Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon : Official Thread

Great Whites will just make you swim faster.

I also raced the Half last year and just signed up for the Full this year.  I am kinda freaked out about it because it will be my first Full, but I am excited.  I loved the race last year and am looking forward to doing the Full this year.  Who has done the Full?

Karen

Kevin, sign up and we will have a group swim, bike and run. I'm just looking forward to having a few beers afterwards.

wow, dnf with 6 miles to go had to have been very hard. You will make it this year!!

Woah missed this thread!!  Buddy I know from work and I are both in for the full.  It will be his first full and my 2nd time at B2B (2009).  I feel like I have some unfinished business down there after '09. 

I know there have been some course changes from when I did this race in '09 but still pretty familiar with the lay of the land.  Feel free to ask/post any questions you may have and I'll do my best to answer them!  This is a great race---gotta say I'm already pretty excited about it!!

Would love to see you down there, Chris! Let's have a beer after we finish the race!

I have the IM bug and this is the race I'm going to try to make a run at.  I've only ever done 2 sprints and a HIM... so I'm gonna ramp up my training over the next few months and, if I feel good about it, then I will pull the trigger on signing up probably around May.  

It's both scary and exciting just thinking about it!

Anyone have any thoughts on lodging?  Where are the best places to stay?  I will have my wife and possibly 6 mo old baby with me...

thanks!

Hello all

My name is Tom.  I took a shot at my first full distance in Louisville in August 2012 and was quite shocked at how Challenging this race was.  I DNF'd although I finished the swim and bike but came into T2 1 minute and 23 seconds too late so they would not let me run.  I was devastated because I started the swim at 7:21 AM which cut 21 minutes off my total time to finish which is how the time-trial start works in Louisville.  How ever many minutes you start after 7AM gets deducted from 17 hours.  I have always been interested in B2B and thought this year I'd try it for my first IM distance. 

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Tom

With the baby being only 6 mo's old, I think the wife would rather stay down town for easy access to seeing me.  Doesnt the race end downtown? 

Tom - if your logs are currnet, best advice I have for you is to start getting some base training in.  If you are going to do a 20-week plan for B2B, then the plan would start in June I think.  I'd encourage you to be getting in about 8 hours of training a week right now if possible.

Thanks for the mention, Alltom1! I love you, too!

So, interesting that the full has more ppl signed up than the half! I know we have many months to go yet, but still interesting.

I just signed up for the full today.  Wheeee!

This will be my second IM distance after doing IMAZ in November last year.  I've heard fantastic things about this race and will be bringing the hubby along with me to be my gear sherpa. 

One thing for sure is that I plan on following my training plan to a T.  Stopping training about a month early because of weather didn't really work out so well for IMAZ... 

I guess I have to say that I'm pretty surprised that there are more ppl signed up to do the full than the half. 519 ppl have signed up to race the full, at this point vs 430 that have signed up to do the half...

I know it's early yet, and that it'll definitely change, but it's still a bit surprising to me...

Anyways, carry on...