PBR Pre-Ride tomorrow Sept 27

I'm new to this forum - Triathlons as well - but I'll be there tomorrow.

Look for the old guy on a black Marin bike. See ya there!

Todd 

Awesome, I will see you guys there. Welcome to BT and to triathlons Wheezer. Like Milton said, this is fun stuff! I just started doing triathlons in July and I am so hooked now. My first tri was going to be this PBR offroad since I didn't have a road bike. But as soon as I had the idea of doing triathlons, I went and bought a roadbike. LOL And now PBR will be my 5th tri since July.

I will have a yellow FCA Enurcance jersey and on a black Yeti 575.

steve0480 - 2008-09-29 7:18 AM How was the course? I didn't make it on Saturday, and tried to find my way around there on Sunday (with not much luck). I left the map at the office, so it was mostly just cruising some of the trails. My question is eere are you supposed to cross on Cury and does the course have a lot of the loose sandy uphills? I'm hopeing to be out their next Saturday.

The course was good. It was actually pretty challenging. There is one long uphill section that has a lot of loose sand. It kicked my butt everytime. I went back this morning and rode 2 loops. I can tell you right now, 3 loops for the race is going to be tough. As for crossing Curry, you go under the road through the tunnel. They are going to make everyone dismount and run through the tunnel since there will be traffic coming both ways. That is the only safe way around it. I am planning on going back out there Wendesday and Friday morning of this week also.

Well, now I don't feel so bad. It kicked my butt too!

I guess I picked a good one for my first Tri... 

Sounds like a lot of photo op's...

I'm going to put my photographer at the first choke point : )

How is it going to be easy after the first loop? I did 2 complete loops today and it took 48 minutes. I talked to Mike at Redrock today and he is expecting the fastest guys to take an hour to do 3 laps. That is going to be tough for a sprint distance tri. Especially since most sprint triathlons only take an hour to do the entire thing.  I was really hoping to place well at this race. Now, I am thinking that will be a lot of work. LOL

Don't worry - I'll be right there with ya!

I'm going to save some extra water in my bottle for the slip-n-slide ; ) 

I talked with Mike from Redrock again today and he is working on modifying the course to make it a little faster. He hopes to have the new map up on the site tomorrow. So everyone might want to think about doing the pre-ride again this Saturday if they want to ride the changes.

And it looks like a corner of the run has changed too.  At least based on the routings I did awhile back.

Swim looks the same

So I went out to Sweetwater down here last night, and Erik (hubby) said I was looking much better and going faster...which is still a snails pace for him.  But I did manage to make it through about 4 miles in 36 mins.  Sooooo I'm thinking, climbing hills aside (because I'll be walking), I can probably suffer through this in about an hour and a half now.  Excellent!  30 extra minutes to torture myself on the run.

Hopefully crawling through the 15 miles at TOWM this weekend will help some more.

There is one really technical section cut off that should cut off about 3 minutes. And then there is another section that has been shortened on the other side of Curry that will only cut off about 30 seconds of single track. Both of the changes cut out are single track and the changes will be better for passing in the race, but maybe a little less exciting.

Excellent, I'm ok with less exciting right now.  I just don't want to be hike-a-biking on single track.  Tends to people off.

I'm seriously considering one of those rear lights that attaches to your brake so I give advance warning to people behind me that I make sudden stops.