B2B Practice Swimming

countregirl - 2008-09-01 10:02 PM Went to Wrightsville Beach last Thursday and swam the half IM swim on Friday AM with the local YMCA tri group. Just wanted to let you all know how it went. It was VERY dark at 6 AM and it was a little challenging to calm the nerves (and I do not get nervous while swimming!) to not be able to see where I was going in the dark, in the salt water . However we ended up swimming with the Tri coach from the YMCA who gave us GREAT tips (I OWE HER!) about where to swim and sight...her name is Perry if you make it there on a Friday ask for her and swim with her she rocks! The swim itself was pleasant sans the salty taste and water up the nose and boats in pitch black flying past us. The current was downstream and I felt like I was flying (no wetsuit either). I hope it is like that on race day! The bike course was very flat and needless to say motorists in Wilmington do not seem to pay attention to people on road bikes, that was apparent after almost getting hit several times and feeling the truck brush my leg from the road. We did not make it far but it seems like a very flat very fast course. If you are going to practice this I would reccommend very early morning the traffic was just plain scary. The run course map was very poor and we were really not able to figure it out. I believe my partner in crime is emailing set up about this problem. Hope you all are training hard! I cannot wait for this race!!!! Heather

doubleplay - 2008-09-02 3:49 PM I don't see the point of riding the bike course specially since the drivers are not paying attention to bicyclists. It is just a flat boring course there is not much to it and I don't think you gain anything by riding it.