The Disaster at Morro Bay Ironman 70.3

dang we got a heater of a video on our hands today ladies and gentlemen Iron Man Moro Bay 70.3 what [Music] happened I've never had a dick deeper in my life [Music] [Music] given the fact that it's now the most popular video I've ever posted on Instagram I felt a need to talk about what happened during Moro Bay 70.3 because I'm just I'm I'm too invested at this point my sister did it her boyfriend did it my friend won it my other friend got second and third place and then there was over 300 people that just didn't finish the race either got pulled from the swim couldn't make the swim there's even people that swam faster than those that got to continue but they still got pulled from the race so there's definitely a lot to unpack here and I felt obligated to talk about it because clearly no one's really talking about it it doesn't look like Iron Man's posted anything on their page and a lot of people seem to be upset some people seem to think that well that's why you're supposed to train so there's definitely some mixed signals but anytime I think you're spending an hour and a half in the water during a half Iron Man swim something's up 70.3 Iron Man man in moral Bay which I did last year in which I met first let me say so many of you guys came up and said oh I watched your video and then it made me want to sign up for this race now I feel uh super lucky to be um making an impact to where people are like oh I feel inspired to sign up for this race and then I also feel really bad that people sign up for this race and this happens because it's kind of gnarly I'm just going to tell it the best I can at the end of the day I didn't swim I'm going to tell it from My Lens right and if you were at this race then you can comment below what you thought but I've already read and dug through a lot of the comments on the Instagram post that I posted of the actual footage of that day there's a lot of people that weren't even there that are commenting they're saying and other people are like I was so I don't know whatever that made no sense let me just address the fact that I was going to do the race right I kind of like wavered back and forth I wasn't going to do the race and then I was going to do the race because I had fear of missing out and I thought to myself that's no reason to race I went on this ShakeOut ride and I could feel my knee pain and I'm like you know what for what dude could I have done it yes but at what cost just blowing my knee apart everything you need to know about moral bab that's actually such a good idea you make the audio file available for one day everybody who collects all 50 Jingles gets entered into win that's not a bad idea everything you need to know about Mor OB Bay everything you need to know about that's going to get stuck in everyone's head dude they're going to be racing like everything you need to know about moral B and then they're like they're like wait they're like the bike course the bike course and then you're like wait everything you need to know about right there's four eight stations and it's an out and back saving the day here so Al could erase 415 folks don't forget it mhm where's your helmet right here we got lots of the water bottle huh no the try bike settled in I'm doing okay on your left Mad Max I don't do RAC so check in is complete Olivia's on one Shake It Out Shake It Batman shake it for AJ come on Batman great representation that's the rock the swim is in the bay south of the rock I know I said I was racing and now I'm biggest pet peeve about myself if I to choose one cuz I'm not perfect but I can impulsively say yes and no to things and I'm like oh I'm going to do it and then I just went on a little shake out spin out spin it out in my freaking knee dude and that's biking I just don't know if like hammering out a whole half Iron Man especially the half marathon part is just going to be stupid okay you guys have fun love you dude 100% I'm such a big fan bro dude like I'm sorry to stalk you dude I this segment is called oh look at the waves this is called how you actually prepare for an Iron Man look at this laid out bike Canyon Speed Max disc wheel tell people why the disc wheel is important the disc wheel I mean it's my second Race using it but I think it's pretty good for especially for Flash courses just it's more Arrow my God I can't even show you guys this a top secret this is classified inform come on bro look at this ready for the reveal look at that bro are you kidding me bro Sebastian owns this company and he's like I want to make you a a a custom kit Sleek white with the offwhite right here look at that oh look at the material bro that's sick Bro the Hawk boom and the floral look at that dude let's go dude so who's going to lift tape Sebastian or Luke that is the question leave your guess this in the leave your yeah leave comment below who lifts tape today woke up on the day just like any other day right just like any other normal Iron Man you wake up early you get out there everyone's little chilly all right a here they changed the parking bro so you can no longer Park in the dirt lot anyways we're walking to see the start it's early as my knees killing me here we go that's the tip if you're going to do this race they started at 600 meaning get here at 3:00 a.m. if you want parking there's a lot of people this is their first one too right so like what do I expect and everyone if I had to say there's like one thing that everyone's nervous about it's always the swim like I just want to make the swim I just want to make the swim now unless you swim in high school or college or played water polo you wouldn't really be nervous but the swim makes a