Subject: RE: Beach 2 Battleship is now IM North CarolinaOriginally posted by seitz1124
I just transferred from IMChoo to IMNC! Really excited!
What can everyone tell me about this race?
I keep coming back to B2B/IMNC because it's a great experience; receptive host town/unique point to point setup/usually a fast and (mostly )scenic course. I would strongly counsel going through the BT race report archives - many people have shared their observations over the years. The race has seen a few tweaks over the last eight years but the essence of the event has always been the same.
One thing that will be different for 2016 (unless the RD changes the start time ) is that the swim for the full is not going to be fast. At a 7:30am start time, we'll be going against the tide for a few minutes at the beginning and getting some push on the back half. It's tough to forecast exactly what the net of the push/pull is going to be but there's no way you're going to see anyone coming out of the water in 35minutes (that happened a couple of years ago ) with mediocre swimmers like me going 45minutes. Best guess is that swim times will look much more normalized for 2.4miles than we saw most years at B2B. No problem - just train like you would for any other Ironman and it'll be fine
Put in very few words: this year will not be a downhill swim. OTOH, our ironman cred will be secure after IMNC 2016.
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