This is a special filming of the picturesque Intermountain Healthcare IRONMAN 2021 World Championships being held in St George Utah. This is a hilly course, that has been filmed from a car and follows the real race course wherever possible, however, there are a few places along the way that will be different on race day, as some sections are ridden on the opposite sides of the road. These will be called out using Bernie's banter in order for the athlete to understand where it differs.
There are two big areas of counter-flow sections to call out where the race day will differ to this filming:
1. Right after exiting the reservoir, the course turns right to enter Southern Parkway and follows a 15.5mile clockwise out-and-back that is all against traffic. We would instead drive the out-and-back with traffic, following a CCW path.
2. At mile 25.3, again the course does a U-Turn from the on-ramp of W State St. to go west on the highway against traffic. Similarly, we would instead drive the correct side skipping the on-ramp turn around.
There are a number of other areas that alter in a similar manner, but these are the main ones.