{"id":7903,"date":"2021-03-15T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2021-03-15T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:02:50","slug":"testing-course-for-ironman-70-3-world-championships-in-mooloolaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7903","title":{"rendered":"Testing course for Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Mooloolaba"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ironman 70.3 World Championships are to be held at Mooloolaba in Queensland, Australia this September. This is the first time the championships have been staged in the Southern Hemisphere, although the are has played host to Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast,\u00a0Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival, and the ITU World Cup races for several years.<\/p>\n

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The new course incorporates a challenging ocean swim, a stunning ride through the Mooloolaba hills, and a picturesque run along its famed coastline.<\/p>\n

Local Queensland-based professional Josh Amberger says that a key point in this race will be the swim. While it will be a deep water start, athletes\u00a0from oversees especially\u00a0will need to be aware of the rolling surf conditions that are common to the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cThe surf swim is a first and anything could happen with a beach swim. The race could break up with the surf conditions, or the run on the soft sand,\u201d Amberger said. \u201cPlus, there\u2019s a hill straight out of T1 that will soften the legs further.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In terms of the bike, the previous multi-lap course has been replaced by a one-lap route that takes in the rolling hills to the west towards Palmwoods.<\/p>\n

\u201cCredit goes to the organisers for putting together a unique bike course. It should be a fair race, and while it\u2019s not as tough as last year, we have a real championship course,\u201d Amberger added.<\/p>\n

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Fellow local pro Caroline Steffen believes the hilly nature of the bike will affect the outcome: \u201cThere\u2019s one good climb of 18 percent and overall it\u2019s lumpy and technical. If it doesn\u2019t break up completely on the bike itself, it will definitely take the sting out of the legs of the pure runners,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ironman 70.3 World Championships are to be held at Mooloolaba in Queensland, Australia this September. This is the first time the championships have been staged in the Southern Hemisphere, although the are has played host to Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast,\u00a0Mooloolaba Triathlon Festival, and the ITU World Cup races for several years. Advertisement The new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}