Registration for the 2009 Seattle Danskin Triathlon, now known known as the SheROX Tri Series (more on that later) opened today... and what a fiasco! It took Deb about an hour to get registered. It took me about an hour and a half... and we were the lucky ones. Our terrific TriTurtle Lisa Ballou was at the computer, tri, tri, and tri'ing again from 7am this morning until 5:07 tonight, until she finally got through.
Email today has been pretty interesting as tri-babes check in to let us know that they're in or are still trying. Several of their comments were pretty clever. I got a big kick out of Rhonda Stephens' email which pointed out that it took her 4 hours longer to register than it will take her to do the tri and she wanted to know if she got a shirt just for registering!
I sure hope today was a function of the registration service they are using and not the Danskin Tri team itself because there is a completely a new crew running the Danskin Tri.
There is a new sprint distance women's Tri series in town, and I'm not saying that because the Danskin Tri's crew has changed.... I'm referring to the Trek Tri...
Sally Edwards came to the Team Survivor Northwest annual retreat last weekend (Feb 6-8) at Fort Worden, and while she was here she talked about the new Trek Tri, which in many ways is the old Danskin Tri except with a new name. Sally told us that pretty much everyone who was running the Danskin Tri series that we are familiar with has quit and is now working for the Trek Tri. This includes Maggie Sullivan (the organizer and one of the co-founders of Team Survivor national)and the Swim Angels plus plus plus. The Trek tri is going to give Team Survivor national 10% of their proceeds off the top (before expenses). She went on to explain that this is very good for Team Survivor because often when an event pledges to give a certain percentage of their proceeds to a charity, that percentage is calculated based upon the net, which often means that the charity gets very little, if anything.
Deb and I have signed up for 3 Triathlons for 2009 so far. She's also signed up for the Lance Armstrong ride in Seattle in June, and a Sarcoma fundraising ride in Portland, which she tried to interest me in, but I need to leave time open to get to know my new nephew Adrian.
The first Tri we're doing is the Seattle Rainman Triathlon, on March 1st, in Greenlake (just north of Seattle). It's actually a pretty funny event in some ways because 2 of the 3 events are indoors. We swim in a pool, bike on a stationary trainer which they provide in the transition area, and then do a lap outside around the lake. As they say, 2 out of 3 isn't bad! Fortunately 2 out of 3 of the distances are also a lot shorter than the Danskin because, no, I have NOT stayed in great shape over the winter, and I'm a little freaked out about it because I haven't had time for regular workouts recently either. Deb, of course, could do it sleep walking. She's very inspirational.
The second Tri will be the Seattle Women's Trek Tri on July 5th. That gives me 3 full months to work up to it and to get down to San Jose to meet Adrian. Racking our bikes on July 4th is going to be an interesting way to spend the holiday, but oh well. Hopefully Lake Washington won't be too cold. Team Survivor Northwest is participating in this event officially. Although a lot of TriBabes will participate, including our TriTurtle Lisa, the Tri Babes's "official" event will be the Danskin... which is another reason Deb and I are grateful to be on two teams.
The Seattle Danskin Tri will be around it's usual time, August 16th.
Deb is also doing the New York Metro Danskin Tri, in Sandy Hook New Jersey, as part of a three generation family relay team on September 13th.
Hang on for the ride - it's going to be an interesting summer!
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