spring mock tri followed by mimosas? ;) (Page 2)

LOL...

The 12th is out for anybody doing the New Prague half as well as myself, I have class on that day.  I think this is going to be a case where we just need to pick a date and run with it.  No way is every date going to work for all.

Hello and welcome! Of course you're welcome to join! The more, the merrier!

I don't know what the latest is for dates, but at that time of year, I'd strongly advise a wetsuit. Can you borrow one from anyone, by chance? Some places rent them as well, I believe.

Autumn mentioned memorial day being an option.  That falls on May 28th.  Anybody think that would work?  I also like May 13th, but I know that is Mothers day and I hate to get anyone in trouble.  If this is something people want to do lets just come up with a date that works for most people and go for it.

Kelly and Bryan are open for

May 13th and May 28th

Mother's Day I'm out, Memorial Day SHOULD work for me.  We have a church picnic that afternoon.  If I don't have too many set-up responsibilities, I'll be there.  I should have my new wetsuit by then as well.

BTW, after Memorial Day, I start regular open water swims.  I swim Lake Nokomis (west beach) in the morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually about 6:30am to 7:15am.  After the swim, I change at the 'oversized' (handicap accessible) Port-O-John or the public access restroom (if it's open) into a T-shirt and sweats and shower and change at my work gym.  Not the best situation, but I'll take any OWS practice that I can get.  Send me an inspire if you're interested.

There's usually about a half dozen triathletes training in the morning, and more once it gets closer to the Lifetime Fitness Tri in mid-July (it's the 'starting' beach for Lifetime).  Most folks swim laps just outside or inside of the buoys (length of beach is 'about' 87 yds).

I'm not familiar with the Mpls lakes very well, but think they would be a good central place to do this.  I'm thinking something like .25 swim, 7-10 bike and 2-3 run.  Something short just to work the kinks out.  I'll start leaving messages for everybody who has responded to this page and any other Minnesotans I can think of and try to come up with the best date possible.  We'll be bringing out 11 year old and 5 year old so I'm sure we could figure out what to do with other peoples kids.  We'll go with a simple majority rules for the date.  Either May 13th, which is Mothers day, or May 28th which is Memorial day.  If we do it Mothers day we'll aim for early so people can go do the family stuff.  Please vote for one or bothe of the dates and we'll go with the majority.  I'm willing to keep track of people and announcements if someone else can help with the location.  So far we have the following requests.

Bryan and Kelly      Both dates

Autumn                   Both dates

Sparco                    May 28th