Tri! Ballantyne : Official Thread (Page 2)

Hi Timothy, you are number 412 and start at 9:00:15 and you are not last!  My swim time is set at 1:24 or 84 seconds instead of 124 seconds.  Obviously I can't swim that fast with a motor attached to me.  I'll see if I can't be put at the end or I will just become a cheerleader for the rest of you.  I don't want to be holding everyone up in the pool, that would be stupid.

Bob

Hi Bob, my daughter is starting 57,  I'll tell her to be nice as she passes you. 

I'm doing the family relay with my kids!

-Steve

I'm #94.  Hope to see you guys Saturday morning.  If you see me before I see you please say hello!

Based on their frequent "You should check your swim times every day to make sure everything is okay!" notices I'm guessing they'd just tell you that you should have checked what they had for you.

And that's what frustrates me, because I've tried half a dozen times to figure out HOW to verify my swim time and I can't figure it out. There's some 'how to' page I can usually get to that says something about going to the registration screen...but when I go there it just tells me, "You're already registered for this event."  And when I've sent an e-mail asking them about it, all I got back was, "The directions are online.  Just tell me what time you want and I'll change it."

Sorry for the hijack.  There's a decent chance there's a obvious button somewhere and I've just never managed to find it.

Anyway, Bob, do whatever you think appropriate.  If you decide to wait, hope it goes well, and sorry you won't have the official time you deserve. 

I'll be darned.  So I clicked login on SETUP, entered credentials, and immediately there was the race & submitted time.  I knew it had to be something stupid I was missing.  I kept reading about checking your swim time and clicking on registration to edit it, but when I clicked registration on the event pages that wasn't doing it.

Oh, well...at least now I know for next time.  Maybe Setup should add something along the lines of, "Step 1: Log into your Setup account," for the obvious-impaired like me.

And thanks!

Off to Charlotte this morning.  We're staying at the Courtyard in Ballantyne just off Johnson Road.  I expect to be at TrySports around 4:30PM.  Please say "Hi" if you see me.  My wife has friends in the area and that's why I do this race.  She gets to shop and I get to race.  Win-win!

Bob

Thanks Patrick, btw all is well with my swim time.  The woman representative of SETUP Events stuck me in during a break in the action so I don't have to go last.  I still keep my number 55 which I will wear proudly and still rack my bike in slot 55.  By the time I go to get my bike everyone else in that rack will probably be finished with the race.  Nice meeting Timothy at Trysports tonight, hope to meet more of you tomorrow.

Bob - Look for me in transition spot #55 

Nice meeting everyone today, hope you enjoyed it.  The swim was a typical pool swim, the bike went great until the Marvin Road hill and the run was too hot!  It's the White Lake International next for me.  See you around the circuit!

Bob

Well, got my first tri in the books, and I am sure there will be more in the future.  I had a lot of fun, and I am happy with my time.  At least I finished without drowning or falling of my bike.  Not sure when my next tri will be (definitely will do this again next year), but I am currently looking at the Thunder Road Marathon in November.

It was nice to meet you too, Bob.  Thanks for the race tips and sticking around to see me finish.  Felt like I had my dad there cheering me on.  You definitely helped keep my nerves calm.

I'll post my race report later tonight or tomorrow.

Good job, everyone. 

Swim was fairly straight-forward, except for the "white whale" swimming on his back (!)

Bike course is pretty hilly, esp at the end of Marvin.  My quads were burning pretty much the whole time.  Lots of volunteers and PoPo on the course so that made it nice and smooth.  It was amusing to watch regular Saturday morning cyclists going the other way on the course, as we eye-balled each other.

Run was hot, no doubt.  I couldn't find a race gear so I ran a tempo pace and just hung on.  Lots of folks from our USA-Fit running group there to cheer us on, so that helped tremendously.