St. A's Weekend BT Activities?? (Page 5)

here you go. 

 the Escape from Ft. Desoto was this weekend and was wetsuit legal.

http://www.baynews9.com/MarineForecast.html

Swim Waves have been posted.

http://satriathlon.com/

I'm finally starting to get excited for this race weekend!  We are coming over friday, daughter races on saturday (she thinks she can win her age group ) and then we are staying over on sunday for some post racing celebration.   Should be a fun, fun weekend!! 

yes, but Ft DeSoto is around the bend a good ways from where we will be swimming for ST A's.  

We have a cold snap right now that should keep the water cool. 

I'm hoping for a wetsuit swim myself.  The water at IMAZ was chilly but once I got in and swam a while I was almost hot.  I'd rather have a chilly condition so we can all get more buoyant!  

OK, peeps...here's my executive decision on dinner.  Carrabba's.  I can't get thru to BanBu...they may have already folded.  I keep getting a fast busy.  If anyone else wants to try, feel free.  But I'm going with Carrabba's.  I'll update our list this week.  Please post here if you haven't already and would like to come.  Or would like to cancel.  12 days to go til race day!!

Yay! Getting excited.

I wonder how many ppl we have coming to the dinner this year? Seems to get bigger and bigger every year.

I am so psyched to watch the Meek n Might folks - Mimi's daughter, Sue's dad, etc., as well as everyone else on Sunday.

We need to get a participant list going for both races so I know who to cheer for!

I go off at 7:10 again this year.  Make sure you are there bright and early so that you and Wendi can squeeze me into my wetsuit.

I started a new thread off the top of my head there ya go.

I am all for wetsuit stripping for tri boys. You can count on me!

Jeff   thanks so much for organizing   A suggestion is what we did in Austin for Longhorn was the restaurant let us order ahead of time sowe just walked in and got served

Good question...I am afraid to even call Carrabba's and tell them we have XX people coming cuz they might be scared or tell me "sorry we can't do that".  I was almost thinking we should just show up and be seated in groups of 6 or 7 or whatever.  Just tell them at the door we'd like to have tables as close together as possible. 

What do you guys think?  Should I call and say "hi I am beginner triathlete dot com and we'd like to...what?  You have heard of us?  We're a curse?"  LOL

Seriously though...should I call and make a res for like 50 or should we all just start arriving around 445 and just make groups and sit down?  I'm beginning to think the latter is more doable than the former at this point.

Hybrid solution.

Call them and let them know that we are going to have about 50 people coming.  If they have a large section of the restaurant that they could situate us in would be great.  We don't have to all sit in one or two huge groups (like we did at Longhorn) but would prefer to have a bunch of tables of 8 or so people per table.  That way it gives us flexibility to get up and mingle from table to table.

I think it would be more disastrous to the staff to show up as a bunch of large parties.  This way, they can plan for us.