Galveston Half Iron Man (Page 9)

umm, yea, really didnt need to know that!!

National weather service forecast for Galveston on Sunday:

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 75. Breezy, with a south wind between 15 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

It looks like we'll be racing in 73F-75F temps, 17mph SSE winds with gusts up to 23mph, very cloudy skies (95% cloud cover), and 90-100% Humidity.   20% chance of rain after 12pm so it may be a rainy run (which may dictate my shoe choice as I need something that drains well).

Forecast is changing daily but I sure hope the humidity goes down a little bit...

Good luck to everyone racing! I am jealous, but my time for an HIM will be later this year. I hope everyone has a great race!

Regarding weather forecast vs actual conditions: I haven't done the bike course down there, but I have spent a lot of nights and early mornings on West End beaches. For fishing plans, we always add 5-10mph to the wind forecast, and we're seldom disappointed. You may get some light/variable winds early on, but it will live up to the forecast, and more, as the day goes on.

Oh, and don't expect the humidity to be any lower than forecast either. No quarter.

Have fun!

I am racing in the sprint tomorrow. I did 3 sprints last year and this is my first one for this year.  I am a surfer and have a wetsuit. Is there a difference between the wetsuit I wear for surfing than the ones everyone will wear for the triathlon.  I know one difference is the knee and arm pads.  I just want to make sure that wearing my surfing wetsuit will give me the same bouincy advantage that a tri wetsuit.

Thanks,

3 little girls in the hotel room right now making posters. Who wants their name on a poster? You know you do! Post names so we can holler for you!

"Lezlie M."   and "Jason M."

We'll take any extra race support we can get! 

Great race...learned a lot since it was my first!!!

However, very sad that the results are listed for everyone.  It seems like they stopped the tracking or posting of times after a certain cutoff point.  I finished (within the time limits) but it doesn't say I did :-( According to the results page, only 10 people in my age group finished and 56 of us DNF (well, some of them have times for some of their run loops but there are 3 of us that don't even have that.)  Hopefully it is just a fluke and it is something they are working on fixing.  I know the timing mat was reading me, I heard it beep everytime I crossed and when I crossed the finish line, the announcer was able to call my name.  Hopefully I will eventually get an actual time since I forgot to stop my watch when I crossed.

Well, I wonder where that happened?

I hope the rest of you had a great race! Mine came to an end at mile 23.5 on the bike course. I am not sure how, because there is now about 30 minutes of my life that I cannot account for, but one second I was looking at the cell tower thinking how really awesome it was about to become with that tailwind, and the next I was staring into the face of an EMS guy. A nice little ride in the red bus to UTMB, cat scan and xrays (both negative, thank you Lord) and a few stitches in my upper lip. I did manage to make it back from the hospital in time to watch some of the later run finishers.

So if any of you happened to see what happened to a slow fat guy wearing a white jersey and riding a P2, puhleeze let me know. I just want to know what I missed :-)

Again, hope all of you enjoyed your race. Now I am DEFINITELY signing up for Kansas!

I have to ask...... does anyone know what was up with the women who was running in her wetsuit? I was shocked to see her running by with her wetsuit down around her waist and the arms tied so they weren't bouncing around??????

Nobody could figure it out????