Riding the 70.3 Course

Traffic is fairly light. It wouldn't surprise me to see a higher volume of cars in certain areas, but it is still rural. The shoulder width is decent and during this time of the year as the race approaches you see a fair number of other people out there biking, which hopefully implies that the local folk have been accustomed to seeing triathletes out there biking and give us a little room. You'll encounter most of the cars between dam hill and the "iron cross" and again it's not that bad. Once you make your left there at the iron cross intersection the traffic becomes much more sparse.

Between racing and training I've biked the course about 10 times. There are definitely cars out there driving but I've personally never felt unsafe or encountered any bad or rude drivers. Hopefully, others have had the same experience.

That's good to hear, thanks for the info.

As an FYI, the Leavenworth tri club is going to be doing a "group ride" of the course on friday, leaving T1 around 9AMish, with a practice OWS to follow. That alone is worth the membership dues for a year to me. Ride will have a water station and SAG. Everyone will go at their own pace, so not a group ride in that sense.

Might be worth checking them out if your going Friday anyways.

Wow, 9 AM is pretty much exactly when I was planning on taking off from there. Seems like a great idea. I dropped an email to the club management. Thanks!