Beach to Battleship

This will be my first attempt at an HIM distance. Will there be water bottle exchanges available for the HIM distance?

Last year there were a couple of aid stations - I recall one outbound and one inbound. They didn't appear to have many takers when I went by, but I think it's prudent to already have what you'll need onboard just in case the stations don't work out.

Yes there was 2 exchanges. Water was in a regular plastic bottle that you poured into your own bottle. Heed (Watermelon) was exchanged.

c2manymillers wrote:Yes there was 2 exchanges. Water was in a regular plastic bottle that you poured into your own bottle. Heed (Watermelon) was exchanged.

Can anyone tell me if the Water bottles (Deer Park sport cap I believe) fit snug in a regular bottle cage? I will not be using an aerodrink but will have a regular cage between my bars so I need the bottle to fit snug otherwise it will be flying out pretty quick.

I hope someone educates the volunteers about how to hand off water bottles. It was freezing cold last year and I wore gloves on the bike. Several times I tried to grab water on the fly as I went through aid stations, but the volunteers just held the bottles out stationary. Every time I tried to grab one it just slapped out of their hand and ended up on the ground. They need to move the bottle with you a bit ... like a track and field relay baton exchange. This is especially important in the cold where people are wearing gloves.

psycholist wrote:I hope someone educates the volunteers about how to hand off water bottles. It was freezing cold last year and I wore gloves on the bike. Several times I tried to grab water on the fly as I went through aid stations, but the volunteers just held the bottles out stationary. Every time I tried to grab one it just slapped out of their hand and ended up on the ground. They need to move the bottle with you a bit ... like a track and field relay baton exchange. This is especially important in the cold where people are wearing gloves.

That's because you go too bloody fast.

Maybe that should be in the past tense. Tough year so far this year ... broken ribs, punctured lung, herniated disc, arthritis ... I could go on. If you don't know what a fistula is, you don't want to know. You REALLY don't want to have one.