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2009-11-16 1:24 PM

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Subject: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
Hey all. Thinking about next year. It looks like some things are converging that are going to make July-end of tri season 2010 a little tricky for me, so I was wondering what early-season events people would recommend. I am already planning White Lake (either the sprint or the half) and that tobacco rd half marathon. What else? Races close-ish to the triangle would be best.


2009-11-16 1:41 PM
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louiskie - 2009-11-16 2:24 PM Hey all. Thinking about next year. It looks like some things are converging that are going to make July-end of tri season 2010 a little tricky for me, so I was wondering what early-season events people would recommend. I am already planning White Lake (either the sprint or the half) and that tobacco rd half marathon. What else? Races close-ish to the triangle would be best.

My latest season proposal...

Tobacco road half
Boston
Kinetic Half (Spotsylvania, VA)
Kerr Lake
Triangle
Pinehurst

And a sprinkling of other stuff maybe, but that's the gist.  Heavy front half of the year.

2009-11-16 1:52 PM
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Ive narrowed down my event list: i need to get official dates still and this is all pending social schedule allowance as well as body recovery...

Inside Out Sports Oly Triathlon at Beaverdam
White Lake Half or Sprint* (either I or II)
Jordan Lake Open Water Challenge
Tri Latta Triathlon (CLT)* (maybe)
Triangle Triathlon
Washington Olympic Triathlon* (maybe)
TrySports Mayo Lake Triathlon
Nuclear Swim at Harris Lake
The Nation's Tri Oly (D.C.)
Wilmington YMCA Triathlon
Ironman 70.3 Augusta
Pinehurst Triathlon Oly
Beach2Battleship
Half or Iron

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2009-11-16 2:15 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
fgump - 2009-11-16 2:41 PM

louiskie - 2009-11-16 2:24 PM Hey all. Thinking about next year. It looks like some things are converging that are going to make July-end of tri season 2010 a little tricky for me, so I was wondering what early-season events people would recommend. I am already planning White Lake (either the sprint or the half) and that tobacco rd half marathon. What else? Races close-ish to the triangle would be best.

My latest season proposal...

Tobacco road half
Boston
Kinetic Half (Spotsylvania, VA)
Kerr Lake
Triangle
Pinehurst

And a sprinkling of other stuff maybe, but that's the gist.  Heavy front half of the year.



Kinetic half? Is that a nice event? And that Boston thing...how do you get invited (grin). I have until about end June to get everything in, so anything after June is a no-go for me. No Pinehurst (thank goodness! haha).
2009-11-16 2:18 PM
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halfpint - 2009-11-16 2:52 PM Ive narrowed down my event list: i need to get official dates still and this is all pending social schedule allowance as well as body recovery...

Inside Out Sports Oly Triathlon at Beaverdam
White Lake Half or Sprint* (either I or II)
Jordan Lake Open Water Challenge
Tri Latta Triathlon (CLT)* (maybe)
Triangle Triathlon
Washington Olympic Triathlon* (maybe)
TrySports Mayo Lake Triathlon
Nuclear Swim at Harris Lake
The Nation's Tri Oly (D.C.)
Wilmington YMCA Triathlon
Ironman 70.3 Augusta
Pinehurst Triathlon Oly
Beach2Battleship
Half or Iron


That beaverdam race might be fun! April 10. I think the half marry in Cary is March 21, so the timing on those is pretty good, with White Lake a month later. Everything else is too late for me...
2009-11-16 2:30 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
halfpint - 2009-11-16 2:52 PM Ive narrowed down my event list: i need to get official dates still and this is all pending social schedule allowance as well as body recovery...

Inside Out Sports Oly Triathlon at Beaverdam
White Lake Half or Sprint* (either I or II)
Jordan Lake Open Water Challenge
Tri Latta Triathlon (CLT)* (maybe)
Triangle Triathlon
Washington Olympic Triathlon* (maybe)
TrySports Mayo Lake Triathlon
Nuclear Swim at Harris Lake
The Nation's Tri Oly (D.C.)
Wilmington YMCA Triathlon
Ironman 70.3 Augusta
Pinehurst Triathlon Oly
Beach2Battleship
Half or Iron


That is one STRONG season, Scottie.  Wow!  That's triple my race budget unfortunately.


2009-11-16 2:55 PM
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There seems to be more races in the 1st half of the season anyway. You can really pack June. I'm not doing all this, but I'm considering a lot of it. The ones I've settled on so far are in bold. Buckhorn is tempting.

  • Umstead Trail Marathon (Sounds fun)
  • Beaver Dam Oly
  • Centennial Sprint
  • Riverwood (Great bike route)
  • White Lake (Always good)
  • Kerr Lake Oly (Same day as Gary Kirby I think)
  • Gary Kirby (Fun, but its a 4 lap bike)
  • Buckhorn Sprint (Wilson)
  • Smithfield Sprint (New)
  • Smile Train
2009-11-16 4:00 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
fgump - 2009-11-16 3:30 PM
halfpint - 2009-11-16 2:52 PM Ive narrowed down my event list: i need to get official dates still and this is all pending social schedule allowance as well as body recovery...

Inside Out Sports Oly Triathlon at Beaverdam
White Lake Half or Sprint* (either I or II)
Jordan Lake Open Water Challenge
Tri Latta Triathlon (CLT)* (maybe)
Triangle Triathlon
Washington Olympic Triathlon* (maybe)
TrySports Mayo Lake Triathlon
Nuclear Swim at Harris Lake
The Nation's Tri Oly (D.C.)
Wilmington YMCA Triathlon
Ironman 70.3 Augusta
Pinehurst Triathlon Oly
Beach2Battleship
Half or Iron


That is one STRONG season, Scottie.  Wow!  That's triple my race budget unfortunately.


