Bone Island Tri - Full Iron Course : Official Thread

On the fence for this one. Time of year sucks for my work, training (live in Michigan), home life (wife is teacher and I have two young boys w/school) but the course, the area look amazing!!

Travel getting there is a bit of a pain from what I can tell, but I am strongly pushing for this one.

Tell me more, tell me more

Having signed up yet but I mostly likely will. I had a great time at B2B last year and I'm sure this will be equally fun if not better reagardless of first year. (weather actually kinds sucked at B2B last year)

I've been looking for awhile for a thread to pop up...

http://www.windfinder.com/windstats/windstatistic_key_west.htm#

Statistically, looks like half head wind half tail on the course for Jan.. Average speeds don't look horrible.

Of course, if there's a bike ride going on, it'll be a +20mph wind day.

Good info, thanks. Finally found there facebook page. Curious how many entrants they are letting in to this race?

Question for anyone that has been to the Keys in January/around Jan before: I know it's going to be humid because it's the Keys, but how bad is the humidity going to make a high of 74* feel?  I'm a hot weather/humid weather wuss, but I love the idea of doing a full in January.

Edited to add that a few websites claim a high of 74* will feel like 78*, but if anyone has any personal experience, that would be preferable.

This has to be just a rumor......it's bad enough trying to reach out and grab a bottle of water.  I couldn't imagine the mayhem of grabbing a wrist band from 5 different people.

Nope saw it on their facebook page, seems like maybe this idea will be thought about and hopefully changed. What do you do with them, stop and take the time to put them on your wrist?

I'm in!  Registered last night.

In response to the daylight hours, I live in Georgia and in January sunrise is around 7:15 - 7:30 and sunset is 5:45 - 6:00.  Being further south I would guess those times would vary 10 - 15 minutes in Key West.

Sunrise will be at 7:13 and sunset will be 5:58 on race day, so sub-11 should have you finishing while its still light out.

As to the rental car, I never get one.  Cabs are pretty easy to find, old town is mostly walkable and we usually rent bicycles to make things a bit easier... there really is no need for a rental car unless you plan to leave the rock.

Does anyone know how many spots have been taken for the full yet?  I wish set up would post the registration numbers and spots left like they do for all their other races.  Just curious as to the current status of the race especially seeing that B2B has over 240 spots left (for the full).

If you look on the website and click Participant Info -> Participants -> Full you will see the list of current participants.  Right now it is at 94 for the full.

Okay, thanks for the info.