Lone Star Triathlon Festival - Sprint

Yep!

Excited here too. First saltwater swim for me too.

I'm doing the sprint. It is my second sprint ever and also the first event for the year.

Les 

I am in for the sprint as well, first of the season.  I am looking forward to it.  This will be sprint number 6, I think.  This will be my second salt water open water swim.

I am so looking forward to the big group of BTer's as well.  See ya all shortly!

I'm in the first time's group.  I figure if it my first salt water swim I'm a first timer. I haven't done any open water training. My first and only was the Danskin last year and it was completely different than swimming in the pool.  I need the extra help!

Les 

That's great advice about the swim clinic.  I did it in 2006 and it was crazy!  But it was held on the gulf side in about 5 foot surf!  But the lifeguards were great and it was well worth the washing machine swimming.

I will have to check this out.  Thanks for the reminder!

Thanks for the heads up on the clinic. That sounds like it could be a great confidence builder. I'm trying to get my "support crew" ready to go by Friday AM (two teenaged boys and my BF) but it is sort of like herding cats. I'm coming from San Antonio and have been trying to find a route to Galveston that doesn't go through Houston....anyone?

Is there going to be a BT get together of any kind?  I heard there was a "house " last year!

24 Days! 

juls2bfit - 2008-03-03 9:43 PM I am very excited and very scared. This is my first tri ever Swimming is what I am most worried about. Can't wait to cross the finish line!

You picked a great race for a first timer!

The water is surprisingly smooth and not cold.  If you don't taste the water you'd assume you were in a lake!   You swim in a (hopefully) straight line almost parallel to shore -- for a lot of people it's comforting to see land everytime you breath to your left.   You swim toward a big paddle boat (a big white ship) before turning toward shore.  You don't have to worry too much about looking for the orange buoys marking the course since you can see the ship from far away.

And you have no hills to climb on the bike or run .

Brian

"They" say that you'll save about 10 seconds per 100 meters with a wetsuit.  So you'd save about one minute at this race.  Not a lot, really, considering that the race might take you over 75 minutes or more to finish. 

Personally I like using a wetsuit for any race I can.  The added buoyancy and speed is kind of nice.  It doesn't get much use use in Texas summer races though.   

There are some places online and brick-and-mortar where you can rent wetsuits.  You might try that for Lonestar before deciding if you want to buy one.

Brian 

Last year the water was fine temp wise. I checked this morning and it's at 62.5 degrees today. May not be as warm this year. Avg temp is 72 deg

fwiw 

I'll mention how undertrained you are while your passing me