Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 13)

If the wind holds off, I think you'll have a great ride.  Good luck!!

Just curious if anyone attended the "Athlete kick off dinner" in prior years and if it was good?

Also appears it will be "in conjunction" with the last athlete meeting (5pm). So you could eat dinner and listen to the briefing at the same time if I understand correctly?

Hope everyone is enjoying the taper. 

PPD Beach2Battleship Athlete Kick-Off Dinner – Friday October 19, 2012 4-6 PM
The PPD Beach2Battleship Athlete Kick-off Dinner will be held at the Wilmington Convention Center –
515 Nutt Street – Wilmington, NC 28401. Participants will attend for a $1 fee and guests are welcome to
attend for $15/ pp in advance and $25 / pp at Packet Pick Up. No walk-ins will be taken to ensure ample
food for registered participants and guests. This dinner will be held in conjunction with the final athlete
meeting to be held at 5PM.

We're down to less than 2 weeks.

Has anyone else started checking weather.com obsessively?

Yep.  Started checking the 10 day forecast a few days ago. 

Farmer's Almanac:  16th-19th. Drying out after a week of damp weather.
20th-23rd. Scattered showers, then clearing and unseasonable cold, with an early frost for some localities.

PPD Beach2Battleship Athlete Kick-Off Dinner – Friday October 19, 2012 4-6 PM
The PPD Beach2Battleship Athlete Kick-off Dinner will be held at the Wilmington Convention Center –
515 Nutt Street – Wilmington, NC 28401. Participants will attend for a $1 fee and guests are welcome to
attend for $15/ pp in advance and $25 / pp at Packet Pick Up. No walk-ins will be taken to ensure ample
food for registered participants and guests. This dinner will be held in conjunction with the final athlete
meeting to be held at 5PM.

I thought the dinner was well worth it last year, though it was on Thursday, not Friday.  The food was actually pretty good and you can't beat the price!  Not sure I would have gone if it was the day before the race though...

Best of luck!

Does anyone know what time the busses are leaving from the Hilton for T1?

The email sent out Friday states 5:00am.  Meanwhile, there are two other times listed in the athlete guide in two different places, 5:15 and 5:30. 

And FWIW, I am not looking at that Farmer's Almanac report above lol!  Frost!!!!

Dunno about the busses but weather.com has it being pretty warm in the 10-day (takes us to Thursday)- a high of 79.

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This would not be ideal for me...Nice for the bike. Not great for the run for us halfers...but good for the full people if you straggle into the night.

Does anyone know if there is a carpet/sidewalk/???? for the distance between where you exit the swim and T1?

Or, does anyone know the surface we will be crossing after the swim? concrete? gravel? grass?

Unless things have changed, it is a short run on a dock-like thing, then about 100-200 yards on a mix of sidewalk/concrete and road. T1 is all grass/dirt. You DO feel like a rockstar on that bit though because there are tons of people lining the street cheering. Very fun (at least I thought so).

This will be my first full distance race.  Very much ready to get up there and just get started.  Looking forward to it for sure! Starting to get a little nervous but sooooo ready to get it going! 

As far as weather, weatherchannel.com is showing a high of 70 for the race with a low of 54 Friday night.  Sounds like perfect racing weather to me!  Wish it said no winds versus the 8mph they are calling for but still, sounds good to me!  

Shawn

I'm in the half, but I'll ask this question here since my time on the course will be closer to the time on course of a full participant. 

I was thinking of renting one of those myathlete tracker devices for my family, who will all be staying at Carolina Beach for a week. They want to be at the finish, but not stand around all day either. I can safely give them a 2 hour window. I'd prefer more specific updates. 

Is the tracking system that B2B uses fast and reliable? Or should I pony up the cash for the rental unit? 

no carpet, just cold cement and asphalt.  After the swim and its cold out it will hurt even more. Stage a pair of extra shoes at the swim exit. You'll thank yourself later for it.