Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 22)

Brown_Dog

Found this from your 2009 B2B race report. it's a classic!

"First I remembered one of those sage IM sayings. IM is like wrestling a gorilla. You don't get to take a break when you are tired. You rest when he is tired. I started muttering to myself that the f'ing gorilla isn't tired."

I'm going to keep this in mind when those headwinds kick up, as I'm sure they will at some point.

I'm afraid that the monkey won't get tired... urgggg

For HIM, do athletes set up their T1 with anything (shoes, helmet, etc) aside from the bike , or does that all go into the T1 Change Bag? The guide implies the latter, though I am not sure what purpose that serves when we're not using the changing tent. I know swim gear goes into the bag for delivery to T2, but it seems easier to have the bike equipment laid out and ready to go rather than stuffed in a bag. 

I'm curious about this re: the IM, too.  Are we allowed to set up anything (helmet, sunglasses) on our bikes or does everything HAVE to go in the T1 bag?

I'm guessing we can do either/both?

Mine arrived in Central Ohio on Saturday in the mail.  It is a nice "booklet" printout of exactly what is in the download.  The cover is heavier paper stock and all of the pages are 17" x 11" folded and stapled to make the booklet.

That is exactly how it arrived, no manila folder, nothing else, just the 8.5x11 booklet.  It was nicer than I thought it would be.

Hope that helps!

The weather forcast I just read has changed to 60 percent chance of rain low of 42 high of 62.  Mother Nature needs to know that I am packed and the rain is not in my race plan.  Time to be adaptive. Good thing is that forcasts 5 days out tend not to accurate.

Got my race book today in the upstate of South Carolina

I'm in for thurday. See you all there.

If I recall correctly they were just kitchen garbage bags with the drawstring.  I had no issues with room on race day.

Yes, they were the white tall kitchen garbage bags.  

A thick permanent marker is useful for writing your bib # on white bags for easier ID.

I have some 2 gallon size zip lock bags that I have labeled T1, #60, Kizer (and so on) and started to shove stuff into.

It looks like a few people had posted this question and no had answered it yet, but I'll throw it out here again...does anyone have any details on the online tracking they claim they're going to offer?  I didn't see any reference to it in the race packet.