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Last year I had a really bad race at Ironman Lanzarote so after the race I decided to go back and try to get it right. To race here, with my physic, is as logical as how bumblebees can fly. I’m just to heavy, don’t climb well on the bike and typically the guys doing well here are half my length and weight – but I can’t help it, l love the race and keep coming back to be brutally murdered.
Ironman Lanzarote 2018. By Magnus Jonsson May 30. (4 slots in the age group 50-54) – I didn’t collect it as I already have a slot from Ironman Los Cabos.
My goal for the race was to do a <55min swim, 5:45 bike, and a 3:30 run. Most important was the run. I have not been able to run well in an Ironman since I started racing again 2015. My goal was to be able to do a 3:30 after one of the hardest bike courses of all Ironman races (hard gusty winds and >2,500m climbing over +180km).
- Ironman Lanzarote owes much to its reputation as one of the toughest IM events to its bike course. Some call it undulating, others hilly, but one thing is for sure – it isn’t flat! The last two big climbs Mirador de Haria and Mirador del Rio may appear to be the most difficult part of Ironman Lanzarote’s bike course, but for many the long.
- The legendary Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote celebrates its 28th edition on the 25th May 2019. The Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote is an official qualifying event for the IRONMAN World Championship in Hawaii. 40 slots to the 2019 IRONMAN World Championship will be allocated to age groups according to the number of participants in each group, guaranteeing at least one slot in each group.
- Ironman Lanzarote is ‘old-school’. In a mad frantic mass, sprint starts nearly two thousand insanely fit or ruinously confident individuals dash down the beach and into the clear blue Atlantic ocean. On Saturday the professionals were given only a twenty-meter head start for the two-lap, Aussie-exit swim.
Swim was a complete mess as it is with 1800 running into the water at the same time – 3,850m of fighting off people who tried to get a free ride on the Swedish dolphin. Swam much slower than planned and even slower than the easy practice swims I did on the course the week lead by up to the race. 57min.
On to the bike – no bang bang in the old legs at all, cold, miserable and a feeling that the legs would explode at any moment even at low pace/watts/hr. After 100km, they started to feel better and I abandoned my thoughts of DNF and thought – “let’s roll through this shit ride and practice marathon running today”.
Finished the bike in about 6hrs.
Got out on the run and did exactly as planned and apparently passed a lot of people in my age group. I didn’t know my position at all until after the race as I was just focusing on the plan and not other people’s plans and goals.
Run: 3:32 which I am really happy with!
Overall time 10:39:16 which is a ok time considering the conditions we race in on Lanzarote. only two people went under 9 hours, you could compare that with Ironman Texas a race without marshalls on the bike and 11 people came in under 8 hours. That is just one of the reason I love this race – it’s brutally honest, you simply can’t cheat and draft to get a better PB which nowadays seams to be the main purpose of for many athletes.
I realize that I probably will not be able to beat my best time here from 1997 of 10:08:16, but at least I improved my time from last year.
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Overall I was 111th (out of 1,594 finishers) and second in my age group 50-54 (out of 221 finishers).