Subject: RE: Tri the Park Indian Springs. I tried to sign up (late ) for Indian Sprinngs just after lunch today (Thursday ) and it is already closed out. I don't remember this ever happening before for the 500 capacity "Tri the Parks" (TTP ) races before.
I did the race last year and the lake was perfect, warm, fairly clear, and flat with no boat traffic or wind to stir it up. The swim timed out longer than any of the other 600 meter TTP races I've done before so the swim course was probably a little long.
There's a long steep uphill run to the T1 area and I remember sort of running to the back of it to enter. The transition area is setup on dirt instead of pavement so if it's rainy or wet it's bad. Exiting T1 there's a slight dirt downhill until the pavement and then a short distance to the mount up line which is downhill. They're several speed bumps to cross exiting the park on the bike and then a sharp right turn to a long steep uphill (check out the bike course profiles at the Tri Blue Sky website ). After reaching that hilltop the ride is not too bad but slightly uphill to the turnaround. After the turnaround pylon the ride back is easier because its mostly downhill and then there's the big hill to go down and at the bottom of that hill there's a sharp left turn into the park that takes most of the hill speed away. The rest of the way is uphill toward the transition area and then the dismount is slightly uphill.
The run is out of the back of the transition area across a grassy field to a main road that goes through the camping area and in both of the two camping area loops there's a steep hill returning to the main road. Once back on the main road it's easy running to the finish.
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