Fellow GU'ers

So far I have a Sprint in VA, Eagleman 70.3 in Maryland, the Annapolis Tri which is an Oly. in Maryland, and IMFL in Nov.

I'm going to e-mail them to see if they'll give me any "credit" for running Boston in the tri top/hat/socks.  I personally think that someone running right around 3 hours will get some attention in the outfit and should be worth at least 50 points or so.

Timberman 70.3 maybe?  It's up in New Hampshire, so not too far for you to go.

Good to hear about 1/2 and full marathons ....... I'll follow up with them soon to find out if we'll get our outfits in time for me to use it at Boston.

My races this year are (tentatively) Lanika Tri, Honolulu Tri, and Honu HIM.  Will there any other GU people in Hawaii this year?

I just got an e-mail noting that they expect the stuff to ship out the first week of March.  Who knows how long shipping will take, but I would imagine it would get to you before April.

So far, I've got the schedule is looking like:

ING Marathon (half only) (March)
St. Anthony's (Oly) (April)
Beast of the East (H-IM) (May)
Escape from Alcatraz (June)
IMCdA (June)
Peachtree Road Race (10k) (July)
(month of August = tbd)
Six Gaps Century (Sept)
Tugaloo (oly) )(Sept)
SC Half (H-IM) (Oct)
IMFL (Nov) 

Good news about the points for events other than triathlons in that I will prolly fill in the gaps with some 10k's or other events for speed work/kicks.

edit: Looked but could not find the previous thread on the subject - what is the point structure again?  How many points = how much of what? (I just spent a small fortune on nutrition ... 2 boxes of Gu, 1 big cannister of Accelerade + another big cannister of Endurox, Cliff Shot Blocks and so forth, so anything at this point helps )

So based upon the pasted info from the referred link below, did we ever ascertain what the non-obvious stuff was?

As it stands now, I will have reached the 300 pt limit by the end of June.  As such, I will prolly do 4 cases of Gu (3x50 = 150 pts) and 5 canisters of Gu2O (5x20 = 100) ... leaving 50 pts for whatever the stuff turns out to be below.

True, it is a lot of Gu ... but there is a lot of training to be done.

I believe that you get 4 cases of 48 gels from the $189 package. That comes out to be 192 gels. At a consumption rate that averages 2 Gu's/day (what's a day w/o Gu?), that lasts approximately 13 weeks.  If the initial shipment comes by mid-March, then based upon the rate of consumption, that is potentially enough to reach the end of June or IMCdA.

The three cases of Gu's ordered from the points would only last an additional 10 weeks ... or roughly to the end of the season or IMFL.

So basically, Team Gu (and the initial $189.00 ) will pay for my Gu habit this season.

Whew!  Just heard back from them and I'm confirmed.

100 points for a marathon!!  That means with Boston, Eagleman and IMFL I've got my 300 points in the bag.