Silver Springs or Moss Park?

i live just a couple miles from Silver Springs and i'm all but sure i'm gonna do the August race.   This must be a new event as i've never heard of them before.

As far as the bike route, i thought at first it wouldn't cross the Oklawaha bridge.....but i'm not for sure.   I just can't imagine they would have riders make that cross.   No way most novice riders (including myself) could make it across or go down at the speeds you would gain coming off it.

For the run, i've ran a charity 5k in the park a few times and i'm sure its the same route.   If so, flat and shady.

I'm gonna email the hosts of the race and ask about the biking.

I'll post back when i find out for sure.

ok, for anyone interested....i got an email from the race host and he explained the biking route.

the route will not take you over the bridge.   it's a 10k out and back.  i know the route and can say it's all relativly flat and will be a good ride.

the swim start is near the glass bottom boat attraction and the run is inside the park (as i mentioned in my earlier post).

i'm definitely doing the August race.

I did Moss Park a couple years ago.  It was a nice course.  The swim is in a lake, and it is really murky, no visability at all, and cold.  The bike is kinda technical, lots of twists and turns, outside the park through some nice residential neighborhoods.  There were home owners actually sitting in lawn chairs cheering as you went by, that was kinda' cool.  The course was well marked and well secured with local law enforcement when i did it.  The run was inside of the park and most of the run is under canopied trees on hard packed gravel.

I enjoyed it, of course it was also my first race ever.

I actually went and watched this and thought it was highly unorganized.   I was standing by the bike transition where they were marking down athletes coming in for their bikes...and the guy marking times had to get a pen from a spectator because his ran out of ink in the middle of marking down times.

Also, the runner leading the first leg of the Dual took an extra lap around the course because there was noone out there to tell him where to go.   He was highly pissed when he made it to the bike transition and they told him what had happened.

I was considering doing the August race, but i've changed my mind.   I realize it was the first, but man they seemed lost when i was watching them scramble during the race.    They needed more help to run the event than they had.

The swim did look fun, but way too easy.   You could probably lay on your back and float all the way down the river in 20 minutes.

I'll probably go out and watch the September race to see if they worked the kinks out, but i'm doing Daytona the week they are doing race #2 in the series.

If anyone does the race this weekend in Silver Springs, let me know, I'm not sure if I should sign up for the early september one, but I want to get the new bike to a race .....

I still want to hear about the silver springs this past weekend, give me some comments, I don't know if I should do it !!!!

 Thanks