The International Triathlon Union (ITU) received mostly positive feedback from the Pacific Beach and Mission Beach communities after the ITU held the U.S. Olympic team trials in San Diego for the first time. The ITU event required road closures throughout the beach area between May 10-12, and featured 2,100 participants and as many as 10,000 spectators. Franziska Petermann and other representatives from the ITU San Diego office attended the monthly Pacific Beach Community Advisory Board and Pacific Beach Town Council meetings on consecutive evenings last week to field comments or questions from the community.?Discover Pacific Beach Director Sara Berns said her office fielded no negative feedback from the community.?Pacific Beach resident Cathie Jolley, who lives near one of the road closures, said she had plenty of time to coordinate her schedule because the ITU publicized the event at least two weeks beforehand.?Marcie Beckett said the ITU organizers did a “great job,” but she suggested additional signage to give alternate routes for anyone who was unaware of the event. Eve Anderson said the only complaints she heard were secondhand from post office, cable, satellite and transit employees who said they had difficulty navigating around the road closures.?Another Pacific Beach resident asked the ITU representatives about the economic impact on the beach area, to which ITU representatives responded that it is too early to determine. There is a possibility the ITU will hold future events in Pacific Beach/Mission Beach.?”We would like to come back but we have to wait for the city to evaluate if the event returns,” Petermann said.