Kemah Triathlon. Official Thread (Page 7)

Just checked the forecast:

Low:  75

High:  81

Humidity:  79%

Partly cloudy

While I'd like it to be mid-60's, I'll take this!

twomarks

 One concern though is the wind.  Kemah, and that area, is always windy at varying degrees.  Currently, the wind is at 10-15 knots coming from the south blowing roughly north.  That means, if it stays like this we will have a head wind during our outbound ride along highway 146, but the wind will be at our backs on the return ride.

Water temperature is at about 72 degrees.

Hope is stays this way. I have not looked into the weather yet but I rode last night in Houston and it was very windy. Strong headwinds one direction, heavy tailwind the other.

Forecast for Sunday - Winds out of the Southeast @ 10 to 14 Knots.  Water temp is currently around 75 degrees. Water is supposed to be choppy.  

Highs in the mid-80s lows in mid 70s. 

Good point.  From what i understand, the current will be moving to our right as we swim towards the exit.  The buoys will be on our right as well.  Also, low tide for the area is around 6:40 am on Sunday so the tide will slowly be coming in when we are jumping off the paddle boat.

Great race!  Onurleft did a great job.  Thanks Aaron and crew and a big thanks to all the volunteers.

Very well put together race - Thanks Aaron and team!

twomarks

Hi fived you coming out of the water!  I'm sure you had that tunnel vision going.  lol

You looked great!  I volunteered for a few hours that morning.  Wishing every minute that I was in the race this year.   

I'll be back next year Kemah!  Best watch out!

Another top-notch race put on by ONURMARK!  Thanks!!

Speaking of the timing company...I wonder how may people got home and realized they still had their timing chips on their ankle?  nobody was collecting them at the finish so luckily I stumbled on the tent that was collecting them as i was walking out of the food area.  as i was driving out of Kemah I saw at least a dozen people walking to their cars with their chips still on. I told a few of them, but I bet that's going to be a headache sorting it all out today.

oh...I thought it was just the straps that were disposable, cool.  i didn't mind the strap.  it was a little annoying at first, but forgot it was there after about 10min.

Any opinions on the water and wind conditions?

This was my first Olympic and I don't know what those seas were - had to have been at least 2 feet of chop.

The forecast was also for 10 - 12 mph winds and heading out, it sure seemed like a lot more than that.

None of those things are in the control of the RD though - I'll definitely be back next year.

twomarks

As usual, great race again Aaron & Co.  First class all the way.  Watch out, we're starting to expect it.  

Would have been nice to have a little more room in the after race party area, but when you do as good of a job as you guys do, every one wants to be there, so it's going to get crowded, just thought it'd be nice to have a bit more breathing room.

The waves seemed normal to me for an ocean swim.  I expected worse, so was pleasantly surprised.  The wind on the bike was booger.  I expected worse on that too, but since my power is so weak, I wasn't so pleasantly surprised on that one.    The tail wind ROCKED though!!!!!  Last year I noticed some pile up on traffic (car), and this year it looked GREATLY diminished.  I think you may have hit the sweet spot on the bike route as far as car traffic goes.  Much preferred the run course this year to last year.  Don't know why, just liked it better.  I think you had some unregistered volunteers too handing out Ozarka bottled water to the runners.  It's worth noting that the people who live int eh community we run through do a great job supporting the race.  That makes it even more fun, IMO.

It's my favorite race of the year.