Motivation Man, June 2nd, West Palm Beach

I'm registered for this race, 70.3. It is going to be hot-hot-hot.

Wow. Intracoastal swim. 

The mayor of Lake Worth used to do a swim across the intracoastal to raise awareness of how dirty it was. One year he got an infection and the next year did the swim in some kind of isolation suit.

I think it has improved the last few years though, with the stormwater cleanliness programs in LW and WPB, and I see people water skiing all the time with no apparent problems.

June is too hot for me to do an Oly, but good luck to everyone else!

My boss said the same thing.  But I'm reasonably sure the race organizers and WPB City people will make sure to put some restrictions on the outflow in the week leading up to the race. 

For the IC to be that dirty, they must be dumping some pretty disgusting stuff.  There's tidal inflows and outflows all day long, so it should clean up pretty quickly if they stop dumping.

I'll email the race directors to ask about this. 

I did it. We were lucky with the weather I think.

Whoever posted about the water was right. It was kind of gross. I had a black smear on my face that was apparently from oil/gasoline in the water. GROSS! Of course, I didn't know until the run where I saw a friend who said, "what is that black stuff on your face?"

So, for a first time race. Not too bad. I took the scenic route on the swim due to the total lack of buoys so it took forever. The bike course seemed well protected from maniac Palm Beach drivers :-) and there was lots of ice on the hotter than hades run course. I would have paid for a port-a-potty or a semi-private bush on the run course :-)

They ran out of medals pretty much right away so that was annoying.

But if I do it again I'll take the short course. Too hot in June for a race this long. I actually don't think I want to do another intracoastal swim but we'll see - never say never.