind just remember when pebbles gives us his opinion........he is one of the strongest pirates on the bike and is used to hills.......
there is quite a bit of flattish roads down tenby way near the coast.....it depends on how they do it for the traffic free part...........I'm away this weekend so hoping taht when I get back we will have more info
I might go and recce the route once its made known........just an hour or two down the motorway for me
Cona - the distance between IM is a little more complex....I'd say 2 or 3 weeks apart is actually easier than 5, with 6 being even worse but 8 being fine.
Its all down to the recovery from the peak, you can push it for 2 or 3 weeks but come 5 or 6 you're on the way down. You can combat this if you're used to a heavy volume (relative to your finish time) and don't do a standard taper. But if you were doing say a 16 hour per week plan, with a 3 week taper then a 12 hour IM will be quite a shock to the system and after 3 or 4 weeks you'll have slumped a lot from your peak. If you're used to 20+ hr per week, don't taper and race 10hr then you don't get the same impact.
It's all possible and different people will cope differently, it depends on your goals. I'm tempted myself with a 3.5 week gap which is right at the start of the dip, 2.5 would have been much better.
So someone else has got the Mdot franchise as well. Or does Wales count as a separate country for Mdot.
Or have I missed something obvious?
Don't think the Mdot people care, if you come up with the money. Germany has two 2 Mdot races - IMDE and IMR. But they can't expand it endlessly, because they would run out of Kona places to offer.
no they wouldn't - they'd just reduce the ones available at each event so the totals are still the same. and they have changed the rules for pros now which leaves more a/g slots available overall - partly to accommodate the newer events and make the pros work for their places - no guaranteed slots for them all now.
The IM Wales race doesn't add further slots either, think of this new race as taking over from the old Bolton one which loses the franchise next year, IMUK has 50 slots for 2011, IMWales has 50 for 2012.
The following year, no IMUK, no overlap, looks like it could be the way forward, however, you never know with IM, they may want two for a few years and see what happens.
I think saying IMUK is run by people no-one likes is a little harsh, you have been on the RW forum for too long. It may not put on a race that you like or many pirates like and this is due to many things but it won't stop people entering.
FWIW, I thought Bolton was alright on the night so to speak, though running out of gatorade etc wasn't a clever move and swampsition was bad. But these are all history as are many of the moans.
I don't really do abroad given the choice and just wondered why so much potential excitement over IMWales when IMUK seems to generate the opposite.
Its an English thing!
Its new and its welsh will be great
Rose so you don't think wales will have any slots for 2011
..not that i was thinking of getting one
and even i have to admit Tenby is a beautiful area
Wasnt there rumours of making Lanza the European championship? - All Euro Age group winners (and various places) qualify for a European version of Kona.
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The IMUK franchise was acquired by WTC (the global owners of IM) last year so they can effectively do what they want and open up as many competing races as they think will sell.I am surprised at Wales in September though as there could be problems with the weather and certainly the potential sea swim, in light of the Gulf stream the tail end of any US hurricanes could make that interesting
someone was saying that IMwales and IMCymru have both been registered on the net..................I prefer IMCymru but we will wait and see.....
In britain I think its pot luck with weather anywhere form April to September...............any month could have torrential weather or heat waves...........last weekend was lovely
Is Cymru Welsh for UK?
and
"so you don't think wales will have any slots for 2011"
yes - because under WTC rules, events starting after Sep 1 in any year qualify for the following year for Kona, not the same year.
As to being IMUK or IMWales or IMCymru, I'd guess it'd be IMUK unless there is another one running. IMCymru, who knows where Cymru is, and likewise Wales.
and have you seen that IM70.3 Galway in Ireland got the WTC green light yesterday? that could be a good one