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Anyone interested in taking my reservation for camping at Lake Anna Friday and Saturday nights? Cost was $87 total. (I had a discount code). PM me in the next day or I plan on moving the reservation to a later date. Thanks!
Yay!! I will never forget Freshbikes installed my new crankset. I love my crankset. It will always carry a special place in my heart while pedaling.
I’ll be rolling from Capitol Hill at 8:10am tomorrow morning if there are any other Capitol Hill folks planning to ride.
Update: I wrote an email to VTMTS to inform them of the camping issues above and asked them to advocate for the triathletes with the town. Their response seems to indicate to me they don’t really care much. It was kind of a flippant response in my honest opinion. I really hope that others that find out what happened might want to advocate. While I like to support the club, I’m probably not going to do this race next year if this is the situation. Maybe we will get another race designated for the club championships. Response is below:
Hi Lorraine – My apologies for not taking the town campsite link down earlier. It completely slipped my mind. The only thing that would make the Rock Hall races better would be several hundred hotel rooms just down the street.
Greg [Hawkins of VTMTS]
I have more information on what happened at Rock Hall this year for camping and I hope that as a club, we can respond in some way. Bay Shore Camping is not accepting additional reservations. I called them today looking for camping and they turned me away. They did not provide me with any help in finding alternatives. Athletes are simply out of luck as there are no hotel reservations available in town and the only ones remotely close cost several hundred dollars. This is messed up in so many ways because Bay Shore Camping is apparently the reason why the Rock Hall Lodging Association was not allowed to provide campsites to athletes this year.
What happened is that Bay Shore Campgrounds went to the town and complained that the Lodging Association was taking away their business by offering camping adjacent to the race. They assured the town that they never turned away people (I know that not to be true because they just turned me away). This is a terrible deal for the triathletes. Not only did we have access to a single night of camping (Bay Shore requires two nights), Bay Shore is several miles away whereas the Lodging Association provided camping adjacent to the race site, but they do not have enough space to accommodate the crowds. As a club, we should be complaining about this and I hope that we can send some type of communication to the Rock Hall town and to USA Triathlon that Rock Hall cannot support the race if camping is limited to Bay Shores and that the Lodging Association should be allowed to provide camping again. From my understanding, the Lodging Association had plans for portable showers and all kinds of other services for the triathletes to make our race experience even better this year, but that all those plans were cancelled when Bay Shores complained.
Found an alternative and cancelled the reservation. I will update the Rock Hall Camping thread with a message that hopefully people will read that is based on my discussions with some people who previously organized camping nearby. See you at Rock Hall Olympic!
I am also still looking for a camping location. Does anyone have any information on whether there is going to be field camping available or not?
There’s an open water swim clinic being offered Saturday in connection with the Kinetic Triathlon races.
I tried to register but it won’t let me. It says “sales ended”. Anyone able to fix this so we can register?
Just saw on the news that metro will be closed that morning 5-7am. You can get home on metro but you can’t get there on it.
I’ve gone to Wakefield pool twice now and its very nice. Once when the DC pools were closed for a holiday. Once because I noticed they keep the water a little cooler and I wanted to try out my wetsuit. I don’t know if you have to be an Arlington resident for free entry or if you can also be an Alexandria native. I’m DC, so I had to pay $8 entry.
