Milton Man race

[unlimited]

Anyone doing this one?

Has anyone done this one before??? How is the swim (depth, water, etc)? Bike? Run?

Is it newbie friendly?

[sarazim]

I think I'm in for the olympic. Never done it before, but can't find another olympic that works with my schedule!

[MarkD]

Did the inaugural race last year. Check out the race re-cap section for last years reports. In sum: Good race, well organized. I really liked the bike and run on this one. My only critisism is the swim... for the olympic race you go out and back 3 times - which means six 180 degree turns. I hope they change the swim course this year.

[unlimited]

Thanks to Roger Miller for his awesome race recap from last year which I just read.

It looks like last year the swim of the sprint was 500 and this year it is 750. It sounded like in some of the posts, the water is quite shallow??

Is it a beach start? I am most concerned about the swim, I am a weak swimmer and that extra 250 has me worried!!

[alison]

I am planning on doing the Oly race here.

My goodness, three out and backs?!? that totally stinks! I hope the sprint has been changed to a 750 so the oly only has to do one out and back, though I do prefer singe loop swims. I also hope it is NOT shallow. Spending half of a 1500m swim dodging water-walkers is not my idea of a good time (not to mention a waste of energy).

Sorry Unlimited, sounds like we are hoping for very different things on the swim

Alison

[unlimited]

Alison......you bet we are!!! I would GLADLY bike an extra 50 miles to skip the swim entirely!!!

I hope I am not one of the people you have "dodge"!! hahahah

[TimAckley]

I am in for the Oly...

[Paul]

I'm in for the Oly but I sure hope that the swim is not three out and backs.