Subject: RE: Bike routes that mesh with OWS at Lanier or Redtop Mrs. brown_dog_us - 2011-08-23 12:30 PM Have you considered Lake Chatuge? The Clay County Recreation center (just over the border into NC) has a nice beach with an island you can swim around and the Beast of the East bike course starts there and is marked on the road. You can find a cue sheet on the Smokey Mtns Triathlon Club website: http://thebeastoftheeast.net/ I rode this course after the 5k swim race in May and it was lovely. 100% x2 on this! I did swim/bike here several times this summer while training for IMLP - I would swim straight out to the island, then do laps around and around, then back in - swim capped garmin says out and back with 5 loops around the island is about 4500 yards. Then two loops of the bike course - lets you pick bottles up at the car - and it is easy enough to cut the second loop short. I never had a long run to do afterwards - usually only 15 minutes, but you can run a good bit further out across the dam if you want - it is pretty flat going until you drop down that monster hill on the back side of the dam. I haven't ridden at Mary Alice Park, but did swim there about once a week - I would swim out to the no wake buoys, swim from buoy to buoy, then back in to the swim area buoys and swim that jiggy-jaggy line (good sighting practice). If I remember correctly that measured right at 700 yards. The last time I was there however one of the no wake buoys had gone missing... |