Runningvixen wrote:
I heard this year was the coolest in a long time at Eagleman and it was 85?! Some years closer to 100? I'd be in wave 16... So out on the course later...
Eagleman is the worst. The swim is like swimming in a hot tub. The tide went out so for the entire second half I would catch mud on each pull. There was so much mud that my shoes and bike were caked in it as I was heading out of transition and flinging it everywhere as I started the bike segment. The mud also made the bike to run transition unpleasant. The run is a 100 degree high-humidity out-and-back death march with no shade.
Not really many spectators either. I'm used to races with huge crowds cheering you on, but the run was pretty miserable and only a few dedicated groups out cheering. Though it was fun because some people were in their front yards spraying runners with hoses.
I love racing, but Eagleman was the least fun HIM I've ever done and the slowest aside my very first one years ago.