Waiting for Danskin Tri Registration

[teigyr]

I checked mine and then checked those people who I knew their last names.

Cause, you know, just want to make sure we all get in

[Wahine]

Congrats on getting in everyone!! What a team. You definitely need team jerseys and even if I'm not doing it I might have to come up and watch. What's the date again?

[Quillfred]

Getting an "internal error". I figure site is either jammed or reg. is closed. I will persue REI. Gotta go!

[jesvetmed]

August 17th (Sunday) is the day. Support team is always welcome!!!!! There's nothing greater than hearing cheering as you go by (even in last place)

Let's see -- other things to obscess over, Teigyr.... getting into that d***ed wetsuit! That's a big one! (ha... big, get it!)

Jes

[teigyr]

Q, keep trying. A woman here kept getting the error because the servers were jammed/slow. Persistence

Ah yes, the wetsuit. Trust me, I got a complex the first time I tried mine on! Then I felt like a cross between a beached whale and Wonder Woman. It was kind of spiffy.

[Xrayted]

So I signed up for age group. Is that a good or bad thing?

[jesvetmed]

Laughing and laughing at the wonder woman thought! Yes, that is what I will tell myself as I stand in front of the mirror the first time. OMG, do I have to wear this in PUBLIC?

[MM_QFC!]

August 17th (Sunday) is the day. Support team is always welcome!!!!! There's nothing greater than hearing cheering as you go by (even in last place)

Let's see -- other things to obscess over, Teigyr.... getting into that d***ed wetsuit! That's a big one! (ha... big, get it!)

Jes

that's easy...pack a can of no-stick cooking spray, i.e., PAM
(it really works)...I've volunteered as Danskin support a number of times (out on the road route/I-90 express lanes and at the swim finish), but it unfortunately conflicts my AIDS ride in NY state in August. I know you'll all have tons o' fun together though...and I still think that we could sell tix (hmmm, AIDS ride fundraiser ) if Wahine does a training clinic with this crowd!

[salsabike]

Yay, Quill and X and jesvetmed!

I registered mixed age but then was advised by an experienced friend that mixed age is HUGE and I should change it to my age group, which would be the 50-54 group, since the group size is much smaller and more manageable. Happy to hear advice/thoughts from the rest of you on this...we can change groups up to two weeks before.

What a nutty day. One of my teachers ran frantically into my office today around 10 am saying "I can't get through, I can't get through to register in Danskin!". I think it was school district internet blocking. The librarian finally figured out how to bypass the blocking, just in the nick of time. Then I went to a 1 pm meeting with another tri teacher who'd just gotten a freaked-out phone call from her friend, who had waited a few hours to register and by the time she tried, it was closed. Boy, what a PAGEANT this whole thing is. That's why I think it'll be fun. Phew.

Since Nanci and I are engaged in an ongoing email contest which we call "who looks more like Jabba right now?", I think I will win the "oh my God I have to be in public in a wetsuit, the horror, the horror" contest. But I would feel stupider if I let that stop me from doing something I think I can do so...onwards. And outwards (wetsuitwise)!

[KnottedYet]

I kinda like the way I look in a wetsuit, from certain angles. (from others, well, not so much)

So, I tried to count, but I'm too tired after staying up late to register, then being unable to sleep due to excitement and hamster-treadmill-brain.

Are there 7 of us in Seattle?

[Xrayted]

I just registered. It kept giving me an error too Quillfred but I kept going back on screen and submitting it again. It finally went through but all during registration, I had to go back and then ahead on most screens. They must either be jammed. Keep trying and in the meantime, print it out and get it ready to post. Just in case.