*official* White Lake HIM 5/7 (Page 2)

I have been checking that website.  But the 69 degrees temp is from the 23rd of April.  They have not updated the temp since then. I was wondering if anyone knew a more current temp.

They update the water temp every Saturday on that website.

just wear the orange shoes

Instead of stuffing myself in a oven for 5.5 hours again this year, I will be in Caribbean drinking my keister off with Mickey and Minnie Mouse. 

Good luck to those who read the race reports and STILL signed up anyways!!!  ;-)

In some races, including Ironman brand races, you MUST put your bike in transition the day before.  I have not done a race that required this.  At White Lake, the only advantage would be not having to worry about placing you bike in transition on race morning (not really a big deal, IMHO).  I am not going to put my bike in transition on Friday.  The wording "police will be monitoring transition" does not sit well with me.  It makes it seem like there will be times when transition is not guarded.  Just my 2 cents.

Alan

As Bob said, they cancelled the swim due to fog.  As soon as they made the call, the lifeguards left then the fog lifted.  Benji with Set Up Events is a good guy, and does everything he can for the racers.  Just an unfortunate set of circumstances today.  No swim got me off my mental game and my bike time was negated by cramping on the run.  Just a bad day all around for me.  Maybe I'll try again next year........

Tough to have the swim cancelled...kinda throws you off. Sorry to hear your day didn't go well. But as you said, at least there are other races!

You know I realize you can't control the weather but you made bad call after bad call Saturday.So Don't act like you couldn't have handled things differently.

1- there should be a policy in affect for inclemente weather like we will delay the race 1-2 hours then make a call
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You then say we will make a call on the swim at 8am then you don't wait till 8 to make that call if you did you wouldn't have cancelled the swim.

To top it off you let the water safety Kayaks go? who's bright idea was that that?

Please don't act like you were without blame on this, when people admit there mistakes I can live with it and move on, but it pisses me off saying this was all about safety, as we lined up to run to our bikes you could see every bouy on the swim course.

I can't make it this weekend and might have went back in 2012 but with no discount and this half explaination I won't be back and will avoid setup events if possible.

And why you lie to people to tell them the bike course has ecellent roads...most folks I talked to thought they were awful, and I am still looking for the shaded area's on the run....man just tell the truth.

 my reply to the e-mail sent to me

I agree.....I thought it was chaos.  I raced it.  In no way should the safety people left until the race actually started.  It was pure BS in my book.  I picked this event for the swim.  And then the whole mess with you can't wear your helmets for run into t1, and then wait, you can.  All the back and forth.  So disorganized.

And I agree on the roads.  Their idea of excellent paved roads and mine are completely different.

Here's the policy direct from the Set Up website:

The event will be postponed until 7:45 AM in hopes the inclement weather will pass.
If inclement weather does not pass by 7:45 AM, the event will be changed to a duathlon format.

Given that.......

We were all disappointed that the swim was cancelled.  I believe the call to cancel the swim came at about 7:45 or 7:50, so they did adhere to the policy.  It was a freak of nature that the fog lifted in a matter of minutes.  The duathlon format caused me a mental blow that I never recovered from and I had a terrible race.  As far as letting the lifeguards go, that is a no brainer.........no swim = no need for lifeguards. (And I agree the call being made before 8 after being told 8 was even more disappointing).

Set Up Events (Benji Jones included) do a wonderful job producing events.  Do not let this experience ruin possible future positive experience.  Saturday was a very difficult set of circumstances to deal with.

As far as the roads are concerned......they are pretty much terrible.  Anyone who says differently is crazy.

Jason "Alan" Parker (White Lake Half I bib #37)