Waiting for Danskin Tri Registration

[Wahine]

And I could host a pre-danskin training weekend here in the Gorge and you'd all be obligated to come.

[KnottedYet]

Wheeeeeee!

[teigyr]

woohoo

Now I'm just impatiently staring at the Danskin site saying "open open open..."

[KnottedYet]

I need to lose 20 lbs before I can fit in my wetsuit again.

[salsabike]

I need to lose a gazillion pounds and I need a wetsuit. I know I can do the bike part and the swim part (I heard you need to throw the occasional elbow, which as a native NYer I can do when required). And I expect I'll walk the run part. I am getting excited about this.

[KnottedYet]

I need to lose a gazillion pounds and I need a wetsuit. I know I can do the bike part and the swim part (I heard you need to throw the occasional elbow, which as a native NYer I can do when required). And I expect I'll walk the run part. I am getting excited about this.

My best friend did it without a wetsuit in 2006. Wetsuits aren't required. I can't swim, so I needed one just to keep afloat.

Can't say as I had to fling elbows, or had elbows flung at me. I know I can't swim well, so I stayed back and just putt-putted. I had a grand time, which I did NOT expect from the swim! On the bike, no elbows required.

I walked the run part in 2006, and cheered for everyone. Absolute blast! This year I'd like to run/walk. (I'll still cheer, that was such fun!)

Also, on the bike part there were folks watching from their front yards. We cheered THEM for allowing the race to go thru their neighborhood!

I just love the spirit of a women-only race!

Edit: BTW, sleeveless wetsuits can be rented from Northwest Outdoor Center for pretty cheap. www.nwoc.com

[salsabike]

I am feeling totally and insanely stoked about this.

[KnottedYet]

I am feeling totally and insanely stoked about this.

Yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!

[Wahine]

You should be feeling stoked. And if everyone agrees and we do a training weekend, we'll go over setting up your transitions and practice them. We'll do a group swim and work on sighting. These are areas where a little practice and knowledge goes a long way to making your race go smoothly and decreasing the Tri jitters so you can just have fun.

[salsabike]

Wahine, YOU are a doll. What fun that weekend would be!

[MM_QFC!]

I need to lose a gazillion pounds and I need a wetsuit. I know I can do the bike part and the swim part (I heard you need to throw the occasional elbow, which as a native NYer I can do when required). And I expect I'll walk the run part. I am getting excited about this.

HA! Thanks for the grin, Salsa...
from another native NYer with elbows prn...(but will be in NY on the Empire State AIDS ride during the Seattle Danskin)

[salsabike]

The PNW politeness suits me very well, but I can still call on NY if absolutely required. The elbow comment came from someone I talked to yesterday who'd been through open water swim training and said they were told by the trainer that there are sometimes people who will just swim right over you, literally, and if that happens, use an elbow or two to get them off you. So, only in self-defense, is what I meant...

[MM_QFC!]

polite-as-can-be-here-too, so I thought it was a joking reference and never, ever thought you meant it literally...even in self defense...sheesh!

MM...tweaking away here and in jeopardy of getting an errant elbow on Saturday

[teigyr]

I've been known to revert back to my SoCal ways** when I'm down there. I also have no problem with elbows or whatever though I've noticed in the women's tri's, there is much politeness. I think the Danskin swim wave is larger than the Subaru or Kirkland ones (the basis of my experience) but I bet it won't be that bad.

One of my swim instructors said she was in a womens 50-55 wave (or something like that) and they were put with the Clydesdales! She said they truly had no finesse and she was quite battered when she left the water

**meaning that a turn signal doesn't mean you're turning, it means the other cars need to hurry up so they can block you from entering their lane

[KnottedYet]

Ooh, it's like Chicken McNugget in a tank of Pirahnas.

At lunchtime, Danskin still wasn't open for any race registrations.
I just checked, and now there is a notice up that Danskin Orlando CLOSED at 9pm. http://www.timberlinetiming.com/inde...1&showBanner=1

So, does this mean that Orlando opened, filled up, and closed in the space of 8 hours?

Hoooo, boy.