140.6chick wrote:
Lots of great suggestions here, thanks everyone. To those peeps who suggested the Auburn Tri--I like it, but I am supposed to do a sub 7 hour HIM to validate my entry into the other race. Which normally wouldn't be a problem, but looking at last year's results, only 38 of the 92 finishers were sub-7. Good Lord, how hard is this race?! Sounds like they have taken 2K+ of the climbing on the bike course out, so that will make things faster but geez. What do you think one would add to their standard HIM time to guesstimate a finish time at Auburn?
Looking back at my 70.3 race times for 2015 and 2016, it looks like I my overall finish times were 30 minutes slower in Auburn than they were at Austin and Oceanside. I was about 10 minutes slower in Auburn than I was for Donner Lake. If you don't mind driving 2 hours east from the Sacramento Airport (or an hour West from the Reno Airport), then I'd recommend the Donner Lake Triathlon particularly if you have family or friends in tow because they just hang out at the beach all day listening to live music while you race. The bike has a lot of climbing but the run is relatively flat and spectacular.
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