Beach 2 Battleship : Official Thread (Page 22)

It's a great race to race, but not so good for spectators.  If you have family that will try traveling around it can become difficult since the battleship is isolated from town across the river.  My wife was bummed she couldn't see the start and had limited areas to stand near the battleship for T2 due to a high water table from high tide.  When I was running there were plenty of half families and participants riding or walking with all there bags along the run course to get back into town which is a couple of miles so the waits were pretty bad at some point for them.  It was much improved from 2008 so maybe they'll get things setup even better for 2010.

When I got done with the full the waits weren't bad but I didn't feel like hanging out as I didn't want to end up in a long wait so instead of cheering folks on from there we did it from our rental house that was right on the run course.  Seemed to give some a lift because it's kinda lonely along that section.

It seemed as though I was busier then I wanted to be on Friday due to the spread out nature of the course and traffic can be bad at times, so getting from Wilmington to Wrightsville gets to be a PIA, especially if your doing it multiple times.

I liked the course overall as a racer, especially since it's not an IM event with 2500 + folks so drafting wasn't an issue on the bike and there were plenty of officials out there to keep things clean for the most part.  I really can't stand blatant drafting which will happen when a course has to many participants.

Overall though we really enjoyed Wilmington!  The wife and I explored town on Sunday and Monday and had a great time as there are so many great places to eat and there's a lot of fun bars.  We drank entirely to much but really enjoyed just being able to walk around.  We plan on returning to Wilmington some day we really liked it that much. 

Tripaddle,  If you are thinking of doing it next year. You may want one of those lights that clip to your visor for the run.  I had one, but unfortunately I was not going fast enough to need it so I just kept it in my pocket except to look at my watch occasionally.  I guess I should have handed it off to Carol and maybe she would not have fallen. 

x2.  I was kinda of shocked that it wasn't in the picture when I saw them this morning. 

mr2tony - 2009-11-18 9:50 AM

Superk75 - 2009-11-17 8:37 PM Just got my athlete packet in the mail.  Perfect timing. 

Ha I never did get mine. I wonder if they'll DQ me for such.

I got mine the Thursday before the race. 

Are any of you planning on doing the race again next year?  I am pretty sure that I am going to sign up unless something unforeseen happens.

BTW, I know this is a long shot and I have already email the race people, but somehow my Orca S1 wetsuit did not make it to bag pick up.  If anyone hears anything about it, I would love to get it back as opposed to buying a new one.