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2008-06-26 9:47 PM

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Subject: Who's going to be at Waconia this weekend?
With the additional bike distance, this one is really going to favor the bikers this year!

2008-06-27 7:44 AM
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I'm in...

Thankfully the extra distance is on the bike and not the swim?

(Well for me at least.)
2008-06-27 7:47 AM
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I am in...I mapped out the bike course using the mapping feature in our training logs, and there is CONSIDERABLY less elevation change on this years course than last years (~1000 TY feet compared to ~2500 LY)

The extra distance on the bike will be nice, but if you are not well prepared for a hilly run, it will eat you alive!!

 

I love this race!...just not the swim, it seems like it is always windy and white capped

2008-06-27 8:19 AM
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I am in and thankful for the reduced elevation.
2008-06-27 8:30 AM
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lary - 2008-06-27 8:19 AM I am in and thankful for the reduced elevation.

With the projected wind at 20mph...it will still be awful!

2008-06-27 9:48 AM
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Here is the latest wind forcast... Swim is going to be rough!!!  out of the NW... running strong all night!!!  UGH!!!!

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Visibility (mi)151515151515151515151512858121515151515151515

2008-06-27 9:58 AM
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that is exactly what I did not what to see....that swim is going to SUCK with a capital S>U>CK>!

Does anyone own a surfboard?  The whitecaps on the way out are going to be nasty!



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2008-06-27 4:06 PM
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Yeah, but we might be able to body surf on the way in
2008-06-27 10:13 PM
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getting better!!!

 

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2008-06-29 10:02 PM
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Subject: RE: Who's going to be at Waconia this weekend?

... so "a little choppy" was a bit of an understatement!!! 

Rough water on the way out!  Good training for me... not a great race, but overall "ok" with my results... probably left 5-7 minutes out on the course today!  Hope everyone did well!  I heard more than 30 people were pulled out of the water today? 

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ball6135 - 2008-06-29 10:02 PM

... I heard more than 30 people were pulled out of the water today? 



I came this close to being one of them. I felt as though I was swallowing more water than I was pushing past me.

You really could body surf on the way in though. I bet my ratio for time out to time back had to be something like 4::1.

How high do you think those waves were? 3 feet?
2008-06-30 12:46 PM
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Subject: RE: Who's going to be at Waconia this weekend?
Ah Ha! I'm putting it all together now! BILL.

Not sure how I managed to get the 29th fastest swim split of the day? Usually I'm wayyy down on the swim list. Then battled the wind to put together a decent bike & run.

Mentally I just wasn't in the game on Sunday morning.

Just 3 weeks and two races before Spirit of Racine...

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