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Dave,

Hope to see you out there for one the pre-rides/Swims. Congrats on the crushing bike split at the Powersprint. Maybe you can give us some tips on how to handle the big hill on the Tavern course.

Another member of Team Gimpy here!  I'm the runner. 

My advice for the hill: save some gears!  It gets steeper towards the top and I think a lot of people run out of easier gears too quickly and end up walking.

I WAS AT THAT CLINIC, HE DID A GREAT JOB!!

That does not sound like a fun course.  I'm curious why they made that change.

I am guessing but since the development wouldn't let RMS use the boat landing further upstream the only choice for the swim start is where we are starting now. If we didn't have the V, the course would only be about 250m. I think that is kinda short for an ows sprint course especially when you consider that it is a downstream swim.

I wish we could go back to doing an out and back and use the new course only if there is a strong current.

IT'S POSTED ON rms SITE WHY.

I think your caps lock is stuck on. 

Does sound like it was problems with one of the developers.  Frustrating from our perspective, although I guess I could understand from the homeowners'.  Hopefully there is not much of a current on race day.

WOOT!! We'll b looking for you, Tim!!

FYI Tavern folks - I swam there last night.  The current was sick.  I swam upriver for 15 minutes and it took me 3 minutes to get back.  In a pool I can cover 600 meters in 15 minutes (ok, I'm no speed demon - I am a BEGINNER triathlete after all).  I probably moved forward about 200 last night.  So theoretically, I swam 600 meters and the current carried me back 400, which happens to be the length of the course.  So if I'm right, and the current is the same on Sunday, you'll be able to cover the course in 15 minutes simply by treading water and sitting still!

But it did just rain the night before, so it will likely settle down.

Yeah!  Hope I get a chance to finally meet you!

I just swam it twice today. Hardly any current.  This will likely change again before the race.

Regardless of what the current does, or how worked up you may get about the possibilities, the best thing to do if it worries you is to get to the race site early enough to at least look at the river. This is a short enough swim where actually swimmig the entire course beforehand would be a great idea. Or come to the pre-swim Friday at 6pm and we can talk about it and practice.

Currents are generally visible. The current will not be uniform from side to side. There will be a channel where it is stronger somewhere in the middle. It will barely be moving along the banks.

On the bright side, not many people do aquabike, so you've got better odds of placing ;-)

On the bike course, pace yourself going up, the hill is its steepest right before the turnaround.  I think you'll know when you're there.  The steep part is tough, but it's not terribly long.  After that it's a short flat section (maybe a quarter mile?), then you get to turn around and fly!