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Looks like another race for the life list.
In scotland.
This. Norseman. Roth.
Right paul hough?
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Looks like another race for the life list.
In scotland.
This. Norseman. Roth.
Right paul hough?
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Robin ... tell me when you sign up for Norseman ... I've always wanted to go out on a flaming Viking longboat (or the IM equivilent).
Yes. Maybe one of these years get an EN crew to go to Norseman.
Just found it myself. Celtman. Just google it.
In the northwest Highlands. Pretty area near the Torridon mountains. Have been there a few times over the years.
Distance is full Ironman plus I believe about 10 miles on the bike.
The run goes over two Munro mountains (peaks over 3000 feet). So should be a fun scramble.
Off course the weather can be scetchy at times. And hopefully the race is too early for the midges (nasty mini-mosquitoes).
Looks like the racers this year limited to about 250.
Should be a wild event.
I'm most likely going to do Leadman next year. Pretty sure I can't do back-to-back branded IM race years, and this one in Bend is in my backyard. Big bonus is longer swim and bike, shorter run!
Yes will be sticking with ironman brand for a bit. Starting in arizona this year, will be looking at flatish courses which suite biggish me. Ironman kalmar sweden looks good.
Ironman brand::::::::;
Flattish courses europe. Kalmar. Frankfurt (relatively). Others?
Elsewhere. Arizona. Florida. Cozumel. New zealand. Others?
Isn't austria on of the worst for elvation change?
Hard to get good stats for some races for the bike course.
1. France 11193
2. Lanzarote 10282
3. Lake Placid 7911
4. Austria 7829
5. Australia 7659
6. Louisville 7578
7. Switzerland 7505
8. Wisconsin 7353
9. Canada 6719
10. Coeur D’Alene 5851
11. Brazil 5419
12. Germany 5281
13. S. Africa 5182
14. Hawaii 4554
15. Arizona 3824
16. W. Australia 2538
17. Florida 2007
Yes I see this list quoted a lot. But I believe it is pretty inaccurate.
update. Not sure how they arrived at these numbers above but please comment if you have some info you want to share! Thanks to Sam from iamtri for sharing his own data below.
The courses I did and measured with both Suunto and SRM device:
IM Hawaii: 3600 ft
IM Germany: 3280 ft
IM Austria: 5580 ft
IM Lanzarote: 7800 ft
I've done three courses multiple times measured with various devices: three different barometers. There seems to be consistency for a given barometer, but different barometers will give different results.
iBike barometer:
CDA: 5633, 5882
AZ: 2144
iBike Aero barometer:
CDA: 4889, 4799,
AZ: 1111,
Kona: 3752 (I thought I had another file from iBike in 06, but that is on another computer apparently)
Joule barometer:
CDA: 6450
AZ: 2482
I guess it may depend on several factors, one of which is the algorithm for the minimum rise which qualifies as a climb. Is it 1 meter? 3 meters? 20 centimeters? That may account for some of the differnces we see in the various reports of elevation gain. Also, there are at least three potential sources of data: barometer, GPS (which has a built in fudge factor to be dealt with), and topo map. And then there's the program doing the calculating. For example, today I did a 50 mile ride in my hilly neighborhood. WKO reported a gain of 1784, and Power Agent says 3449. All I can say is the ride I did today felt more like the CDA than AZ, which would be 3250 vs 1240 on the Joule. I could go back and compare the files I used above (they are from the iBike or PowerAgent software) as reported in WKO, but I won't.
Yeesh; TMI is what I say.
thanks for the info.
I wish Ironman would give us elevations gains, measured the same way, for all the courses.