lot of people nervous number two it's cold and actually number three this is like not in Ocean swim technically cuz you're in the bay Moro Bay uh but still open water some people don't practice Open Water they swim in a pool and then they get there to race day and they're like all right let's go the first group starts okay boom everything's going well people are off music's jamming I see my sister she's hyped she's hyped she's like let's [Music] go is wake me up it's all over got to get mine yeah Liv go the other way go the other way there we go I can take whatever that's what I'm talking about Liv first thing to address here the race started an hour earlier I felt that was kind of weird I didn't really think anything of it I'm like huh well I know there's a lot of uh permitting that Iron Man needs to get to close off certain roads for the bike course and for the Run course I'm like oh maybe that's it you don't think anything of it then once all this happened I realized oh that's why because what happens is based on a lot of local knowledge and talking to people that are from Moro Bay there's a guy who explained that he's like I've been surfing there my whole life I've been paddle boarding through that bay my whole life and I'll read tide charts he said I don't even bother paddle boarding in the bay not swimming paddle boarding in the bay if the tides are doing a certain thing I.E what happened during the Iron Man because he's like they're so strong the current becomes so strong you're not even moving anywhere now a lot of your watching this that weren't there like oh whatever dude that's why you train but what I am saying is even if you were trained this one was still an absolute grind and at what point does it just become Reckless for Iron Man to run the swim now did they fully know that that it was going to be that gnarly probably not probably not but there's actually video of a kayak when the current really kicked on is paddling and people are grabbing onto the kayak the thing isn't moving anywhere backward it's moving backward proof that I'm not exaggerating last year my sister did this race with me last year she swam 38 minutes 38 minutes good time uh this year just to put it into perspective this year she trained more gets out of the water hour and 14 minutes if you're going to sit there and say to me oh was wasn't that gnarlier oh whatever you have to train why don't you go do that swim when the tides why don't you make a trip to Morrow Bay when the tides are super gnarly and tell me how you feel she got out of the water she was so freaked out literally halfway in 14 minutes was halfway in 14 minutes what do you mean half halfway I got to turn around my office from in 14 minutes oh my God it was in a treadmill literally a treadmill I was like dude total crucial dude that's stra I've never had to dig deeper in my life dude you de really dude I'm not even kidding the I I was in one spot for literally it's okay like 15 minutes D I think I'm over 110 it's all right just chill out you know you got it so freaked out she was like what the hell was that I felt like I was on a treadmill not moving anywhere and then when I really realized this was like a big deal I'm like holy but I digress I'm going too far forward because first group comes out of the water I realized something was up when my sister hadn't come out of the water and it had been it had been at this point about like 40 minutes then 45 minutes and then once it hit 55 I was like okay something's not right damn so last year my sister swam to put it in perspective 1 sorry 38 minutes I think I think she just came out of the water in an hour and 15ish so the current is super strong she said she got halfway 14 minutes and then on the way back it basically took her an hour all right this is pretty gnarly so essentially what happened is they started the swim cuz the current was you know decent enough and it shifted halfway through the swim so there's about dude I don't know this is like Mayhem chaos more than half the people if I had to guess more than half uh uh not more than half so like 30 yeah I'm going to stay here age but like look at this dude a person no I don't think so something's not right because everyone then that was coming out between the front pack and before my sister had come out it's like oh my god dude what was with the what was with the swim what was with the swim and are they okay did you see yeah I saw them she like moved she like moved her head I would say probably 40% of people are either pulled out of the water dropping out or just not even able to start the bike never seen somebody D dude I just remember seeing so much chaos ensue all of the sudden where it was like okay we've got a problem on our hands why why why is this a problem you have to understand Moro Bay I thought it was 56° someone else said their watch Red 53° whatever the case anything in the 50s is cold trust me I surf I just surfed today it was 62 and I had a full suit on straight up just picking people up look at this I've never seen this before they're just like all aboard people are probably shivering like what the hell dude oh his face is white where's Lafayette there's Lafayette Louisiana gnarly I will say the energy of this place definitely shifted from being go go go to what the oh dude [Music] if that puts it into perspective uh yeah 56° 53 degrees whatever it is 50s is cold bro and it's one thing to spend 30 minutes in the cold I know what it's like to get out of the water from Morrow Bay because I did it or Oceanside when it's in the low 50s and you get out and you're like what just happened bro I'm confused and and that's only 28 to 32 minutes so to spend an hour plus in the water