White Lake Water Temp?

Here you go:

http://www.themarinawhitelake.com/

Currently 71.  That's a whole lot warmer than the 54 for the White Lake Half!!!!

You're welcome!!!

See ya there!

You are in for a real treat.....awesome place to race but you'll feel like you just stepped out of a time machine into the 1950s!

all tuning up for Raleigh. Bring it.

your remark about water temps just makes one less decision for me. I thought that if it was about 75deg I would go without a suit so it would be more like Raleigh which I believe will not be wetsuit legal.

If it i sstill low 70's or even 69  I will be putting the old suit on. Guess we will know more at about 5pm today.

sorta blows.

 I just checked the bib #'s and I am in the open wave even though I changed it to AG over a week ago. Oh well I guess I will be last out of the water in my wave just like at the freeze fest that was WL HIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq08yOneY_0

66 degrees posted today.  Brrrr.

Yup, they should write: This is a triathlon. There is a lake, and some roads to ride your bike on and to run on. It may be 90+ degrees or under 40, but the odds of pleasant weather are minimal. You may be able to surf on the lake or not, but you SHOULD be able to find a beer can or two on the bottom if you swim with your eyes open. The swim may be wetsuit legal, but it may not, but you will likely only know the morning of the race. And maybe not even then. And there is probably going to be a headwind. Both ways.

Is "eppie" a Spambot?

Dont forget...fog ...there may be fog where you cant see past your hand the morning of and swimming into a white abyss is not going to happen. get ready for an all out duo should this condition occur.

I saw photo's of the WL weekend's swim and it got me thinking. If the wind was blowing like that at Kure, then you would of been in trouble. The swim would of been cancelled and many people left disappointed.

Weather is something we all deal with in training or racing, and while having the ideal glassy day with no wind for the swim and bike makes for a really enjoyable day, the inverse of those conditions make for finishing those races even more rewarding in my opinion.

WL throws it all at us, and I have raced it in the likes of the weekend to no wind and so damn hot the roads were melting. And all in the same time frame, the 1st weekend in May. Thats the beauty of WL. Variety.

Hats of to Set Up for not cancelling the swims on both weekends due to the conditions, and I bow to those mighty warriors who suited up and met the challenge head on.

The swim(s) last year at Kure Beach were no walk in the park.  In an ocean swim, you expect waves.  In a lake (and especially White Lake) not so much.

ETA:  After 2013 WL Half, Spring International & Double Sprint as well as 2012 White Lake Sprint, I'm going to go with "like glass" as the exception.

I dont think so. Looked up their other posts and they seem to have intelligence. "eppie" you are now clean.........

White lake was choppy but no where near being something that should have been cancelled. I hated every second of the swim at both WL HIM and thi spast Saturday, but in no way think that cancelling should have even entered any discussion.

I actaully think more Kudo's should be given anybody doing the sprint. After riding the last 4mi on Saturday I thought there i sno way I am doing the sprint and having to ride that backside of White Lake twice. OMG that road is worse than a goat path and I would not care to do a 14mi bike with 6 or so miles being over that thing.

Kure would have been interesting if held on Sat. Here i sa pic from Wrightsville on Sat and Kure/ Carolina i sgenerally pretty much the same .

http://www.wblivesurf.com/dailyphotos.asp?lp=&date=05/04/13&page=2