Quote Originally Posted by Possegal View Post
OK, since you ladies did this as a relay, I need to ask some questions. I'm doing one as a relay on the 13th. Never done one before in my life, never even watched one other than on TV. Anything I need to know before hand? The guy who is doing the swim for us is not someone I know and he asked me recently:
Also, not sure how relays work, do you want to practice whatever transition/handoff we have to do before the race?
Is that something we should actually worry about practicing? What all is involved? Of course for us the first issue would be finding each other, since we've never met. I recommended him meeting up with me the day before when I have to rack my bike. Is this sufficient? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

And thanks so much MDHillSlug - your post on the tri board netted me 4 emails of people interested in joining my team. I took the first response once I knew I could change from a female relay to a co-ed one, as he was not interested in swimming in drag.
I hadn't met our runner until the day before at packet pickup and bike racking; we then all went out to lunch to get to know each other and to talk about the race. For the day of the race we met at the bike/rack. I recommend making the bike your focal point.

Since there didn't seem to be a restriction on how many team members were allowed in transition we did it that the runner made the chip transfer from swimmer to biker and the swimmer made the transfer from biker to runner. I don't know what others were doing but this worked well for us. I don't think it needs practicing but you gotta make sure that everyone states an anticipated range of time for their event so that the others have a clue for when they need to be at the rack.

Have fun!