Bone Island Tri - Full Iron Course : Official Thread (Page 5)

saw this on FB yesterday from BoneIslandTri

"BoneIslandTri Organizers are going to back down on the requirement for a full wet suit! We still highly encourage and recommend a full suit but will not disqualify anyone who does not use one. Sorry for all of the back and forth on this but we are just trying to be cautious and safety minded. There is the chance to come across a jelly fish or Portuguese Man-of-War in the Florida waters in January. The choice on wet suits, in our opinion, is best left in the hands of the athlete with our recommendation to use a full suit."

Thought everyone would like to know.

3 weeks post car vs bike accident I finally got my replacement bike.  Now everything is all set for January so back to regular training

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Saw that, torn on this one. Would prefer to wear a sleeveless just for comfort but the sounds of "Man o War" worry me a bit. Jellyfish are nasty but just the name Man o War gives me a not so fun feeling

I only own a sleeveless. Still haven't made up my mind on renting a full or not. I totally suck at swimming (my estimates have me finishing in just a hair under two hours). From what I understand, wearing a full kills your shoulders if you don't straighten out your arms on your stroke. Plus I expect to pass the halfway mark just before the start of the first wave of the HIM. I also expect the first three waves of HIM to pass me in the water on the second half of my swim.

So I expect I will have at least 300 people from the IM and HIM in front of me clearing the way. That is assuming a shark doesn't mistake me for a wounded harbor seal.

You will (should) not be disappointed from a race experience perspective.  I've done a number of SetUp Events races and they are top notch.  First year for this race so there may be some pains due to that, but overall I'd give SetUp a 5 star rating.

Less than 16 weeks to go, wow how quick this is coming now when it seemed so far away when I signed up.

How is the training going for everyone? I am just now getting back into it. Had way to much fun this summer and not enough training.

My pre-season was on point... but my original 20wk IM plan got hacked down to a 17wk IM plan. Thank you snapped spoke and strained right calf.

Hopefully, I will be back to full volume and speed before this weekends LSD's.

P.S. staying 4 blocks from the finish at the Merlin Guesthouse... so I won't have far to crawl and die.

Getting chilly out! I did a 12 mile run yesterday with temps in the upper 20s lower 30s.

I have a cold today...

Might be time to move to the treadmill but that just sounds awful for the weekly long run. How's it looking for everyone else?

Stumbled across this, I was curious how much daylight we would have in early Jan.

U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department

Sun and Moon Data for One Day

The following information is provided for Key West, Monroe County, Florida (longitude W81.8, latitude N24.6):

        Sunday           13 January 2013       Eastern Standard Time                                   SUN        Begin civil twilight       6:49 a.m.                         Sunrise                    7:13 a.m.                         Sun transit               12:36 p.m.                         Sunset                     5:59 p.m.                         End civil twilight         6:24 p.m.                                          MOON        Moonset                    7:13 p.m. on preceding day        Moonrise                   8:28 a.m.                         Moon transit               2:20 p.m.                         Moonset                    8:16 p.m.                         Moonrise                   9:11 a.m. on following day 

Phase of the Moon on 13 January:   waxing crescent with 5% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.

I just signed up for the host hotel also. Still can't find a reasonable flight. Not a fan of 10 hours of travel time and being in 4 airports in one day.

We ended up deciding to just do the 13 hour drive. All of the flights had total travel time of 11 - 13 hours with multiple layovers.  Now we will have our car and I don't have to stress about my biek getting lost/damaged on a flight.  Not looking forward to the drive but we are saving a lot of money.

Training for these things is WAY overrated, I have done  a few of them completely undertrained and let me tell you it is  a riot!!! Getting to about 60 miles on the bike and being ready to be done, the next 7 hrs of your life is a blast