Did anyone else have confusion over the buoys on the swim portion of the HITS Palm Springs Sunday Race?
There were two green buoys at the start, 2 sets of yellow buoys, and a single red buoy at the far end of the swim course. It seemed the red buoy was left over from the Saturday half/full ironman races.
My niece swam the Sprint of 750 meters where everyone swam around the second set of yellow buoys, completely ignoring the red buoy. My Olympic group swam 30 minutes later all the way around the red buoy for two loops for a total of what appeared to be 1.2 miles (half-iron length), instead of 1500 meters. As I was the slowest one out there, I didn't make the 1 hour cutoff. I know I need to better my swim time, but I was prevented from going into T1 for the bike portion of the race.
There were two green buoys at the start, 2 sets of yellow buoys, and a single red buoy at the far end of the swim course. It seemed the red buoy was left over from the Saturday half/full ironman races.
My niece swam the Sprint of 750 meters where everyone swam around the second set of yellow buoys, completely ignoring the red buoy. My Olympic group swam 30 minutes later all the way around the red buoy for two loops for a total of what appeared to be 1.2 miles (half-iron length), instead of 1500 meters. As I was the slowest one out there, I didn't make the 1 hour cutoff. I know I need to better my swim time, but I was prevented from going into T1 for the bike portion of the race.