St. Anthony's Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 4)

They have not changed the scrolling thing on the St. Anthony's site...it still says when registration opens.  I think it usually says once it's full but I could be wrong.

If you want to do it, take a shot.  They won't let you register if it's full.  There's a chance they are still sorting through duplicate registrations from the registration debacle and maybe some spots opened up????

I guess that would explain it. Thanks Bud.

How's Eglin?  That was you that was moving right?

I'll be heading up north of your current pos to Bismarck for a few days next week.  Lucky me eh?

I'm not there yet.  The powers that be are slow-rolling my orders.  D'oh!  I want to get there ASAP!!!

Enjoy Bismarck....

When I looked it said full next to the individual age group (where the prices are listed).  As stated, they may have sifted through the double entries and opened up more slots.  Since many people thought it was full, most probablyt are not looking.  With the problems Active was having, I imagine alot of people signed up twice.  I totally thought I did as it "TIMED OUT" and gave me an error message when the CC was processing.  I hit the back button and hit enter again, and it went through.  Then I got 2 confirmation emails with the same confirmation number...  But I was only charged once.  Who knows, I say go for it, if you get in, cool, if not, see you at MIT, I am doing both.

I just went back out, Individual and Relay are showing FULL.  Pro, Charity and Meek and Mighy are available, so it lets you get pretty far before you dead end.

No, thanks for the info.  I just pinged my charity people for MC Marathon.  Don't think I can tap them again so quickly.  May have to switch to MIT.  Thanks again.  Good luck out there!

If anyone needs a hotel room, let me know. I booked a room at the Hampton Inn before Jen and I decided to share a room....I am still holding it, as I know a lot of places have booked up. So if you need a room, PM me and we'll figure out how to put it in your name.

is that close to the race site?  i was looking to book a place today for the wife and I.

pm sent!!

It is a crowded race but at the same time it's so full of energy.  I really like the fact that there are so many people, however I never felt "crowded" on the course.

The transitiom area however is a different story.  It is a bit tight.

Did anyone else get the email from Philip LaHaye? I was expecting some sort of apology about the registration process, or an explanation!? But nothing.....

Needless to say, I'm pretty disappointed.

X2.

Grass. look at my album for an aerial shot of the transition. I've heard of cleats getting clogged with mud, but never seen it happen.

A piece of advice for St. A's newbies:

Bring a throw away pair of shoes (if you don't have an SO to hold them for you).

The walk from Transition to the Start is rather long to do barefoot.

Though one year I saw the pro men RUNNING it barefoot.  Studs.

Ditto on clipping the shoes to the bike.  Practice it first obviously, but this is a good race to have it down.  The transition is grass/dirt and has not been muddy the last two years.  That said, if it rains, yikes.  Plus, the first and last 1/2 - 3/4 mile of the bike, aka, the part where you clip in and clip out is brick and a little slick when trying to navigate in bike shoes with cleats.  Much safer to run it in bare feet and hop on a moving bike.  It also helps run past some of the inevitable congestion of people stopping to get on their bikes the second they get 1 foot past the mount line.

Also a great idea on disposable flops.  Go to CVS and buy the cheapest $2 pair you can find.  Almost a mile walk from the transition to the swim start.  Oh yeah, leave yourself enough time, you do not want to run it like I did last year because I screwed around too long in transition.

2 years in a row now running with speedplays through transition and both times I had to do a little tap dance after the mount line before I got on my bike.  Not a big deal for me but if you're concerned about it I would say clip your shoes to your bike if you can do the flying mount move.