Also, to be clear… I would love to see you there but the last thing I need is to provoke you into starting this race and therefore beating me. 
…AAAAND there it is… my first use of the new ST Forum Emoji feature. How did we ever go this long…
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Im so glad you posted those courses up, makes me feel a lot better about my chances…And Dan will be joining in too, I think he may be thing about the two sprint double…2 miles I can fake, 5k and it just all my flaws!!!
This is going to be so fun and nostalgic, I really hope the folks from the past will pitch up and help revive this most classic of triathlons…
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I did the “easy double” the last year Wildflower existed and had a “type 3 fun” time in the Olympic (it was rough).
I obviously learned nothing as I signed up for the “less easy double” this go around. Long course / Oly and can’t wait for May!
One year I was at mile 8 of the long course bike, got stung by a bee (I’m allergic/highly reactive) popped a Benadryl and EpiPen at the ready. Made it to the Jolon Rd aid station and pulled the plug. Then on Sunday raced the Oly, that was a tough Oly! Huge credit to anyone doing the double, even an “east” double!
for myself as a european wildflower is the real triathlon and not kona and i really hope it will work out for them.
I did the “easy double” the last year Wildflower existed and had a “type 3 fun” time in the Olympic (it was rough).///
I don’t know about any easy doubles, but so you all know, Ian and my swim coach Michael Collins did the old triple back in the day. How you may ask can that be done, well here’s how…You start the long course swim and finish it, then the off road sprint starts and you get in on that and do the entire race. You then get on your bike to race the cutoff of the long course bike and run, which is not an easy task. Then you get up the next morning and do the olympic, and there you have it, the Wildflower triple…
So dont feel sorry for Ian, he is sandbagging me into racing him, which I of course will oblige as I’m never one to back down from a challenge, even someone 3 age groups below me… (-;
Wildflower triple… holy cow. I love it. I will not be doing that.
I think he did the sprint and long course simultaneously by doing the Long course swim then coming to T1 and removing his long course timing chip and putting his sprint timing chip on and then going to the start of sprint, do the entire sprint and then after finish line, come back to transition with chip from sprint removed, put on Long course timing chip and finish the long course. Pretty smart !!! (and tiring). He had the longest T1 in history!!!
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Hmmm, I was thinking Long Course just cuz… more is better. But thinking of the beating I took on Jolon in 2018… the easy double may be the way… Would mean I didn’t have to get back on the bike for very long.
Off road would be a MTB, wonder how many would do on gravel v MTB?
Yeah, that is my understanding of how the Saturday is done, not sure there’s another way logistically to do it
We’ll be there at the expo 
(and racing)
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Chris, I’m stoked for the off-road sprint and I’m racing it on my gravle bike with 47mm tires (which is overkill but will be fine). The swim course is the same (super short, fast, out-n-back from the boat ramp). The run course is the same (2mi, short, steep punchy climbs along the paved lake road). The bike course is new in the that is now follows the first 8ish miles of the Long Course run so there will be more trail. I love that change and I’m really looking forward to that. I’ll need to look back and see how I’ve finished there in the past and try to set a goal based off those results.