Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon
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Overall Rank = 53/136
Age Group = 45-49
Age Group Rank = 6/21
Arrived Friday and had a LONG day of packet pick up, mandatory meeting, lunch with friends, hotel check-in, and bike drop off. Got to view a beautiful sunset behind the hotel with the Battleship silhouette.
Got up at 4:00 a.m. and had coffee and a half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Rode the trolley to T1, got body marked, and dropped off both special needs bags. Checked tire pressure, then decided to put wetsuits halfway on. We were not allowed a morning bag, so whatever we took to Swim Start was to be donated to Goodwill. I sprayed myself down with TriGlide and pulled my wetsuit halfway up, then put my TrGlide in my T1 bag for safekeeping. I had old sweatpants, sweatshirt, socks, and flip flops that I intended to leave in the Goodwill truck at the swim start.
On the way back out of T1, we found BTer Daryn and stopped to chat about race strategy. Then we bumped into Dale and John, two guys I swim with at the YMCA. They were all doing the Half. We decided to go ahead and take the trolley to swim start and relax there.
Ready to take the trolley to T1!
Once at the swim start, we used the porta-potties then just hung out and chatted with other athletes. As it got closer to swim start, I was wishing I knew other people doing the Full. I knew there was one guy from Raleigh, Brad and a BTer, Tim. I didn't think I had a chance of finding either but as I meandered around I happened upon Tim! I only knew who he was because his race numbers were showing. We introduced and chatted for a moment before everyone started walking the 1/4 mile to the end of the peninsula to the swim start (which looked like March of the Penguins).
There we were able to get into the water to get acclimated. I filled my wetsuit with water and checked my goggles, then it was time to line up. They told us to look up into the sky as they played the national anthem. Up above there appeared to be a helicopter with red, white, and blue lights on it! Wow, COOL! At least I "thought" it was a helicopter until is came down and it was nothing more than a remote controlled hover craft of some sort!