A letter to Dallas Sports University (Page 2)

Beth just called me from the Coppell packet pickup.  Standard DSU cluster -- they weren't ready on time (you start at noon and you weren't expecting a rush?); nothing was already compiled (e.g. parking pass not staped to bag, numbers and tshirts not in bag) so they're putting it all together as you pick it up.

Took her 35 minutes to get through the line, which stretched the length of the store.  Given the limited number of pickup options, you might have suspected they would have more then one person working each line (separate lines for Sprint and Oly, both were very long).  You'd be wrong.

Hope the race itself goes better.  Good luck to all you racers!

Yes, as Dave said, it took me 35 minutes to get my packet.  And I arrived 5 minutes after packet pick up started!  I was not happy with the single location inside the metroplex for packet pickup, but even with that, 1-6 does not give people much time to actually drive to the location from a standard work day.  I can only imagine the chaos that place must have looked like from 5-6 tonight.

I will say that they had more goodies in the bag this time though.  A decent hat, socks, and a t-shirt.  Unfortunately not the tech shirts like 2 years ago, but not a bad combo.

I have two friends doing their first tri this weekend.  Please, please don't let the their be too much confusion!