RiverWinds Triathlon : Official Thread

I'm in!!!! This will be my first time at this event and my first pool swim tri....My sister did it last year so I know the swim format and the run course I hope to scope out the bike course in a week or 2. 

I'm in!  This will be my 3rd year at this event.  Well run.  Good times!

Fingers crossed for a little warmer temps and no wind!

not going to mind the wind too much, but it would be nice if the warm weather showed its face...

wow, thats funny, i did the same thing. I was there about 10:30am.  Myself and a friend of mine that are both doing the race decided to scout it out.  Yes, it was flat, yes it was very windy and yes it was fast.  I am very new to biking, but I was able to stay on the big ring for about 90% of the bike course and on one of the small down hill portions I hit 27mph.  Probably the fastest I have gone on the bike so far and finished the route in just over 35 mins.  I was very surprised.   I loved it.  I also set a new PR for my 3 mile run time coming off the bike.    From what I know, the entrance road is only "part" of the run course.  You actually take off from the transition area and run AWAY from the entrance road and back towards the Delaware river.  There is a trail that goes into the woods there.  You take that trail for just over a mile and then go thru the parking lot and then out onto the area where the entrance road is and then you go out probably just under 1 mile distance and then turn around.  My friend did the race before and thats the path he showed me and thats what shows up online at the riverwinds site.   Im getting pretty excited about my first race there.  Should be a ton of fun

I just turned 40 in March so I guess its the 40-44 male?  This is my first tri ever and although I was a runner for a couple of years, I never competitively biked and never swam correctly until mid January a few months ago.  Training has been going great though.  Really excited for this race.  Good Luck there Jorgito22, you should definitely like the bike course.  Very slight up hills at a few spots, but overall, pretty much flat although very windy coming right off the Delaware river. 

This was my Tri race last year.  I'm looking forward to doing much better.  I lost 20 lbs. since then.

Something like that is usually at the discretion of the race director.  The music is more about having headphones on.  If you are using it without headphones, they'd probably be OK with it.

Thanks for the info.  Yea, I DO NOT wear any headphones with it.  I just keep it on my arm.  I found an email address on the site where I signed up for the race.  Not sure if it is the right people to contact about it, but I sent them an email and asked if they could answer it for me or point me in the right direction.   I really hope its allowed.  I really have a tendancy to go out fast off of the bike and I don't want to burn myself out early.  I am very new to doing bricks, so I don't have a good feel yet of pacing off the bike and I need that app

Wow, they responded back quickly:

Richard, you can absolutely use your device to track your run distance/time! Looking forward to seeing you race day!!!!

Jen Parker

Race Director

Yeah, Jen is  cool, so I'm not surprised she got back to you right away.

Glad to hear it.

I just got the email with turn by turn directions for the bike course.  Crap!  In my scouting rides, I was riding the course in reverse (1st time doing this race)....wtf!  Oh well...guess that hill at mile 8 will turn into a downhill at mile 3.  LOL!!

In all seriousness...why in the heck is this bike course laid out with many LEFT turns...which forces bikes riders to cross the traffic lanes (assuming we won't be riding on the left of the roadway).  

Anyway...I'll hit it hard but it just seems illogical to me.  All it takes is someone not paying attention and you have a bad situation.

I didn't even think about it that way with all the lefts until you said something.  Yea, that makes more sense. 

On the lighter side........... Weather.com is showing 69 degress and sunny with a 9mph wind.   Sounds like a great day.  I know the wind will be much stronger than 9mph riding near the river, but still, all in all it sounds like we are going to have a great race day.  Enjoy it everybody

it may be a bit cooler at the start of the bike,  What does everyone plan on wearing if it is cooler. I'm thinking some gloves and than normal tri gear, and just man it up if its too cold or hot...haha

Jen the race director over at riverwinds is fantastic.  I updated my swim time about a month ago but since I am new to swimming, I am making gains each time I hit the pool.  I finally had my last trial run this morning and crushed my old time.  I went to update my time but they had already shut down the ability to edit my time.  My previous time was 3:58 and my new time is 3:35.  Thats a pretty big difference and I didn't want to cause any problems with catching up to people who started in front of me, so I asked her if she could change it for me and she did it no problem. 

Also, I don't think they handed out bib numbers yet, but because of this issue I found out mine.  She said that I am listed as bib 100 but I will now start behind bib number 82 for the swim portion.  Guess my time moved me up 18 slots.   Anyways, number 100 is an easy number to remember.  If you happen to see me on race day, feel free to come over and let me know your from BT.  I have a few people going with me, but could always use somebody else to talk to, to calm down my nerves

Yep...I don't see it getting warmer than 48 or so for the duration of the race.

Not having done a chilly weather race before (mostly summer, hot, races) I am a bit flip-floppy on what to wear.

This is my plan (feel free to comment and/or advise):

Swim:  tri shorts & sleeveless compression top

Bike:  Same.  I may put on arm warmers and/or a nylon shell pullover.

Run:  Same...but without arm warmers/shell if I've decided on those.

Race vets...feel free to comment.

Thanks.