Revolution3 Full Distance : Official Thread (Page 4)

Glad to hear you are in officially! I am staying at Lighthouse Point cabins, so unfortunately I will not be doing any driving race morning, though I am sure someone can hook you up!

We were supposed to start tapering already? I've still got a century to ride tomorrow and 6k yards to swim Tuesday before I start to taper, crap, I hope I am not too late on that haha! 2 weeks!

Late to the game here... considering a last minute sign up for this one...

Can anyone tell me if they have ONLINE athlete tracking?  I can't seem to find info on their website and my family would not be traveling with me and I'm sure they would want to know how I'm doing... since I just did IMKY last weekend.

I can't believe this race is in almost a week!! Complete confidance in myself at this point that I WILL finish. Very paranoid about getting sick from the kids at school! One just got sent home this afternoon. 

Here comes the scrub downs and constant use of sanitizer.

10 day said 60% chance of rain with thunderstrms and wind.  UGHHHH!

for those of you planning on finishing late, what are you wearing for the Run???    I'm thinking i'll be 13:30 - 14:30 in good conditions.

Thanks

You, sir, are CRAZY!!! That being said.....I wish I could join you, but i'm working on my 5th day of being sick since IMKY. Plus, i'll be on a ship heading to the western Caribbean. However, I will be rooting for you and the other participants. I did the half last year and absolutely loved it. Rev3 puts on a great show. Enjoy!

I ended up starting in the middle of the pack on the inside of the lane. I decided I'd try to head right for the buoys taking the shortest distance.  Not sure if that was a smart move as I'm not the strongest swimmer - I did it in 1:37.  The first leg out was really jammed up - almost had to do a tarzan swim to breath because I was getting hit, kicked, grabbed, and run over - pretty much what you'd expect with 450 people all starting at once.  However, even though it was chaos to begin everyone was polite about it - no one got upset at all.  And once I hit the first turn buoy it seemed to break up and I was able to get clear water and finally got into a comfortable rhythm.  I'm assuming that that's the point where pretty much everyone else had passed me

Bike bottle exchange: is it an actual EXCHANGE or handouts? Are they handing out the Gatorade bottles or mixed stuff in regular bike bottles?

Sadly I think I am looking forward to this mass start. My first IM was an independant race with a few hundred peeps, but my last 4 have been IM brand with 2500+ folks trying to drown each other the first couple hundred yards. Should seem like a nice easy swim on Sunday

The last number I heard from Rev3 was about 450 in the full and 750+ in the half.  The mass start was really fun last year.  You walk so much from shore that it was a great thing to talk and cheer with everyone else.

Crazy as it sounds, I am most looking forward to the tattoo numbers.  I think that will look so cool compared to magic markers.

Yeah, I everything I read and hear about Rev 3 seems top notch. And with those numbers we can at least look like pros...well almost

Does any know if there will be race wheel rentals at expo?