I don't care who you are that says oh that's why you train then why don't you go spend an hour hour and a half in the water with your face in the water and tell me how you feel that is so gnarly if you think oh the currents weren't that strong look at some of the footage there's footage of a kayak trying to paddle just a kayak paddling and he's not moving anywhere he's just moving backward not even from the people just straight up from the current there's so much like undercurrent like you don't really see it on the surface but there's so much undercurrent that's just sucking and sucking and people are just like not moving anywhere they're just moving backward and then you have to think okay it's cold people are getting fatigued they've been swimming for 30 40 50 minutes plus they're thinking why am I not ging any gaining any momentum then they're looking up then they're getting pulled back more then they swim swim swim looking up getting pulled back more not making progress like dude it's just absolute chaos so all in all what happened was it just got worse and worse and worse and worse people were dnfing they were coming out of the water what what what happened first was people were coming out of the water and then they just were like I'm over that I'm done I'm not I'm not not continuing probably because they were just absolutely like frozen out of their mind what do you think h i mean it's yeah [Music] up AJ tells me the lady who's doing the Iron Man when it's yeah announcing Before the Race started it goes let me hear it for all you first time iron manners this might be your first but it definitely won't be your last and I like everyone who's done this race is probably thinking no this I'm never doing this again just remember this is kind of odd this is this isn't normal for Iron Man's what do you want I just know that over I think it was like 307 or 325 athletes dnf that day and I think that was a combination of getting pulled and then just not being able to continue or not wanting to continue made it kind of weird on the course CU then you think about it like the average athlete that's competing in an Iron Man like how many people did they bring along to spectate right family friends significant other um so then when we get to the Run course I was like God why is it so empty like where is everyone and then I realized oh when you have 300 plus people that didn't finish let's say they bring an average of four to five people to come spectate with them five times three 15 that's like 1500 to 2,000 Spectators that should have been there that weren't because they're athlete dnf they probably just went back to the Airbnb or or if they were local they probably just drove home let's go baby let's go gnarly anyone who who completed it props to you anyone who swam and had the dnf I would say bummer but under understand that like I've never seen that before in all the Iron Man I've ever done I've never seen that now I've been a part of swims that are like tough and I've been a part of swims and Iron Man's where they change it they change the course given temperatures or pollution or whatever they say whatever thing they have I guess you never really know right they're like oh we're changing it because of this but it's like are you or is it something else and to be honest anyone who's upset it's like you have to look at it from this angle if they had canceled the thing all together or just taken the swim out all together then people would probably still be upset you can't please everyone I guess because then people be like well why don't you just run it or run it for the people that want to do it I I don't know but um I will say there's no way they predicted that it was going to be that gnarly like that that current that tide was so gnarly again an hour and a half an hour and 40 an hour and 50 minutes it took people to do it and then just the amount of people that just couldn't even finish because they were just exhausted probably going into sheer Panic of like dude this water's freezing I'm not moving anywhere I've been in here for an hour plus like this is gnarly and I knew it was gnarly when my buddy Sebastian was coming back from the bike and people were still getting out of the water it was a good day because my buddy Sebastian won so that was cool but I just felt inclined to speak on that there was nothing out there on it um Iron Man wasn't speaking about it a lot of people on the Instagram that I posted seemed upset so I was like you know what let me tell the story as best as I can to my understanding no one died thank God I thought people thought that there was a body bag in one of the clips which it wasn't um it was actually this guy he responded he's like this is my wife and she never recovered she went to the hospital like straight up hyp hypothermia I think a lot of people um froze their ass off this day and uh damn I was scared for my sister too I was like no but she's a she's a hammer she'll finish she'll make it out and then she'll be like dude what the heck I know a lot of people too like they finished the swim and they thought they were dqd a lot of people did get they're like you can't keep going but then it's like dude let them let the people that want to keep going keep going as long as long as they make the bike cut off by 12:30 which that's what it is then just let them let them go so thought she was DQ turns out she wasn't so she ended up finishing she was bummed because she's like oh I didn't beat my last time but it's like dude an hour and 14 minutes swim that's that's Beast hammers out there anyways that's that that's Moro Bay 70.3 for anyone that I I met what's up sick meeting you and um good luck on the next one