Tri the Parks - John Tanner State Park : Official Thread (Page 2)

Woah... Not sure I have enough time to get ready for 3 more miles.  I might ask for a refund. :D

Hey guys, from your previous years how cold is the water there? I know it depends of course from the weather but what is the general water temps? Who has done the swim without the wetsuit? I don't have one and i don't plan on buying one for next week so I'll be swimming without it.

Any advice?

you can probably swim without one. the lakes in ga are warming up to the mid 60s.however, most coaches will tell you take the free speed of a wetsuit.

what size are you? i have a cheap extra large QR full sleeve one for sale and all3sports.com rents them cheap if you choose. i also have a discount code for my pals.

I'm probably a medium or a large never got fitted for one so i have no idea. I'm 5'9 about 180lbs so whatever that equals out to. I'm not too worried about speed this is my first Tri i just want to survive it and have fun unless my competitivness takes over and then i kill myself trying to keep up with some of you guys heheheh

Thanks for the advice so far

of course your competitiveness will take over.

i also have a large full sleeve blue seventy helix from 09 for sale. check the sizes online if you are interested.

Thanks Slayer I will check it out if you see a guy going blue from cold on next Saturday that is probably me

^^This^^

I've done JT with and without a wetsuit.  The only main difference was time. 

Yeah it might be worth it then if it shaves of a whole minute from the 600 yards swim. Definitly something to start saving for

Awesome thanks BThunder for the info I will be without a wetsuit

You've got it, use it.  Otherwise, what's the point of having it?  (in my opinion).

The first 6 miles are net downhill (even with the revised course) so make your time there.

Ok so you guys will love this story.

Today at lunch I headed to All3Sports to pick up my package. I came in there and the nice lady told me that I wasn't on the list. I sort of freaked out and I was thinking man what in the world happened did I use the wrong card number, did it get declined what happened? I knew I received a confirmation that I registered and of course I didn't have a laptop or anything to check. There was another lady there (sorry for referring to them as "lady" but I didn't get their names). She ended up calling her husband to check and it turns out I did registered. I registered for JOHN TANNER #2 in September HAHAHAHAHAHA

My God talk about feeling like a total dumb blank blank blank

Luckily the nice ladies allowed me to register for Saturdays race (again??) loll. Only a newbie would do something like this. Well if anyone knows who those ladies were I just want to say THANK YOU AGAIN and see you all Saturday.

Let's hope I don't forget my bike or something

Anyways figured you guys might like the story if you need a laugh

See ya

Edin

Looks like I'm in for John Tanner. The RD was very generous in letting me register late after the Tri For The Kids was canceled today. Looks like I get to see the Cap'n vs. Slayer battle royale!

- Kerry

WTH?

Noone has updated their blogs with race data! I'm dying here...

Remember, ppl, I'm living vicariously through you guys right now!

I need some results!

POST THEM!

MOVE IT, MOVE IT, MOVE IT!

splits up d00d . too tired to do race report so will summarize

hillier course than i expected. water was great. excellent attitude there amongst people I hung with.awards take a bit of patience, but a great race put on my by triblue sky.

for me personally

decent swim, normal insane bike and strong run until the nasty hidden hills, but otherwise on fire! great times.

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Those hills will not be easily forgotten hehehe. This was my First Tri and i loved it. Didn't get to meet slayer or captain but i see Slayer won very nice job man.

I took 12th out of 48 male Novice even though they posted my times under 25-29 age groupers which in that class I didn't do that well . Run will definitly need to improve. Ran a 9 plus average those hills midway killed me. I kept about 18 average on the bike which was ok and swim was almost 13 min which i guess is ok for first open water swim.

Definitly hooked and i will definitly be coming back for more.

Thank you all for advice and support on these forums it definitly helped see you all out there

Edin

If you ran the John Tanner event, please take a couple of minutes to rate it:

http://georgiatriathlete.blogspot.com/p/georgiatriathletecom-race-rater.html

I'll have a few photos up tomorrow.

- Kerry