Rev3 Quassy - Half Rev : Official Thread

I'm in for IMLP and Quassy. Staying at the Crowne Plaza Southbury.

I signed up for the 'revolution'

plan to do the Oly Saturday, then the 1/2IM on Sunday...assuming all my bones are together and I can do some sort of training in the spring...

(Hi Jeff!)

 I’m in for sure.  Hoping to do the full Rev with existing IM and retired wave runner; dtoce!  We had a very good time last year doing this race in preparation for LP.  

See how my knee feels in the coming months.  Hopefully better by December.  Had another setback and have shut down completely for another few weeks.  Argghhhhh....

I signed up for this because I heard the bike is harder than LP and it's a GREAT tuneup for it.

We are staying at a campground a few miles from the start of the race.

I'm in for Quassy as prep for IMLP.  I've booked a room at the Hampton Inn in Waterbury.

While I love Rev3 events and have heard great things about this race I'm also a little bummed because it means a 3.5 hour drive when I live less than an hour from Mooseman and Mooseman is no more. Oh well it is fun to try new things and check out new places!

Wow, a lot of friendly, familiar faces here. I'm also doing the "revolution", Don't tell my cardiologist .  Staying at the Hampton Inn in Waterbury.

A friend and I are doing rev3 Quassy and IMLP. We are staying at the Hampton Inn. I will be driving to Conn. from NJ.

How many of you know what you're in for on this course? >

Last year I stayed at the Days Inn over near Danbury. I don't need much and it wasn't more than $60 a night.

I think I read that the swim was uphill, but when I did it last year it wasn't as bad as all that...all the rain from the night before doomed the Oly racers but it filled the lake up and levelled it off...

for me personally,my panic attack in the water eventually subsided and my jaw went numb from the kick the Clyde in the water gave me but it was all good-

I was so happy when I got on my bike ready for those hills (and since you're a master Beast on the bike Brigby, I'm sure those miles at 10 and 24 are just little molehills for you) followed by the rolling run and even though I had to walk multiple times due to the incline at miles 4 and 7, it's OK, after all , it's a race...ahhh, but that finish chute is so sweet!!

tuff course

Haha, I knew they were there. I hit the bike training hard last year. It was get as strong as possible over the winter with lots of volume and making sure to hit efforts in them. Then when I could ride outside, get up to some hilly areas. This required some travel since I'm in IL, but it was worth it. I would highly recommend it for people if they don't have enough hills in their immediate area. I just got a cheap place to stay the night before and rode it the next day. The drive was a few hours, which I didn't want to do both the morning of and later in the day after riding. It wasn't just the volume that I looked for, but also the presence of steep hills. I didn't use the bottom gear at Quassy, but not sure I could make some of the HHH hills without it.

There was this one on the REV 3 Wisc course. And also this one  which used the Horribly Hilly Hundreds course. My bike volume was high, so rides of those durations weren't much longer than normal long rides. The hills on these were actually steeper than Quassy, so I knew I'd be ok there. I also had a number of other local long rides (5 hrs or so) where I pushed myself, so I had a very good feel for pacing things. My power meter died within 5 min (on the road out of transition), but it wasn't really an issue since I figured to pace it like the long rides.

With the gearing available today, there shouldn't be much trouble in getting low enough gears to make it around in a reasonable cadence. What you really have to be mentally prepared for is to always be on a hill. We joke about this, but it is very true. And the mental aspect of this is big on this course. It goes better if accept it and always expect another one to be there, because there will be. And know that these are tighter New England roads. They are pretty much always shifting around. You can't just zone out. It's necessary to be really sharp in a few places, but overall, it's not that technical of a course. You just need to be prepared to be moving around all the time. There are no straight sections and no flat sections to zone out on. Even for a mile or two.

Then for the run, yes, there is a lot of elevation to it, but it's more than that. The tight, always changing applies here as well. The uphill isn't hard because of the elevation (not only that anyway), but because the grade makes substantial changes every 100-200 ft you travel. It'll bounce between 3% & 10% or so in an instance, and do that a number of times in a row. You can never get into a good rhythm on it. There is a lot of left/right on there, but at run speeds, this isn't as critical. It's the consistently changing grade that can really get you. You'll do well if you can learn how to do handle that. And doing it after biking quite a bit. Have to learn how to manage effort without relying on heavily pace, or other things like HR. Things just change too fast. Learning to feel it will be very important.

Oh . that doesn't sound too ominus.

Just signed up.  Looking forward to "shuffling" up the dirt road from hell.  I pray for cool and dry weather for June 2nd, 2013. 

Also upped for the Timberman HIM in August and will probably up for the Cuse HIM in the next few weeks.  Waiting on a commitment from a friend.  My goal this year is three HIM's, throw in a couple Oly's, maybe a sprint or two and back to IMLP in 2014. 

Starting training last week.  I am in peak winter condition right now.  Climb out of the bowl - ugh.

Anyone know if headphones are outlawed on the run?  I know the website says they are not permitted, but I have done plenty of races where it says the same and no one says anything to the people wearing them.  This is my first 70.3 and I always run long with my IPOD.  Any help would be great.

Mike

Headphones are not allowed.  I worked the finish line at Quassy a couple years ago and they took aside a couple of "competitors" who were trying to subtle wear them and they were DQ'd. 

Just like there's no crying in baseball - there's no headphones in triathlon!

Start learning to love the sound of your own heart beating running up and down those hills.

Bike: http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/99200693

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