Morton Plant Mease Triathlon

You'll do fine...you've got plenty of time to train for it!  Sand running is easier than you think.  Key is to run as flat footed as possible and bound off your knees instead of planting your foot on the ground and pushing off with your toes.  Keeps your toes from digging in the sand and slowing you down.  I used to run sand alot in HS...that's where I learned that strategy and it really does work.  Allowed me to pass a bunch of people at Escape from Fort DeSoto in that 2 mile sand run at the end. 

I'm more excited than anything else.....for now. I've read some about running in sand recently and have some training for it planned. I just learned today that I'll have to train harder on the swim than expected.

I thought I heard before to take pool distance and add 20% to equal and OWS of the same distance.

Either way, I'm not ready yet, but I will be.

I don't doubt you one bit. I just need to get some confidence in my distance and breathing before my first OWS. Which will be soon.  Also during an OWS (training) is the distance just estimated? I also need to get over the taste of sea water, I guess that will just come with experience.

Yup, get used to it.  You'll be doing a lot of inadvertent seawater drinking no matter how good a swimmer you are! 

Good idea.  We'll definitely do that.  You know me and the OWS's...I love 'em!

I don't have a list of times, but if you wanna stop by there, that'd be awesome!

NO WAY!!!! Your not leaving me out of an extra swim. I'll be there too. I'm thinking of grabbing a  hotel room nearby. That way I'm not traveling back and forth so much, and my family can sleep in a little. I'm guessing TA will open early on Sunday as opposed to sometime Saturday.

I'm was expecting an AM OWS, now I'm looking forward to a PM OWS too. I need to drink as much salt water as I can to be ready for MPM.

coach matt is having an OWS workout Clearwater Pier 60, this Saturday.   

I'm too busy with Scout stuff that day. 

yep, there's maps.  here:

http://www.mpmhealth.com/body.cfm?id=778

the RD assured me we will not be "walking" over the bridge gratings like they did at Sand Key a few months ago.  There was construction being done on those bridges and none on the 3 bridges no this course.  One of them I know doesnt even have grating.   But, still, it's a hill and I suck on 'em.