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2007-01-10 5:22 PM
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Early '80s (81?) Bolder Boulder on a Memorial Day in Boulder, CO where we had to wait for the elite to finish before the citizens race started. The weather was fine...then it started raining...and then SNOWING and in true Colorado fashion...it cleared up again, but we were still cold and wet.

I think it was referred to as the Colder Boulder that year.


2007-01-10 6:09 PM
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The year was 1826... oh wait. I was in 10th grade, 1985 Kentucky state HS XC championships in Oct. It snowed like 2 inches during the race and was cold.....
2007-01-10 6:12 PM
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I've done a few rainy races, but I remember a race last year where it was 30C at the start of the race and 40C by the time we were on the run.  That was not fun!
2007-01-11 2:00 AM
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It cleared up in time, but the day before my first tri last year it snowed a bunch. Race organizers kept us all on standby until just before the event was to start to call it a go. It was sure cold, but at least we were dry(ish)!


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2007-01-11 6:14 AM
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I don't mind rain that much but heat....that's another story.  Hood to Coast Relay, sometime in the late 90's:  96 degrees at 5000' elevation at the start line and by the time I did my first run later, down at Sandy, OR; it was a 7 miler and the temp was 102-103 when I started.  Heard later that it got hotter after that.  Needless to say, I was NOT a happy camper but the end of that 7 miles.

Oh...and then there was IMCDA this summer.  97-98 degrees at the hottest that day with wind gusts to 20mph for a bit in the early afternoon.  Hated that. 

2007-01-11 1:22 PM
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Crazy hot after a very cool and wet spring. I've never seen so many people walking or lying down on the run.
Rain makes me feel tough. You gotta be rugged to race in bad weather.


2007-01-11 1:28 PM
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I did a rainy mountain bike race back in 1994. The course was mainly red clay. Everything was fine as long as it was actually raining, but when it stopped and the clay began to dry a bit, it got sticky, really sticky. I remember having to stop and scoop mud out of my chain stays so that the rear wheel could actually turn. Shifting was completely impossible because mud caked up around the cassette.

I have always said that it was really a wheelbarrow race.

2007-01-11 7:10 PM
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Welshy, that trail run DOES look fun. I wanna be that woman whose muscles are popping out through the mud.

I'm also racing Houston, just the half, and to date am going with the optimist's forecast which says that it will still be in the 50's in the morning, before the freezing thunderstorm comes pounding into town in the afternoon.

Usually what we face in Texas is heat, heat, and more heat. For me, BOP in a tri typically means running in 90-plus degree heat (with or without humidity, depending on the part of Texas) with the sun beating down from directly overhead.  I have trained in temps as high as 106.  Running in the cold makes me faster!



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2007-01-11 7:15 PM
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I did the Spirit of Racine Half IM, and yes, the heat, humidity and wind were wicked, but nothing compared to IMWI 2006. I ended up getting hypothermia on the bike, and basically just fell off of my bike, frozen as I crossed the finish line. Couldn't even start the run. Just brutal.......
2007-01-11 9:29 PM
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Colomingle - 2007-01-10 2:36 PM

Steamboat Springs, CO Oly - It was 37F at the start of the swim, in August. The bike warmed up to 40F.  I had to no jacket, no gloves, no pants. It was cold...bitter cold.

 



Does the water ever warm up in Steamboat? I did the Fat Tire Tri (Sprint off-road) in Ft. Collins this past August when it was 55F and raining. Oddly, and thankfully, the water in the lake felt very warm. The ground wasn't muddy, but it was just wet enough so that clumps of mud stuck to my tires. My mountain bike is old and heavy as it is; the mud made it feel even heavier, and the course, although advertised as non-technical, was pretty tough. I suppose I can't complain too much, but this was my first tri - baptism by fire.

The way you deal with it is just keep saying to yourself, "Get through this and the next one will feel so much easier."

2007-01-12 1:58 AM
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There's a few in here that definitely top mine. My very first event ever was the Texas Motor Speedway F-1 Duathlon last year. It was about 45-50 degrees, raining, and 20+ mph winds. There was no way to really warm up, no way to avoid the rain(though it mercifully stopped during the majority of the race), and the area around TMS is completely flat with nothing to break up the wind at all. For a total newbie, it was more than a little intimidating. JeepFleeb was there, though I'm sure he's seen worse than that. :p I do have to give my gf credit, she was there for the whole thing and even took some pictures (including this gem):



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2007-01-12 5:18 AM
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Great Floridian Iron Distance 2006. My first Iroman race. little or no breeze at all. 96 degrees with a heat index of 106! about 25% DNF rate but i was not one of them. 14:37:26. enjoyed every seond of a brutal day.
2007-01-12 8:48 AM
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JBrashear - 2007-01-12 1:58 AM There's a few in here that definitely top mine. My very first event ever was the Texas Motor Speedway F-1 Duathlon last year. It was about 45-50 degrees, raining, and 20+ mph winds. There was no way to really warm up, no way to avoid the rain(though it mercifully stopped during the majority of the race), and the area around TMS is completely flat with nothing to break up the wind at all. For a total newbie, it was more than a little intimidating. JeepFleeb was there, though I'm sure he's seen worse than that. :p I do have to give my gf credit, she was there for the whole thing and even took some pictures (including this gem):

Yeah, TMS was pretty fun. It was my first race in aerobars, so I was very nervous on the bike.

I had a 10K last year that was in the 40s with heavy wind and a downpour. The course was on a city running trail that had a big dip in it. Couldn't go around it, couldn't jump over it. Just had to go right through it. Probably 6 inches deep. Nice. And it was an out and back, so you got to do it twice. Bonus! To make matters worse, I wore a long sleeve cotton sweatshirt, so by the end of the race it added 20 extra pounds for me to carry.

On the flipside, Hotter n Hell was pretty dang hot last year. The closed off the Hell's Gate checkpoint 90 minute early, so we didn't even get to do the full century. When we got to the car, the temp was 113. That's hot.

2007-01-12 8:50 AM
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Florida Challenge HIM 2005. Aside from hot & humid, there was an approaching hurricane, Wilma, that disrupted the event leaving the start in question til that Friday evening. As a result, many volunteers bailed & aid stations went unmanned...(a real pain in the A#$ for the Great Floridian IM athletes)
2007-01-12 10:32 AM
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Mooseman was pretty wet last season. Though we who did the Oly on day one really tore up the transition area for the poor HIM folks on day two!!





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2007-01-12 11:49 AM
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Square Lake Half in Stillwater, MN in 2006. Same day as Ironman Wisc. Pretty much the same weather.


2007-01-12 11:52 AM
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Donmck and I did the Callaway Garden marathon (I did the half - it was two loops) last year.  It was raining so hard that the water was dripping off the bill of my baseball hat I was wearing.  I guess about an hour or so into the race the rain let up a little.  We were running along and Don looks down and he had poofs of soap suds on the knees of his sweatpants!  Hahaha!  I guess there was soap residue left in his pants from when he had washed them. 

Seriously though, I got the worst blisters on my feet from running in wet socks.  I am not sure what you can do to avoid this in raining weather.

Kelly

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