Just back from the weekend in Lake Placid. We arrived on Saturday around noon and after checking into our motel in Tupper Lake we headed for Lake Placid. Tupper Lake is about a 40 minute drive, but it was the only place left after I left it to late to get into someplace closer.
We scouted out the bike course and I rode a section on from Jay to Keene. It was hot and sunny and a bit steamy from some rain earlier in the day. It down hill all the way into Keene and after riding back up, I decided to do it again. Spent about 2 hours riding and got good look at that part of the course.
On Sunday morning we got up early and got back to the race site for the swim start, I’ve never seen a mass swim start at an Ironman and since I’m planning on doing this one next year, I thought it would be a good idea to see if it is as bad as everyone makes it out to be. The sky was over cast and it looked like rain. The swim start is fairly wide and it looked like people were lined up 10 to 15 deep and when the gun went off it looked pretty messy for the first few minutes. It seemed that a lot of people held back for a couple of minutes until the melee had passed. The swim is held in Mirror Lake and the conditions are perfect there. The lake was as smooth as a mirror, no waves, no currents, well marked and a 2 loop swim. This is the kind of swim that you will not be doing any off course swims.
That was as dry as those poor athletes were going to get that day. It started raining before most people had gotten on their bikes and it rained all day! Sometimes harder than other, but it was dreary and raining all day. I gotta hand it to anyone that took part in that, spectators included.
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