Acworth Sprint - Who's In?

I'll be there.  Although it's not looking like I'll be setting any PR's, as I just developed a raging case of Plantar's in my left heel. I intend on playing thru the pain though!

I agree on that extra half mile, that was killer last year. It was only my 3rd sprint ever and I could barely run 3 at that point. So at mile 3.2 when that volunteer told me I had 800M more to run I'm afraid my response wasn't polite.

Run will be right this year.  I asked Jim Rainey about it on Wed.  He said that they had printed a note about it being long due to construction or something like that last year in the newsletter that went out prerace.  I told him none of us saw it.

Good luck to everyone!

I'm in. 

I did the race last year...it was my first tri.  The run nearly killed me.  I was ready to stop and strangle every person who told me, "the finish is not much farther".

Juanice

Wifey is in!! Im Sherpaing all day. lots of sunscreen.
were doing dinner at the pasta place on main st tomorrow night at 4:30!!
Look for the team sports beans kits.

FM

Hating that I didn't make the cut this year... I went to sign up a day late, and never got called in as an "alternate"...

Have fun!!!!!!

The wife and I will be at Fusco's Via Roma on Main St at 4:30pm tomorrow for early dinner. Come by and say Hi!!

FM

I will be there, volunteering and cowbellingGood luck ladies!

Edited by cornelius300 2009-08-07 7:09 PM

I'm in. I've never done it before. Is the course hilly or relatively flat?

the bike course is relatively flat. i don't remember any big hills on the run course either.

I am in and so excited!! What happens if we lost the parking pass that was sent to us?

nobody was there to take my pass last year either. but thanks for reminding me of it's existence. i had totally forgotten about it. i'll just tuck it in my bag just in case!

Just quoted you to put the spotlight on you.. Congrats on first in Age group, and another BT'er and fellow Atlanta Tri Club'er Aimster getting 4th. You guys kicked butt.

So any thought on the run distance this year??? I either ran the slowest last 1.1 mile of my life or it was more like 3.45 (which is what it came out to be on mapmyrun.com). Did anyone wear a garmin?

I think the run was pretty much right on distance this year. My run time was slow too, but I put that down the Plantar's in my left heel. It definitely slowed me down. The one I don't get was my swim was 1 minute slower than last year. I think I'm a better swimer now than last year, so how did I get slower. Could the bouys have been a little further out this year?

This was my first tri in 4 years and my first one ever in Georgia (we moved from Nor Cal). Good race but I've got to say that the way they started the swim waves was a bit bizarre to me. I'm used to just self-seeding waves regardless of age group. We went out per age group I believe "oldest" to youngest. So we all went in and ran into the water, finding some people who ran like a bat out of hell to be breastroking. Uggh. Then I ended up swimming over some people in the wave before me in order to get out of the water. Keep in mind, I'm no Dana Torres. I think a self seeding method via waves might work better. I was at least a minute slower because of the chaos. I know there's usually open water chaos but I think some of it could be eliminated. Or maybe it was just me. Who knows.

Anyway, I was decently happy out of the water but could NOT get my legs going on the bike. I think I'll be the only triathlon participant to bring a bike trainer for warm up I'm so slow to warm up and it showed. I've been road racing and totally dedicated to cycling for a year...and it did not show! However, that's not the type of riding I typically did and when we hit a "hill" I'd power up and then fall back on flats. It's like reverse world. I'm not considered a great climber in cycling (racing) circles but in the real world I guess I am decent. So where's the hilliest triathlon coming up??? Maybe I was subconsiously saving it for the run. I knew I should have worn the TT helmet!

The run was good. I forgot to stash my powergel in my bra top so I had no nutrition for a kick out there. That kind of sucked. Race error due to inexperience. The run distance seemed right on to me. I ended up 20/111 in my age group so I'm very happy with that given my foray back into running just started about a month ago and so I'll just toot my horn a bit. And it was faster than any of my other previous tris so I guess exclusive cycling training taught me how to suffer and suck it up more. I don't know. But I'm not doing anything longer than a sprint anytime soon!

I'll feel a lot better about the swim if that was the case. I'm going with it.

I thought the swim was longer too!  I thought I would *never* get to that first turn buoy.

I almost flipped out during the first 50 yds, but managed to pull it together and get through the swim.

It was a good race! 

OK, I feel better about the swim now that's it's not just me. Overall, I love the Acworth race. I think they do a fabulous race and the course is great.

I'm all for wave starts, but who decided that oldest to youngest order? I was in the second wave and for the first 2-3 miles on the bike I felt like I was passing every pink cap'er out there! I don't like to ride on the left, but there were so many of them to pass you couldn't pull back in line after making the pass before you hit another slow biker.

For BBoston - try a race at Lake Lanier. The bike course up there is hilly.

Edited by cindi 2009-08-10 2:53 PM

Thanks Cindi. I may do the Tri2Remember at Lanier since I got shut out of the Peachtree City race on 8/22. The old to young start reminded me of a cycling race I did when they asked the Cat 4 women to line up before the pros??? One pro said "why, so we can run over them?" I still don't like her for that smart comment even though it's true. Although the oldest = slowest isn't going to necessarily be true, I'd put 30-40 ahead of 60s!

Edited by bboston88 2009-08-10 3:28 PM