Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon
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2008-08-02 5:03 PM |
Expert 808 Columbia, MD | Subject: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon So, who went to the practice swim yesterday and how did it go for you? There sure were a lot of women there - my wave didn't start until 7:30. I've polled a few people who feel that the swim distance was much longer than advertised. Vig's email on Friday said it would be about 800 yards, but virtually everyone I talked to said it took about 10 minutes longer to swim than their 800 yd pool swim. Did anyone wear a Garmin yesterday and get an accurate distance? I biked the race course with a girlfriend afterwards and saw lots of people out there as well. Edited by MelissaE 2008-08-02 5:04 PM |
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2008-08-02 9:18 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Pro 4343 Olney, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon I was there. I was in the last wave. The distance had to be at least 1000m going by my swim time. I guess Vig doesn't really have a clue. Anyone know how they accurately set up a swim course? |
2008-08-06 2:30 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Expert 808 Columbia, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Swim waves are posted. I'm so psyched to be in the Purple wave this year. Right in the middle of the pack and wearing a great color. 2 years ago, I was stuck with Silver and was like "uhhhh .... I don't want silver on my head this young!" FYI, the swim cutoff per the website is 1 hour. Time limit for the whole race is 4.5 hours. |
2008-08-06 2:43 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Master 1678 Olney, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Thanks for posting! I'm in the Orange wave. It looks like I'll be waiting all darn morning for my turn...yuck! Oh well.. I've been lucky to go off in the first and second waves of my last two tris so I'm due for a late start |
2008-08-06 2:46 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Master 1678 Olney, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon There are a lot of us doing this race!! Maybe we should try and have a BT dinner or cookout somewhere on Saturday?? Anyone have any interest in getting together? We could maybe have a potluck picnic or just go out to eat somewhere depending on how many are interested. Edited by vball03umd 2008-08-06 2:50 PM |
2008-08-06 3:11 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Expert 663 Williamsburg, VA | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon I'll be in the green. Usually the older ladies always go last. Glad that I'm in the middle, but that means the fast young girls will swim over me A BT get together would be great! Klynne and I will be getting in from Williamsburg in the afternoon and we are staying in the Hampton Inn and Suites. Not to sure if our families will be with us. IF they're not we can be there. |
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2008-08-07 8:45 AM in reply to: #1578148 |
Veteran 288 Owings, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon I'm "pearl yellow" because I'm registered as an Athena, so I go off an hour after the first wave. Would love to get together! Last year we tried to meet ahead of the race, but it didn't work because we were all trying to get into the park and set up transition, etc. Maybe something afterwards or the day before (after bike dropoff & packet pickup) would work better. Must remember my BT tattoos! Side question - Is anyone doing a ride of the bike course in the next few weeks? I was out of town for the LunaChix preview ride on 7/26 and the dry run on 8/1, and I really need to practice Mt. Albert with my clipless pedals. I may just do the Princeton Ride on Tuesday night. Are there any other group rides that anyone knows about? Thanks! Laurie |
2008-08-07 10:22 AM in reply to: #1578148 |
Expert 808 Columbia, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Pre-Race Dinner Organized Rides Bike Course Update |
2008-08-07 11:00 AM in reply to: #1587606 |
Master 1678 Olney, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon MelissaE - 2008-08-07 11:22 AM Pre-Race Dinner That works for me... Tomato Palace is perfect and should be easy for everyone to get to since it's close to the packet pickup hotel |
2008-08-07 1:22 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Expert 663 Williamsburg, VA | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Like I said before, we may have families with us so dinner sounds great if its just the 2 of us. And since we are coming from VA then we'll just go with whatever everyone likes. This sounds fun!!! |
2008-08-07 7:32 PM in reply to: #1587325 |
Member 22 Brookeville, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Side question - Is anyone doing a ride of the bike course in the next few weeks? I was out of town for the LunaChix preview ride on 7/26 and the dry run on 8/1, and I really need to practice Mt. Albert with my clipless pedals. I may just do the Princeton Ride on Tuesday night. Are there any other group rides that anyone knows about? Thanks! Laurie Lots of folks do the ride on weekend mornings. They tend to start around 6:00 which is nice, 'cause it beats the heat and the traffic is minimal. I'm doing it alone Saturday morning around 7:00, but you're never *really* alone, given that people are always in front of/behind you and taking breaks at the school or the stoplight at Homewood and Rt. 108. |
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2008-08-08 1:12 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Cycling Guru 15134 Fulton, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon As long as we don't have something going on at home I was planning on volunteering to cheer and support all you ladies along! |
2008-08-08 2:38 PM in reply to: #1590414 |
Master 1678 Olney, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Daremo - 2008-08-08 2:12 PM As long as we don't have something going on at home I was planning on volunteering to cheer and support all you ladies along! Sweet!! Thanks for the support If you happen to see me out there, please yell at me to get my butt movin'. |
2008-08-09 10:44 AM in reply to: #1578148 |
