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Official IMUSA Tri Rally Thread

Coach PatrickCoach Patrick
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Team,

As you should know, we are hosting free "tri-rallies" on the IMUSA and IMWI courses. I'll be headlining the IMUSA camp and it's gonna be awesome. Here area the notes:

Notes:

  • Details here
  • Cost: FREE! Just show up, train your brains out on the course, meet your teammates, listen to me run my mouth about IM training and racing. Bring your friends, invite your tri clubs, whatever. We want this to be big and fun, the total opposite of the typical high dollar camp experience.
  • Lodging: host hotel is the Northwoods, right in the center of downtown. We have a block of rooms reserved under the name "Endurance Nation." Use that to get the discounted rate of $99 for a suite with 2 beds. Recommend you use this thread to hook up with another camper to save money on lodging.
  • General plan for training is:
    • Thursday: evening arrival, maybe a quick ride, beers at the Brewery, etc. Admin day.
    • Friday = race rehearsal ride of the course. Your pace, solo, this is your chance to dial in your race execution on YOUR course. This is HUGE.
    • Saturday: some flavor of epically cool ride. We'll put together a version of our off-course ride from 2009 that included lunch on lake champlain and riding on dirt roads, etc.
    • Sunday: one lap of the run course vs the half marathon there (?), showered and checked out of hotel by 11a.
  • Camp dinner, Saturday night at Northwoods Inn. Likely the Great Dane. $30 via PayPal from the link on the page above.
  • Talks: see the schedule at the page above. Not sure about where yet. Tennis courts if nice, I guess.

Are you in?

  1. Post to this thead if you are coming.
  2. Please also RSVP to the event on Facebook, and use the "invite your friends" jazz to tell your peeps about the camp and encourage them to come!
  3. Finally, if you want dinner, please use the PayPal link on the camps page to prepay. That's really the only count I need, for $$$ purposes, but Facebook is a good tool for us to spread the word and to communicate to you.

The Skinny

Placid is like a hometown race for me. I've done it five times, qualified for Kona twice, and have done a gillion training camps on the course. I've been at the race to coach and spectate almost every year of the event. It's a great place to train and this weekend will be a blast.

I want EN to own this race as a Team; every year a ton of folks show up from NYC, and there's no reason why EN can't dominate if each one of you passes this on to your friends and training partners. Right now the offical count is 39 folks..time to start recruiting!!!

Thanks,

 

Patrick

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