Gulf Coast Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 4)

LOL go get em tiger and good luck at SG

I'm signed up and quite excited, having trained diligently for this race ever since the beginning of the year.  It'll be my first full Gulf Coast since 2004 (I've participated in two relays since then).  If it's wetsuit-legal and if I can avoid falling apart in the last hour of the run, I'm hoping to beat my 2003 time, which would make it my fastest half-iron since my first one in 1991, also at Gulf Coast, when I was a young lad of 42.

If it turns out to be non-wetsuit-legal, I'll probably be a few minutes slower than that.  Here's hoping that everyone in Florida will generously travel to PCB and dump a tray of ice cubes into the water off the Boardwalk during the week leading up to May 8! 

Well I am still coming but I will only do the swima ndbike.  I'll DNF and it will be my own private aquabike................too many injuries and walking 13.1 miles is NOT going to help me be healthy for IMFL

I considered walking the run but to what end?  It is NOT going to help me recover in any way shape or form.  Right now my major goal needs to be to get to the start line of IMFL as uninjured as possible.  I'm willing to sacrifice the other races for that.  I pulled out of another HIM I had scheduled.  Its just not worth it

Hey Gulf Coasters. I am thinking about signing up for this race last minute and I was going to do it today. Im doing IMFL in November and I just wanted to be familiar with the coarse.  Has anyone heard anything about the recent oil spill in the Gulf and how it may affect the race or if it will affect the race? Im sure race directors always lean tword the safer side of things and they might not want over 1000 racers subject to swimming in oil....... Another concern of mine is IMFL. This oil spill is so big that they said it could take months to clean up.      http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/26/crews-race-contain-oil-spill-rig-blast/

My concern is this weekend it is suppose to be real bad weather 8-10 swells and it is suppose to move the oil around a bunch. With that and the race still over a week away Im thinking it may have potential to make it over to PCB. It is not going to be anywhere as of now because this just happened but in 9 days with moving water who knows. I emailed to race website guy and ill pass on any info i get.

I also have a foot/ankle problem. Ive been wearing a brace since Feb. Just did a race without it to try and save some time in T2 and im paying for it now. Im going to try GC but definatly wear the brace. Then Rest it

This is the response email I received. I also asked when registration closed so I can sign up for the race pending the situation. Looks like I might just wait till last minute.

Hi,
 
We are keeping an eye on the situation and if it becomes a serious problem we will act accordingly.
 
We will not be closing our race, so you will be able to register on Thursday or Friday before the race on Saturday.
 
Virginia