MUSKOKA 70.3 - Official Ontario Thread (Page 6)

Booked my room at Deerhurst today.  Came to $200/night all included...not bad.

Nice

So see you up there

When I called Deerhurst last year there was a 3 night min stay for that weekend. Is this the case this year?. My budget left me with a nice room at the Holliday Inn ($150). It's only 7 min away from the DH parking lot which is ok if you don't forget your goggles!!!

They told me 2 night minimum at DH.

Did the long and short course about 9 times between the two and have stayed in Bracebridge, for a fraction of the cost and a twenty minute drive to the pick up zone.  Two of my1/2  Ironman races last year involved shuttles that were mandatory and took 2 hours to complete.  Ironman Muskoka is so well organized that we arrived from Bracebridege and immediately caught a shuttle from the airport parking lot and were at the site before 6 am.  In the early season short course, we easily found good parking at 6 am.   Love these two races. 

Cheers.

Love the Muskoka Bike Course. ouucchhh!  But Yaaaa.

Hey guys,

Look forward to seeing you all at the race this year.  It promises to be bigger and better this year than even last year.  Water is still wet and the hills aren't any flatter.  Come on up and train here all summer long! 

If you have friends that want to try the 70.3, but don't want to do the full thing, then tell them to put in a relay team!  See if the three of them can beat you!  Not a chance!

Lots of room at the June 25 sprint and June 26 long course as well. 

Check out our new website that is going to be launched June 24th, 2011 which will have favorite areas to swim, bike, and run, as well as tips for where to stay and have fun.  Drop the kids off at one of our camps and have a week of guilt free training!

www.trimuskoka.com

Rich

Chair, TriMuskoka

Just found this thread, since I don't check in on the Ontario forum often (Quebec is the one that shows up automatically for me).

I'll be there this year! First ever HIM, looking forward to it, but I hear the hills are killer. Can't wait to do a few training rides out there!

Just remember - it's not the first 60km, it's the hills in the last 30km that's going to get you if you don't pace properly.

Thanks... that's good to know (and is always my problem.... I go out way too hard). Anyone planning any training rides for later in the summer? Might be worth the drive...

Yep,

I'm doing a training camp at Muskoka late July. And I think I wil ride the course at least one more time to make sure I know where I'll go

So, i went up for my first ride on the course this year - did it twice last year + the race - this past weekend and not to scare anyone because this has never happened before but I saw a bear run across the road when we were on the 117!! It was pretty far ahead of us and seemed to be gone when we passed

So, folks who are heading up just keep your eyes peeled! We hadn't seen anything like this before and I don't think it calls for carrying bear spray or anything.   More just reporting it as a 'wow, never have seen that before!' kind of thing.

Good luck to those going to success camp next weekend (i'll be cottaging and riding again as well)

No me, but I'll be going to Algonquin Park on the second weekend of August (12-14) to do a mini training camp, if anyone wants to join me. I will be doing a whole bunch of OWS, biking the course once, and probably another ride in Algonquin, and a couple of runs. So far, it's just me. Would love company!

The ride went well other than nearly being hit by a silver toyota FJ pulling a jet boat on 35. He did it on purpose as well, no traffic in the opposing direction and he was laying on his horn the whole time. I was climbing and pretty much on the white line so had no room to move over any further. As the truck past with in inches I was kind of sucked towards the gap between the truck and boat. An aerodynamic effect I suppose. I was very angry but today feel more sad that his life must truly suck that a cyclist on an otherwise empty road can incite that amount of rage.

Be careful out there.

That's really scary! I don't understand why people can't just share the road... Especially with a trailer, that's SUPER dangerous! Glad you're ok, Dave. Makes me want a training partner for when I do the course in a couple of weeks... Weekend of Aug. 13, if anyone wants to join. I'll be camping in Algonquin, and driving to Huntsville to probably swim and bike.

I did a 85k ride this weekend that was probably a bit hillier than the course, but I would NOT have been able to run a HM afterwards. Definitely glad I did that, as it kinda humbled me and made me realize what I'm up against.

Humbled - great word, cause that's how I felt after riding the course on Thursday.  I forgot just how hard the last 30km really is (even though I've written about it), and apart from my powermeter telling me the power was dropping off, the legs were just falling apart.  I just wanted to get off the bike and be done with it.  The heat probably didn't help, but this was a great wakeup call and with 8 weeks to go hopefully I can make some changes. 

The brick afterwards was not a pretty site...

I'm going to do the course this week end with my club.

I can't wait to see what's up there and a little bit scary as well... 

Neil...curious as to what cassette your are running on the back end...I am heading up in a week or so to do some riding and was thinking about switching out my 12-25 to a 12-27....do this hills warrant such a change?