Beach 2 Battleship Iron Distance : Official Thread (Page 29)

BT peeps who aren't gonna do a practice swim, here's what I can share with you. I went for a 15 minute swim this morning from the blockade runner. You will be COLD waiting for swim start! If you don't have booties, or at least some thick socks to wear prior to swim start, go get some. Booties were awesome! Once you get in the water you will be fine. It was a little chilly, but a lot warmer than the air. It felt good. The cold is really gonna be rough when we come out of the water. Within about 1 minute of coming out of the water, I couldn't feel my fingers. I had trouble just getting out of my wetsuit and putting my cloths on. It feeling nice now though. I think about half an hour on the bike and I will be good!

Good Luck everyone!

Good Luck Everyone!!!
After racing the past 2 years, I am volunteering this year. Don't take this the wrong way, but I hope I don't get a chance to meet any of you during the race... I am driving the sweep truck from Blueberry to T2

Mark

There wasn't any last year. There was some indoor/outdoor grass type stuff on the dock and then just asphalt/concrete for the sidewalks and road.

Good luck to all tomorrow. Special thanks to DanielG for taking the time out to share some of his tri knowledge with me. BTW, I'm Bib #733. Cant wait to get started

Don't thank me until you figure out whether it's worthwhile or not

This morning was fun.

Definitely Underarmour Cold Gear long sleeved shirt, bike jersey over that, tri shorts and Nike tights, socks and toe covers. That was COLD!

I'll reevaluate that at special needs and see what I want to ditch.

Hey all!
Swam this morning at Blockade, nice meeting the guys out there.  Booties were good, tried getting a neo cap and gloves but there were out.  Have neo cap that is too small, may try to make it work.  For the bike I am going with base shirt, bike shirt, gloves, hood, arm warmers and shoe covers.  Tried a test ride this morning with just arm warmers and the ride back was cold!

Good luck to everyone tomorrow!!!

Here I sit at fat tony's. The three of us. Me, myself and I.

LMAO! After all that planning. Can't believe no one showed up!

Bogus! Sorry man... came out w/out the wife & she wanted some "us time".

Thanks everyone for the support & info. Not that you need it, but the very best of luck!

(Yes... it was COLD this morning. I ended up getting surf booties & cap.) 

Ramona/monaskleinewelt and I met up with a small BT group at Fat Tony's, really enjoyed that! Thank you Dan for putting it together!

Off to bed we go.. she's doing the half (bib 1513), I'm doing the full (441). Good luck to everyone racing tomorrow!

Well, we had a few. It was pleasant and some rather nice people to get to know.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow...

Is there any athlete tracking for this event?

Setup Events is supposed to have live tracking this year with updates every 30 mins.Try this link
http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=lrkzs4bab&et=1103886478253&s=49923&e=00192v13vB5EtYULFkS2deP_P0ucDw4rJ

It comes up as an invalid event. I dont see anything mentioned on Setup's main page or B2B main page.

Wow, what a day. Let's go swimming!

7 am
38° F
Sunny
Feels like 32° F
precipitation 10%
humidity 89%
From NNW 8 mph

Hey all!
Hope everyones day went well.  Had a decend swim but a lousy ride.  Congrats to all!

Where was all that current?

No KIDDING! It traded places with the cold, obviously.

What's with that 70 miles of headwind?

First off, I want to say congratulations to ALL OF YOU!  After my husband and I finished the HIM, we returned to the Hilton, showered and then sat out in front of the hotel to cheer you all on!  You guys are just amazing!  So strong, with iron belief in yourselves.  I've never spectated at the iron distance before and it was an honor to do so.  BIG CONGRATS!!!

Now, onto the race:

I did the HIM and it didn't feel like we had a mega current either (although I know that we had more than the full).  My swim time was 6 minutes slower than Augusta 70.3 (I did the race in '09, it has a very strong current), but only 5:30 minutes faster than FL 70.3 (which is not wetsuit legal, is in a lake and has zero current).  I think the wind/chop may have played into it somewhat for the people in the half-- overall swim times were much slower than last year.

The wind... wow... yes, I suppose that's what provided us with the glorious clear, cool weather but it was definitely a bugger!

The run course was challenging, yet very fair.  As a South FL athlete, I am used to pancake flat races, so I feel exceptionally proud of myself this morning for being able to navigate both of those bridges and the other inclines and interesting challenges (cobbles- loved them) along the run course.  That Ann St. hill hurt more going DOWN (my ITB had flared up) than going up!

Once again, BIG congats!!  Y'all are rock stars!!!

Was good to see you on the bike. I'm the guy who asked about your disc, and if you were on BT.

I was wonderin' who that was. "I recognize the bike"

It was great seeing you.

Great job to all of the IM racers.  You guys/gals are studs. 

I did the HIM, and it was all I could do to haul my broken self across the finishing line.

Everyone traveling home today, be safe.