santa rosa tri

[losdog]

anyone else doing the Santa Rosa Tri in October?

[ScottR]

Im doing it, Did it last year too. My time sucked but it was my first one. I did it without stopping which was my goal. It was fairly difficult because they canceled the swim. In place of the swim you had to run 1 1/2 miles then bike then run again. The wind was blowing steady at 20 mph out of the east which was fun, but for only half of the bike ride. Was easily able to maintain 30 mph Check out tri gulf coast. They meet every Sun morning at the beach and have free coaching.

[losdog]

sorry so late getting back with ya. I'm looking forward to doing it this year. It will be my first one. I'm shooting for the half ironman in April in New Orleans but I want to see how it goes in October.
so last year was a reverse duathlon. Hopefully we can swim this year even though a lot of people don't like the swim portion. I hope I don't need a wetsuit. that would suck because I don't have one. i'll just swim really fast and create massive amounts of heat.
I went to mere mortals 2 weeks ago but no one was there. I found out later that they met at the boardwalk. I'm really just looking for some open water swimming tips and some group pace training so I will try them out again in two weeks. I can't this weekend. I did a bike ride while I was there. no sense in wasting a trip to the beach on a nice, cool Sunday morning.

[ScottR]

The water is still very warm in October. No wet suit required. Im going out of town for a couple of weeks then I'll be at the beach on Sunday's. If you dont know already the UWF Pool is excellent (but crowded).