TriRock Austin - Olympic Course : Official Thread

See, I was much happier not knowing about the bat guano... Where was that?

(edit) Nevermind, saw your post. Eeeewww.

AFAIK the rationale for the course change was an overgrowth of vegetation in the water west of the start.

As far as bats go, the big problems would be rabies from a BITE (not exposure to guano), and histoplasmosis, but as I understand the histoplasmosis thing it's a fungus that grows in soil, so I don't think there's a big danger since it's getting diluted and washed away in the river. Histoplasma also affects people with weakened immune systems preferentially so the risk to a healthy person is fairly low, but not zero.

Still something worth bringing up to the RD in case it becomes an issue. And in the mean time, here's what to look out for.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/histoplasmosis/DS00517/DSECTION=symptoms

on another swim related note, did anyone get garmin data for thier swim? I executed poorly and swm a good bit extra but I would be curious to know what distance others showedfor the oly course.

thx!

My Garmin shows 2.09 miles on the swim and with 31:24 on the swim I averaged 4 miles an hour!  Needless to say that my Garmin is not really accurate on the swim.  My swim time for the CapTex olympic in May was 28:36.  My swim was about the same in very similar conditions.  Thus, I would suggest that the course was a little long.  I guess that when they changed the course by moving the turn buoys to the other side of Congress Avenue bridge (and leaving the upstream buoys at the previously marked sprint course), they had to stretch it a little to avoid the turn happening right under the bridge.  I would not be surprised if it were 150m longer than a mile.