Naperville August Tri

Good. This is my first tri. The less the better fr a newbie

anyone racing this weekend?

Yup, hopefully gonna be the first trial of my Softride Rocket TT7

Yep, I'm in. Did it last year and it was fun, just trying to beat my own time.

trying to decide where to start in the swim. I generally swim about a 8 min 400 but sometimes its fun to start the very last person and see how many people you can pass all day

This was my very first tri ever last year, i put my self further back then i should have been in the swim... that was the worst idea ever, trying to swim past all those people sucked. so many people put themselves into the ten minutes slot that were actually swimming the 400m in 16+ minutes it was downright dangerous. Some one tried to use me to keep from drowning before we even hit the first turn... I'm putting myself in the 7 minute slot to avoid that problem this year.

do you have to stand in that mega line still (last time I did this race was 3 years ago)

oh my god! the race started at 7, i hit the water at 8... the elites were done before i got wet,

I wouldn't recommend doing that here, unless you like being stuck. This race is notoriously oversold (they have like 2000 spots), and you'll never make it through the M-shaped swim at a good pace if you're even a mediocre swimmer. Maybe it's changed since 2012, but it was really bad. Typical WTC production......

Thats what happened to me. its not even that its oversold, it's such a casual race half the people don't know how fast they swim, or are not mentally prepared for the washing machine... it caught me by surprise too... but some people loose there focus and its all over.

Got my packet this morning, im 109, say hi if you see me. Ill be the guy on a softride

318 look for the shark

had a blast even though my seat dropped 5 inches during the bike (Loose bolt). bike was crowed on the second loop. had my best sprint swim ever

best bike ever, better run than last year, and slightly better... but still not a fast as i expected swim... took too long to find my groove.