Black Bear Triathlon (Page 2)

Does anyone have a detailed description of Black Bear HIM course including turns/distances etc, the info I found in mapmyrun and cgiracing is insufficient

Thanks, Zvika 

Brian I was also up there today and planned on doing the full 1/2 (bike portion). But like you said the hills were crazy. Unfortunately I train with no hills here in South Jersey and I got my a$$ kicked today. I managed to get in 32 miles and then put the wetsuit on and jumped in the COLD Choppy water. A few from our team did the full 1/2 (bike portion) and even ran for about 40 minutes after the ride.

Its going to be a long day two weeks from now.

I checked the cue sheet on CGI site and it looks pretty good from what I saw today. 

Its possible we spoke.  Did you do the ride with a camelback?  If so you were speaking to John and then I came over at the end (the heavier guy).  I think we had about 10 from SJ there today.  We did see a bunch of people riding the course today.

See info in the race reports below from 2007

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=78568

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=78510

Hey all.  I just registered myself for the Blackbear Sprint and have a place up at Split Rock.

I would LOVE to be able to meet BT'ers somewhere before the race (early morning) near the transition area to get a few minutes video interviews of BT'ers doing the race - then followup with some post race video interviews.  To put together a nice video segment for the homepage.

Let me know...we should have a BT banner somewhere near transition to meet.

Can't wait to see ya...

Hi Everyone! I am signed up to do the Black Bear as my first triathlon and am getting a bit nervous! I was wondering if anyone could tell me more about the swimming portion... I've always done open water swims where wetsuits usually "disqualified" you so I hadn't planned on wearing one. But, it's cold now!! I will probably rent a wetsuit for the weekend... Just wanted to see what most people do...

 Thank you!

-Elizabeth

Denville, NJ

A few from my tri team swam in the lake this past Sunday and I would highly recommend a wet suit.  The temperature was real cold and I don't think it will change that much in the next two weeks.  It was a little choppy also but not real bad.  Just very cold.

Thanks so much, Dan! Do you think a full suit is better or would I be okay sleeveless? I didn't see any rentals in that area (other than for rafting) so I am going to try a mail order rental unless I find a local store that has suits for rent. This should be an experience!

Another thing about the swim. 

From what I hear Larry is looking for a way to add some hills in the SWIM.  So don't be surprised if the swim course changes.

I'm kidding of course.

Just keep in mind that is last years course.  There were some minor changes this year.