IM distance races near Ohio? - Page 2 - Triathlon Week

11-21-2004, 10:15 AM

Full Ultramax has been discontinued for 2005 as well. Mark Livesay (race
director) announced last week that he was going to focus his energies on the
US Half Championship event, that Ultramax had too few participants to make
it a viable fundraiser for the Race for Sight series (all his events donate
profits to charity).

However, there will be a new Irondistance enent on that same date (sept. 24,
2005) in Oklahoma City. It is being organized by the guy who has put on the
OKC Memorial Marathon for the past 4 years. If you have access to Southwest
airlines, they usually have cheap internet fares and only charge $40 each to
fly w/your bike.

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

"John Hardt" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
> On 11/16/04 1:15 PM, in article, "Harold Buck" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
> wrote:
>
>> In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
>> John Hardt <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't know how to really quantify this, but I can tell you that the
>>> Blue
>>> Devil course really isn't THAT hilly. I live in (flat) central Ohio and
>>> had
>>> no trouble with the course. Actually there aren't any hills on the BD
>>> course that are any worse than the worst hill at Pineman - just a couple
>>> of
>>> more in terms of quantity, but nothing worse in terms of magnitude.
>>> [disclaimer: I am talking about the bike course here. The BD run course
>>> is
>>> a bit of a challenge if you're planning on running the entire thing].
>>>
>>
>> I put the DBD course profile up against the IM Wisconsin one, and it
>> seemed like more hills on DBD, but shorter and not as steep. It's hard
>> to tell from those things sometimes, but I don't think it will be a
>> horrible problem even though I live in Indianapolis, which is probably
>> about as flat as central Ohio.
>>
>> There's no run course profile for DBD, but if necessary I can take it
>> easy on the uphills. I was shooting for under 13 hours, although that
>> was for a flat course.
>>
>> The map for the run course says something about a hard-packed dirt trail
>> to the right. Does that mean there's a trail by the side of the road for
>> the whole race? If so, I'll almost certainly do DBD since I greatly
>> prefer to run on soft surfaces.
>>
>
> Harold,
>
> No, the trail they are referring to doesn't follow the road the whole way,
> but you may be able to run on soft surfaces anyway.
>
> The entire DBD run course is on a closed, two-lane, asphalt park road, but
> there is well-maintained grass on each side. So, you could run off the
> road
> surface in the grass if you want to - and I saw many people doing this for
> at least part of the run (including me when my feet started to hurt).
>
> The hard-packed trail they refer to in the route description is nothing
> more
> than a VERY short (100 yd each way?) out and back segment that shoots off
> perpendicular to the park road. It is the ONLY part of the course that
> deviates from the park road and it is such a non-issue I'm surprised they
> even bother to mention it.
>
> John
>

11-21-2004, 10:44 AM

In article <P24od.22685$[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].prodigy.com> ,
"trihard" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

> However, there will be a new Irondistance enent on that same date (sept. 24,
> 2005) in Oklahoma City. It is being organized by the guy who has put on the
> OKC Memorial Marathon for the past 4 years. If you have access to Southwest
> airlines, they usually have cheap internet fares and only charge $40 each to
> fly w/your bike.
>
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Thanks for the info! That one sounds like it might work for me.

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson