Me and the wife are headed that way this weekend for a little r-n-r (riding and racing). We’re driving out Friday morning, going to ride 3-4 hours and swim on Saturday and racing the Desert Classic Du on Sunday. Any recommedations on some good local restaurants? We’re staying in Tempe near Town Lake. Where should we ride on Saturday, IMAZ old course? Pools near there? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Shawn,
ASU is right there, they have 2 pools. I don’t know their hours but know that tri practice is 10 am sat. Also, eldorado isn’t too far and it’s open 1-5 saturday. We ride the old course and park in the lot on corner of packard and rio salado. I was just about to post something about my ride for sat, check that out if you are interested!
There are plenty of restaraunts to chose from on Mill. PF Chang’s has their “training menu” with suggestions from PNF. Bamboo Club is good, so is Ra Sushi, many people rave about Cafe Boa. It’s really whatever you are looking for, there aren’t any I consider bad.
The simplest route from there is the IMAZ bike course, although I usually make it even simpler by staying on Rio Salado all the way to the 87/Beeline. The only swim I can think of besides ASU is the 24 hour fitness on Baseline and 101, they have some sort of ridiculous 1 day fee like $15 or even more but it’s 25 meters indoors and hardly used.
IF you want to drive up to North Scottsdale come to SASSI (www.sassi.biz) I’ll buy you a drink…
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