Subject: RE: Redman I got confirmation that the 2016 Redman wait list will open up on July 1st. Since this is the location of the ITU World Long Course World Championship this year's Redman Triathlon will only be offered at the distances of the Long Course Championships of 4K swim, 75 mi bike, 18 mi run. There will be separate wave starts for the Redman Triathlong from the ITU World Championship Athletes. On another note... after a year and a half as a triathlete I final was able to do my first training work out with another triathletes. I was invited for a 100 miles bike ride on Saturday. My longest ride was the 68 miles I did with the Freewheels Oklahoma Bike Tour on Tuesday so I didn't know how I would hold up on the ride, but it wasn't any harder than the 25 mile rides that I have been doing on a mountain bike at 7 mph with the boy scouts the past 6 weeks (in prep for the OK bike Tour). I had two other people on the ride with me but the one that was the strongest cyclist of us all got leg cramps at mile 60 and couldn't work through them so we SAG's in at mile 84. It was still quite inspiring to me. A year ago I was dying at mile 50 miles, on Saturday I took nothing but water for the fist 4 hours of our ride and felt strong the whole way. Despite this year's Redman being longer that what I wanted for my next race I am really considering put in for the wait list. |