Early Season Half Suggestions
Hey guys- I was planning on doing TTT for my early big race this season, but recently decided against it. SO, I am looking for an early season half iron distance to do, figure May or June, that is in the midwest. I dont need a big 70.3 brand race, just the distance. Anyone have any recommendations of a race they have done/heard about that would be a fun race to do? Thanks!
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I'm going to be doing High Cliff HIM in June. There should be some other folks doing it also. I know there were last year. Supposed to be a good race.
www.midwestsportsevents.com/highclifftri.html
If you want a good pre-IMWI half, I highly recomend Kansas 70.3. The swim is accurate, the bike course is VERY similar to IMWI, and the run has a ton of specators with a decent hill you have to run twice. If it wasn't a 9 hour drive for me, I would easily pay 3x as much to do Kansas over High Cliff.
Both races are the within a week of each other and in my opinion prefect timing for IMWI.
@Chris, the only half I know of in NTX in that timeframe is TX man, by Dallas Athletes. I think it's usually in late July. It's freakin HOT and HUMID though, lots of hills too. Ran out of Lewisville area.
I live near White Rock Lake, btw. Where you at?
Same here, especially after reading your post.
And, for those who care about such things, it has had a pretty good pro line-up, e.g., Chrissie Wellington has run it the last couple years and stayed to hand out medals. Moreover, again because of the way the run is laid out with both an out-and-back and the double loop, you have a good chance to see the leaders running during the race. I did it in 2009, finishing in a bit over 5 hours, and got to see both men's and women's leaders on the run.
@Matt - sent you a note about this via Facebook
Hi Scott, I am up in Frisco. I did the TXMan Olympic last year and agree it's hot. They moved it up to May in 2011. Looks like they may drop the HIM distance though. It is not showing up on their website.
if you are set on doing it, you can usually save a little by registering before 12/31.
I'm just curious, why did you decide against TTT? You can do just the half (which is called Little Smokies Half) instead of all the races. I am considering it since I just found out that the Macon, GA half I was going to do has been moved to October.
The last several years there has been a half in Taylorsville, KY in mid May. It's not a big name race but I've heard it's fun. I have the same schedule conflict every year so I've never done it.
http://www.headfirstperformance.com/Half/Halfannoncement.htm
(Seems to me that you could recover from Pigman in time, especially if it's done mainly on a social level, i.e., not tapered (except that you're in the midst of the HIM taper). It's an opportunity cost calculation. You'd probably be doing like a 2-2.5 hour bike ride that weekend and doing a rest day Sat, Sun, or Mon. (Can't remember from last year). The last week is light, so you could probably work in a day's rest that's not written in)