Lone Star Triathlon Festival - Half Iron : Official Thread (Page 9)

The 'warm-up' right before each race is a possibility. But practice swims on Friday or after the Olympic race on Saturday is out.   

Sounds good best to suggest time and place.

All the women start later in the morning so potentially we could meet sometime race morning briefly.

Other thing is to exchange cell numbers. Anyone wants mine PM me.

I just wanted to weigh in a I read most of the thread right now. I have never done this race before in Glaveston and am really looking forward to it. Biggest concern is the heat and humidity, but I am sure it is for everyone. It is motivating reading everyone's messages. I know my wave is now at 7:35 am with 113 other goofballs in the water all splashing around. I keep reading about no practice swimming on Friday or Saturday - where does everyone plan to get a practice swim in? I think that is odd- I did my first IM in CDA last yr and you could practice swim every day before the race, although they did have designated times for it. Anyway, good luck to everyone! As far as women going last, I don't know about that as I have seen plenty of fast women in these races that gender really doesn't seem to matter.

Good Luck!

The whole reason we are going down early was to swim Friday and Saturday.  Does anyone know of anywhere else we can swim?  Do they consider the area by the paddle wheel boat as property of Moody Garden. 

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has anyone sent an email to he RD about a swim location?

see the link above for another thread about the race with some swim options...

Best of luck to y'all - see ya on the course. 

i haven't asked him about a swim location other than moody gardens.  moody gardens suggested the boat ramp on 61st street.  i agree with you're earlier post frank, that's not a good idea.

We arrive at Hobby at 11am. We hope to swim some place Friday and again Saturday. We may stop by at the lake mentioned on the other thread on the way to Galveston Friday.

Kathy,

I will also be running over to Lake 288 on Friday at around 4pm.

It's a great venue to swim Kathy.  Y'all could easily slide by 288 lake and then head into Galveston...
Fattyfatfat has a good map of the swim course with the distances if you are interested in that as well...

Hey fatty, pay attention... you may have to lend your geogrpahy skills to the group! lol! 

Swim Links in Houston

http://288lake.net/home

http://www.scubapark.net/ aka twinlakes

hope this helps

and spelling skills to it seems. ha!

unfortunately he's moved the buoys since the last time i was there so the map no longer accurate.

keep in mind 288's hours are 2 - 8 on friday.  jeremy will open earlier for a group of 5 or more. 

You mean you can't just go and swim whenever?

How long would it take to get there from Hobby? If we arrive 11am, get my bike in rental, I figure we'll be out of airport around noon.

Now I guess we need a plan B. I don't want to sit around waiting until 2...maybe we could go eat then swim and upset all our mothers.

Or maybe best to just try to swim at race site.

Decisions...decisions....

its a private lake.  and we're using the term lake here fairly loosely.  it's nice water... but not very big.  you can see it on either of the maps below.

15 minutes from hobby. map

~1 hour from there to moody gardens  map

personally, that seems like more of a hassle to get off a plane, go swimming, dry off then head to galveston.  but we could try to find a few people that would meet you there at 12.  owner said he'll open at noon if 5 people show up.   

I think I'm going to take my chances and swim Friday afternoon.  I know all the sprints and olys will be trying to get in the water.  They can't kick us all out.  And then take my chances again on Saturday afternoon

I'm up for that as well, Justin. Too hectic to try and committ to lunch, but I do want to have a chance to be social.

from our ride this morning.  lol! 

that's brand new smooooooth blacktop in the westbound lane.  doesn't cover the entire ride out to the pass, but a good portion of it. 

Come on we start at 7:55 and let's say have horrible swim on our bikes at 8:55 that gives us 4.5 hours to finish...I think we can do that even with some bike issues.

Today was my last long run 70' and it was sprinkling and in upper 30s. I had to dig out my winter stuff which I had put away earlier in the week. Next long run I'll do will be 13.1 and say in the 70s some 40 degrees warmer...next Sunday.

Really looking forward to the race however this volcano business is starting to worry me. Due to fly from the UK on thur and it doesnt look like they are lifting the flight restrictions any time soon.

Big bummer..hope the volcano in Iceland calms down and you can make it. European flights are a mess from what I've seen on the news.

Keep us informed what it looks like later in the week. Hope by Thursday things are back to normal flight wise.

To the amusement of many Kevin & I did short swim in our wetsuits at our local YMCA.  Pool was over 80 so I didn't keep mine on for long but glad to get one swim in before flying to TX. Glad we can do another swim Friday after we land at Hobby.

I'm getting excited and having that pre first race of the season nerves.

So which way do we hope the wind blows if it isn't still and calm Sunday?

I still would put in a weather request for 65 and sunny without wind if possible.

I'm enjoying tapering but am busy with kids off school this week and test riding possible new bikes plus add in packing.

How's everyone else doing?