Emmett's Most Excellent Triathlon - Olympic Course : Official Thread

I'm in. It will be my first go at an Oly. I have the boise 70.3 and the Les Bois xterra sprint before this one, so I have no idea how messed up my pacing will be. I kind of have to do it, because it is in my home town. You can't pass up quality races that you can sleep in your own bed for

I have my "secret" goals, ( certain people that I have to beat), but I haven't figured out what my goal time is for the event.

I did the sprint last year and really enjoyed it, as it was my first road tri, and my second tri ever.

I'll be there myself, attacking the sprint course as well. I did the xterra last year. It was my first triathlon, 65 lbs ago, on 2 weeks of training. Needless to say, I was unprepared

My nephews comment on the course was perfect. He said something to the effect, "The whole time on the bike it was either this course is killing me, or this course is TRYING TO KILL ME!"

I remember having the rocks knock my feet out of my SPD pedals several times before I gave in and hiked the worst of the rock garden. Old school 26" MTN bike didn't have enough clearance at times. I'll stick with the MTN bike shoes. Unless I have a mechanical failure they will gain me more than I lose on the course, even if I hike the rock garden again.

I might try to ride the course on Wed with tri-town. I haven't totally committed, but I would really like to get a pre-run this year.

Are they allowing pre-running on the groin? I thought it was off limits according to the website.

Regardless, I've ran it once (last year) I'm not going to gain any fitness running it on Wed Even if it's open, I'll take a pass

That was fun, the one thing the RD got right was the pre-race activities.

As for the kestral, it is a rocking old bike , but I was sure wishing for suspension and 29's on Saturday. I came out of the water around 8th or so (according to my wife), but finished 20th. I was passed by so many bikes in the technical stuff it was pretty disheartening. I could out-crank most of those guys, I just couldn't keep any speed through the really bad sections. I got back some of those spots on the run, but not enough...

If I do it next year I will be on a modern bike. I love the kestral, and my other old bike, but they just can't hang with 29's and suspension

Time to take a day off, then get back into training. Emmett's in two weeks

Hope you all trained up. I tapered more than I wanted to, but I feel ready to go. Time to pick up the packet (with a freaking t shirt ), eat a good dinner and get some rest. Lets see what my first oly has in store.

Good luck tomorrow