Raleigh half? (Page 14)

I try and keep tabs on as many of these forums as I can. Ill chime in with a few comments about the bus/parking situation and wetsuits. 

First, the remote lots are located at White Oak Rec Area and Seaforth Rec Area. These lots are 6 and 4.5 miles away from the swim start. We have 500 parking spots at those two lots. I would encourage anyone that is not a local living to the west of Jordan Lake to park downtown and ride the shuttles to the start. Pea Ridge Rd (road that the park is on) will be closed 1.8 miles from transition at the closest intersection and no athletes will be driving into the park race morning. Police will be staffing this intersection. In order to make this work, we need the busses to have a clear shot race morning and cannot have other cars trying to figure out where to go on that road. We will bus spectators back to the remote lots and downtown after the swim portion, or as soon as we get enough space to safely get the busses out. There is only one road in/out so they will be using the same road the cyclist will to leave. The "Getting Around Guide" on the website has this information along with road closure info in it. 

Wetsuits... Cooler than normal temps have everyone anxiously waiting to see what the temp will be race morning. WE will take the official reading race morning around 5:00am. We will not use the Army Corps temp. That is a great resource leading up to the race to get an idea where the water is at. Race week we will take our own temp readings and post them on the Facebook page and announce them at the pre-race meetings. Due to the shallow body of water at Jordan Lake, the water temp can change rather quickly. We should have a much better idea where we are at race week and will let people know. 

Just a heads up, if the temp is between 76.2 and 83.8 and you choose to wear a wetsuit, you will start in a wave we will add as the last wave (start time of 8:22am). 

Looking forward to a great inaugural event in Raleigh. 

Brian Myrick

I try and keep tabs on as many of these forums as I can. Ill chime in with a few comments about the bus/parking situation and wetsuits. 

First, the remote lots are located at White Oak Rec Area and Seaforth Rec Area. These lots are 6 and 4.5 miles away from the swim start. We have 500 parking spots at those two lots. I would encourage anyone that is not a local living to the west of Jordan Lake to park downtown and ride the shuttles to the start. Pea Ridge Rd (road that the park is on) will be closed 1.8 miles from transition at the closest intersection and no athletes will be driving into the park race morning. Police will be staffing this intersection. In order to make this work, we need the busses to have a clear shot race morning and cannot have other cars trying to figure out where to go on that road. We will bus spectators back to the remote lots and downtown after the swim portion, or as soon as we get enough space to safely get the busses out. There is only one road in/out so they will be using the same road the cyclist will to leave. The "Getting Around Guide" on the website has this information along with road closure info in it. 

Wetsuits... Cooler than normal temps have everyone anxiously waiting to see what the temp will be race morning. WE will take the official reading race morning around 5:00am. We will not use the Army Corps temp. That is a great resource leading up to the race to get an idea where the water is at. Race week we will take our own temp readings and post them on the Facebook page and announce them at the pre-race meetings. Due to the shallow body of water at Jordan Lake, the water temp can change rather quickly. We should have a much better idea where we are at race week and will let people know. 

Just a heads up, if the temp is between 76.2 and 83.8 and you choose to wear a wetsuit, you will start in a wave we will add as the last wave (start time of 8:22am). 

Looking forward to a great inaugural event in Raleigh. 

Brian Myrick