This is their first year in Corpus Christi, and Corpus Christie's first year with half and full length IM.  It seemed a little disorganized since I didn't get the athlete packet until just a week prior with information on the packet pickup location, athlete dinner location, etc. 

I arrived later Thrusday and drove the course and took photos of the trans. area.  Talked with the staff.  The weatherforcast for Sat. race start was ominous - sever thunderstorms to move through an hour less prior to race start.  Mark, the director, answered all my questions.  Since I was there by myself, Mark even had me list him on the sheet to collect my stuff in the event I could not. 

Friday packet pickup, dinner, and the mandatory meeting went well.  The caterer was 'eh'.  I am not a huge italiant lover, so all the pasta and carbs weren't my thing.  The food did taste good though. 

Everything from my pespective went off without a hitch on Sat.  About the only issue was one of the large Bouys had issues, so they left the smaller one prior to the turn point, that way we could sight the turn.  They then moved the larger bouy to the shorter distance for the open/family race.

The on peave I have is that there was no clock at the finish with displaying the ellapsed time or even the time of day.  I had to goto the scorer table to get my time about an hour or so later.  The first printout had me as 29th, but for some reason, the official results had me at 41st.  no clue why. 

My big was one of the hotels that was a partner (Quality Inn on the beach) had no hot water the entire time I was there.  Gas leak at the street forced them to turn of the gas (for good reason).  Quality Inn made it right and did not charge me for either night I stayed.