Is social schedule allowance=girlfriend time?  Just wonderingInnocent
2009-11-16 5:26 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
halfpint - 2009-11-16 2:52 PM Ive narrowed down my event list: i need to get official dates still and this is all pending social schedule allowance as well as body recovery...

Inside Out Sports Oly Triathlon at Beaverdam
White Lake Half or Sprint* (either I or II)
Jordan Lake Open Water Challenge
Tri Latta Triathlon (CLT)* (maybe)
Triangle Triathlon
Washington Olympic Triathlon* (maybe)
TrySports Mayo Lake Triathlon
Nuclear Swim at Harris Lake
The Nation's Tri Oly (D.C.)
Wilmington YMCA Triathlon
Ironman 70.3 Augusta
Pinehurst Triathlon Oly
Beach2Battleship
Half or Iron



Scottie

That is a tough ending. Ask Harold about the bolded trifecta to end a season.
2009-11-16 6:57 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
qrkid - 2009-11-16 6:26 PM

halfpint - 2009-11-16 2:52 PM Ive narrowed down my event list: i need to get official dates still and this is all pending social schedule allowance as well as body recovery...

Inside Out Sports Oly Triathlon at Beaverdam
White Lake Half or Sprint* (either I or II)
Jordan Lake Open Water Challenge
Tri Latta Triathlon (CLT)* (maybe)
Triangle Triathlon
Washington Olympic Triathlon* (maybe)
TrySports Mayo Lake Triathlon
Nuclear Swim at Harris Lake
The Nation's Tri Oly (D.C.)
Wilmington YMCA Triathlon
Ironman 70.3 Augusta
Pinehurst Triathlon Oly
Beach2Battleship
Half or Iron



Scottie

That is a tough ending. Ask Harold about the bolded trifecta to end a season.


X2 what qrkid says. See this: http://www.active.com/triathlon/Articles/Determining_Your_Race_Reco...

2009-11-16 8:36 PM
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How about that new HIM in Little Washington in April. The venue is quite nice and it certainly will be flat. The swim will be in the river. Not quite a clear as White Lake but the road is alot smoother than the White Lake bike route.


2009-11-18 12:16 PM
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I am extremely new to triathlons and the Tri Roanoke Valley Sprint Triathlon http://www.triroanokevalley.com/  in Roanoke Rapids (just south of VA on I-95) is the first race I competed in. It is held in early April and in its 2nd year the race had around 100 participants. I am new to tri's, but some of the more experienced competitors praised the course and expressed how challenging it was for a sprint tri. The race is designed by Hawaii Iron Man finishers and they also held pre-race seminars last year to give some of us newbies some good pointers. I definately plan on doing it again in 2010.

2009-11-18 12:33 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
A couple of thoughts on peoples poposed schedules:

Scottie, I agree with Carol about the end, and beware the NAtions Tri is 2 weeks before Augusta. Do you want to do an Olympic 2 weeks before a 1/2IM?


Mark: the Beaver Dam Oly and the Centennial Sprint are the same weekend (I think.)

I am running:
The Tobacco Marathon 3/21
The Beaver Dam Oly OR the Centennial Sprint in April
Gary Kirby in June
Maybe BASF Smile Train sprint also in June
Triangle Tri
Augusta in September and
Pinehurst olympic.

Bolded stuff is fairly certain, I may shift other and would consider White Lake. I wont return to Mayo Lake as I hated the off road run.

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2009-11-22 3:16 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
Wish List for 2010:

Beaverdam Oly 4/2010
White Lake HIM 5/2010, Maybe?
Kure Beach Double Sprint 6/2010 - Wow, do everything twice including an ocean swim first AND last!
White Lake Oly - 9/2010
Beach to Battleship HIM - 11/2010
Full Marathon at some point!?!

2009-11-22 11:29 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
Don't know if you would consider Stokesdale (Just north of Greensboro, NC) close to the Triangle or not, but Setup Events puts on a Sprint race at Belews Lake the end of April.

It's a full 750m OWS, wetsuit legal, and 13 or 14 mile Bike and 5K run.  Chance to use your wetsuit vs. a lot of early Sprints that are inside pool swims.
2009-11-23 7:56 AM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC

I was wrong Beaver dam is 4/10/10 and IOS Centenial is 4/18/10.



2009-11-23 2:51 PM
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Subject: RE: Suggestions for early season tris in/around NC
GRKID has it dead on, if I knew then what I know now......  Too much w/i short amount of time = pain.  BUT, if it's in your heart go for it.  Pain is temporary, pride is forever!
2009-11-23 6:02 PM
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DougRob - 2009-11-23 8:56 AM

I was wrong Beaver dam is 4/10/10 and IOS Centenial is 4/18/10.

It was the same weekend last year, they must have changed it. Some hard core people to back to back days.

2009-12-03 2:24 PM
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klowman - 2009-11-23 12:29 AM Don't know if you would consider Stokesdale (Just north of Greensboro, NC) close to the Triangle or not, but Setup Events puts on a Sprint race at Belews Lake the end of April.

It's a full 750m OWS, wetsuit legal, and 13 or 14 mile Bike and 5K run.  Chance to use your wetsuit vs. a lot of early Sprints that are inside pool swims.



Do you have a link to info on this race?

thx
2009-12-04 4:23 PM
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The Belews Lake sprint is ran by Setup Events, their main web page is www.setupevents.com and then you click on the North Carolina (Green) link, NCTS.

Here is the link to the Belews Lake info: 

http://www.setupevents.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=event_detail&eventID=1396

750m OWS
14.5 mi. Bike
5K run

Held on Sat, April 17th of 2010.
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