Steelhead 2010

Whooooohoooooo!!

Excellent news. It will be great having everyone at the same stage of training, at least lots of options for training with good friends

I am pretty excited...just bought a new wetsuit (xterra vortex 3 ...great deal for the BT price of $149)

Which Campground are you staying at?

My Race Log

KOA in St. Joseph.  We had a great experience there last year - bathrooms leave a little to be desired - but we had a beautiful back-in site right on the woods.  (They make donuts fresh every morning - they're amazing!)

http://www.koa.com/where/mi/22165/

It's about 7 miles from Jean Klock Park.

havent register yet but I am training for steelhead!

will register once I have enough confidence in my training....

I will come over the border and train with you guys again!

I had a few friends who did Steelhead last year and they liked it besides all the overbranding and the swim in L. Michigan.

Good luck guys!

I thought the swim was awesome! It was clear and just a little rolling last year.  I think it got worse as the morning went on... The water was warm though!

I found it was less friendly than the small-town races that I'd done previously - but it's also an M-Dot event and there were over 1600 people there.  I'll be ready for that this year.

Congrats everyone.
I agree with Stef the swim was really nice. I had a PB for avg 100m swim time too.... I give thanks to the current though

Stef,  the campsite said 1 tent per site... is it true?  I am planning to share a site with another triees... 

I don't know - we have a trailer.  I'm sure people put multiple tents up - they charge per adult on the site.  E-mail them - they're good about responding!

EXCELLENT........ !!!!!

I did it...I registered today

Staying at the Red Roof in just off the highway!

Edited by ff_jeff 2010-03-12 4:06 PM

WHOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

How was everyone's race??

The disaster at registration was a mess - hopefully they sort that out for next year because I'm reasonably sure people were ticked off... (I went shopping while Dan held my place in line. Thanks Dan!)  We could have done without the rain - but at least it cleared up and didn't delay anything.

I had an AMAZING day.  I wasn't sure going into it - worried about if I had enough miles in to get me through.  Apparently I did.  Yay!

Race Report Here

Swim and bike went awesome...running after that was not really my thing Still hit the high end of my estimated time which was 6hours.... actually 6:00:30 I was hoping not to have that extra 30 seconds on my plate though!
I was really hoping to run a 1:50ish half marathon but ... it took me 2:35 minutes (wtf) ????


Edited by ff_jeff 2010-08-03 2:07 PM

Cant complain, I had a ton of fun and finished the race.

My first HIM and I did it just under 5:30.

For any future benton Harbour racers- dont book at the Knights Inn off of I-94, the place is a dive.

I stayed at the holiday inn in South haven... it's only a 20min drive to John Klock park or the expo and South Haven is a really cute/beautiful town.  And free breakfast! I'd definately recommend it to anyone going again next year!