Member 33 | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon I rode the route this morning and folly quarter was awful. I think they are going to be resurfacing parts of the road and have put gouges in the road which are a pain to go over. I tried to avoid them as much as possible but there were some that went all the way across the road. So be careful out there. Hopefully they will have it done soon. |
2008-08-09 2:08 PM in reply to: #1592025 |
Expert 808 Columbia, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon mlm2902 - 2008-08-09 11:44 AM I rode the route this morning and folly quarter was awful. I think they are going to be resurfacing parts of the road and have put gouges in the road which are a pain to go over. I tried to avoid them as much as possible but there were some that went all the way across the road. So be careful out there. Hopefully they will have it done soon. Folly Quarter Rd is an absolute mess right now. Looks like the've milled sections of the road from the traffic circle all the way to the turnaround point, on both sides of the road. I drove it first this morning to see how bad it was and then decided to stay off that road, so this morning, my girlfriend and I just started at Centennial and followed the course up to the top of Mt. Albert, and then we turned around and went back down Mt. Albert and back up again for a hill repeat, through the neighborhood to Folly Quarter, and then turned around and backtracked the course to Centennial. Wound up being about 16 miles or so, so shorter than the race course, but not substantially. No word on when the re-paving will be done, but I'd recommend staying off Folly Quarter until it's done. The gouges are pretty deep. |
2008-08-09 7:40 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Member 22 Brookeville, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Aaaaaaahhh! Folly Quarter was a nightmare! I kept cussing to myself--people going past in cars were probably wondering why the grumpy-looking girl-biker was talking to herself. I think I bent my rim!! Careful out there, girls. Did the run for the first time--that Gatorade Hill is no joke. Seriously, it seems as though heading up and back from the tennis courts is uphill both ways...is that scientifically possible? |
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2008-08-10 9:41 AM in reply to: #1578148 |
Veteran 128 | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon I did the course yesterday and thought I was going to crash. Actually, a guy was in front of me when we were going down one of the hills and hit one of those deep ruts and lost his water bottle do to the impact. That road is dangerous someone could get hurt so everyone be very careful out there. |
2008-08-10 10:16 AM in reply to: #1578148 |
Expert 808 Columbia, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon I emailed the Howard County Dept of Public Works this morning asking what the timeline was for the re-paving project. I'll post again here if I hear back from them. In the meantime, I would advise staying off that section of Folly Quarter Road completely. It's too dangerous for you, your bike and other drivers. |
2008-08-10 5:37 PM in reply to: #1592699 |
Member 22 Brookeville, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon I emailed the Howard County Dept of Public Works this morning asking what the timeline was for the re-paving project. Thank you for doing that! I thought about it but didn't quite know who to email.... |
2008-08-11 9:51 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Expert 808 Columbia, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon An update today from the IronGirl Columbia website: Road Work being done on Iron Girl and Columbia Triathlon Bike CourseMonday, 11 Aug 2008
Folly Quarter Road (from the circle on Ten Oaks to the circle on Homewood Road) is currently having paving work completed. The Princeton Sports ride will be cancelled on Tuesday, August 12th due to this construction. Cyclists -- PLEASE try to avoid this area as it is unsafe for bikes. Public Works has told us that the roads will be finished this week. |
2008-08-12 7:53 AM in reply to: #1578148 |
Veteran 288 Owings, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Thanks so much for posting this, Melissa. You just saved me an hour+ drive up to Columbia for the ride tonight! I hope they finish paving by this weekend - I really need to ride the course. |
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2008-08-12 8:56 AM in reply to: #1578148 |
Expert 808 Columbia, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon I received a response from Howard County Dept of Public Works this morning regarding the repaving project and want to post it here (and I also posted it in a separate thread) so that everyone sees it:
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2008-08-16 3:39 PM in reply to: #1578148 |
Member 22 Brookeville, MD | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon Course was smooth today. The newly paved chunks are a little bumpy getting "on" and "off", but a big improvement from the unpaved trenches last week! |
2008-08-17 3:22 PM in reply to: #1587325 |
Expert 642 | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon klgray - 2008-08-07 9:45 AM I'm "pearl yellow" because I'm registered as an Athena, so I go off an hour after the first wave. Would love to get together! Last year we tried to meet ahead of the race, but it didn't work because we were all trying to get into the park and set up transition, etc. Maybe something afterwards or the day before (after bike dropoff & packet pickup) would work better. Must remember my BT tattoos! Side question - Is anyone doing a ride of the bike course in the next few weeks? I was out of town for the LunaChix preview ride on 7/26 and the dry run on 8/1, and I really need to practice Mt. Albert with my clipless pedals. I may just do the Princeton Ride on Tuesday night. Are there any other group rides that anyone knows about? Thanks! Laurie I'm pearl yellow too - that's gonna look horrid on my ghostly white skin! I just found this thread so I'm kinda bummed to not have gotten to know you ladies sooner. I live in Sterling so I'll be going up on Saturday for packet pickup & bike check-in. I'll be getting up super early on Sunday...and then waiting around for my wave...and hour later! |
2008-08-19 9:04 AM in reply to: #1578148 |
Expert 663 Williamsburg, VA | Subject: RE: Iron Girl Columbia Women's Triathlon So do we have any plans yet to meet for a dinner?? I will be getting in on Sat afternoon and staying at the Hampton Inn in Columbia. |
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