Drove the race course which helped a little to see the hills and terrain on the bike course but didn t matter for the run course because they changed the course at the last minute putting it on the same course as the bikes.
Hits marble falls bike course.
Labeled areas with stools and a box to store your gear.
Hits for all the little things that folks don t like the one thing they do well is set up a transition.
At the bike turn around i was expecting a turn around to come but didn t know if it was here or in 2 3 more miles and the one guy at the turn around with one cone wasn t making any signals to the riders to indicate this was the turn around or where to make our turns.
Hits puts on a good race a little.
Karen tamson hits half distance winner in naples.
But in many ways it was completely different.
Seemed like a waste of time to me.
Karen tamson hits half distance winner in naples.
After leaving the transition area at lakeside park the bike course passed over the colorado river the one dammed up to make lake marble falls.
They provided a little stool to i didn t use it for anything.
This was a half iron distance triathlon which is the same as the ironman texas 70 3 triathlon that i did back on april 1st.
A 1 01 mile long category 5 climb.
Run the best word to describe how i felt when starti.
Some of the bike course routing was confusing too.
Hits is filling a void with both timing and its.
And hits has made it fun again.
Marble falls half iron course triathlon1 2 ironman view member s race log view other race reports.
If you haven t already read parts 1 and 2 of the hits marble falls half ironman blog start here.
Now that is doing it right.
So it was essentially the same basic type of race with the same distances.
Pre race swim t1.
They remind us all why we love to swim bike and run.
Just after crossing the river at only 0 51 miles in i encountered the first and most significant hill on the whole route.