Tawas Triathlon Festival - HIM : Official Thread (Page 2)

Someone's got taper madness taking over all ready, I can't imagine how bad it will be next week

I don't get much of a taper, just a slight slow down in IM training by cutting out my long ride and run.  You guys will have the madness which will get your bodies ready to hammer on race day!  I think I had about a 10 day taper last year for my first HIM. 

I'll just be using the race as a training day to work on nutrition and pacing.  I can't hammer it to much as I get one day off then have a 17 hour training week right after the race

Ha, the finish is in front of G's Pizza.  They have some damn tasty pizza, try the double crust ninja turtle pizza!  Then finish it off with some ice cream, life is going to be good

The 2 loop run course will be nice as B2B IM is a 2 loop out and back run course.  This will work out very nice for the pacing I'll use on IM race day, but I'll miss running along the lakeshore.

The IM training is indeed CRAZY.  I'm doing a 30 week program and have going at it for 20 weeks now, not including all the training done over the winter to have a decent base.  I can't wait til race day then I'll take a couple of weeks off after Nov 7 and not worry about being up early to get my workouts in.

How'd you get a site # all ready?  I looked at the reservation system awhile back and couldn't make a site specific reservation.  At this point were taking the trailer and will try the city park first and if that doesn't work will head to the Point.  Are you getting there on or before the 9th?  I see you can make specific reservations til then. 

I assume they moved us close to the pier since that's the most direct shot to the road that will lead us to the transisiton area.  The swim and transistion last year were at the city park south of the campground, which would make to long of a haul to T1, which is all ready going to be a decent hump.  I'm thinking of dropping a pair of old shoes to wear from the water to T1, I'll figure it out for certain on race morning.

Atlas where are you making reservations?  I'm very confused if your only going for the weekend there isn't site specific reservations and your comment on only two sites being left made me check the reservations and there are still 94 sites open that I can use with a 30 foot trailer at Tawas Point.

If its packed we may be just head up to Harrisville, Van Etten, or down to Bay City as there were a ton of party groups at Tawas in July and could make for a tough night of sleeping if your unlucky enough to be next to those types of groups.

Ray, just so you know you don't have a site specific reservation from what I see.  You have what you could consider a "General Admission" site.  When you show up you pick a spot and let them know which one you took.  We used to camp every year on the same weekend as Tawas but at another park and it was the same way, in order to get lakefront sites in the park we stayed at we'd show up on Thursday morning to assure our water front spot.  If you get there early enough you shouldn't have much of a problem.  I'm not sure what to expect for that weekend.

What time are you going there on Friday?  The wife and I are thinking of driving up Wednesday and dropping the trailer off at the city park if there are openings then going back Friday morning.  We really want to be in town for this quick trip, plus I have to winterize the trailer as will be the last camping trip of the year having full hook ups makes the job a bit easier.

Just an FYI sites 38, 40, 42, 43, 44 are all nice sites, I walked by all the sites while out with the Rotts, but can't recall the area of 102.  We camped in 34 in July.  There's a walkway to the bathroom between sites 57 and 59 so you could still be close to the bathroom and be able to look across the bay at the race location.  For some reason they haven't updated there camp maps to show the walkway.

Enjoy your taper madness, I'm not looking forward to that again and will be dreaming up all kinds of weird stuff by the end of October and first week of November.