Ironman St. George : Official Thread (Page 8)

Ok, well after a long weekend (Fri - Sun) in bed, I am feeling better and have been able to eat some soup yesterday. I am very tired but feel much, much better today.

So it is approaching a week since my last workout. I feel like I should do something, but should I wait until I have all or near all of my energy and strength back before I get back to the training. Normally I would just wait but, IMSG as you all know is just around the corner, I just don't want to lose anything that I have built up over the last 3 months. I was thinking of doing a easy spin on the trainer tonight, if I fell up to it.  What do you all think. I just want to do well on my 1st IM, and by that I mean 13-14 hours, that would be well for me.

Thanks all.

go outside for a long walk. get  some fresh air and sun. see how you feel then. if the appetite is back and the food is staying down  then start in slowly and not too long. drink plenty of fluids.

you will not be doing anything physically in the next 4 weeks to improve your time. you just need to maintain (get back to where you were before getting sick). that work is done. now you have to stay healthy, mentally and physically.

Spend this down time checking equipment, going  over what you will bring, what you will wear, what will be in each bag (there are 5 you know), how you will put stuff on. go over the bike set up and make sure everything will be secure, the roads are crap you know. make sure nothing is flapping in the breeze.  go over nutrition plan, bottle hand off/placement.

There are lots of things you can do to help get you a good first IM and improve time. everybody always thinks they need one more century ride when they would benefit more from practicing T1 in the driveway a few times.

all the best

good luck

I heard somewhere its better to be a little undertrained than overtrained! The other folks here are right...most of your fitness should be set by now, and now is the time to rest, recover, and maintain. Practice transitions...go over bike with fine tooth comb...make up gear lists....finalize and order up nutrition/hydration products.

Went for a 65 mile ride this past saturday here in vegas (red rock loop, then potosi climb) and it snowed! Really?? Vegas in April?? Ok..it was a few flurries with some wicked winds going through red rock canyon..nasty day. Just a reality slap on how weather can be a total game changer come race day. Normally on this bike route I can pull 17-18 mph avg....saturday? 15 mph...and I was cooked.

Let us all pray to the gods, burn some sage, sacrifice some chickens...and hope to get good weather May 7th!

Great advice, I had not thought about going over all of that. I really need to do that. I will get myself super organized and then ease into some maintenance training. You all are great.

Firedawg I am thinking of doing the red rock loop a couple of times on Sat I think Ill be up to it by then. Let me know if your interested.

What's up Mikoy! I am doing RAGE olympic on saturday...thanks for the invite! Email me in the next week or so if you go out again...I may do the loop x 2-3 one more time before May 7th...

Weather forecast for vegas this weekend highs in mid 80's! That means SG will be around low 80's! That's what I'm talking about....might not even need a wetsuit! (yeah right)...

Alright good luck with the rage. I will most definitely be up for the loop before May 7th. I have your number and will give you a call.

Looks like the IMSG participant list has been updated. It's up to about 1,894 peeps.

Is it me or are all the ages off by one year?

Do you think they know this or should some one drop them an email.

Any chance we can get an update of that stat survey? Who did that, Transitionfour?

Good luck to all 

Hi tritobikeswimrun -- Yep, I'm definitely going to update it. Just pulled the list and stuck it in the database. No workout tomorrow night, so I'll update it then.

Some interesting stuff already. That 1894 is actually DOWN, from 1944 at the end of February. And, there are 51 new additions, so there must have been 101 that have dropped out. (Probably a lot of sad stories there, would be heartbreaking to get so close to the race and then have to pull out)

The ages are all off because the participant list shows age at registration rather than race age. Would be nice to get the actual race ages so we could figure out the exact age group counts, they'll be pretty close but not right on. Last year's list was the same way, so it is at least an apples to apples comparison.

Here's the big thing I saw on the new list : Lots of Pros signing up in the last month, including... JODIE SWALLOW! Current 70.3 World Champion. That's going to make the women's race really exciting. She's the girl who actually rode away from Julie Dibbens on the Clearwater 70.3 Championships course -- and she was on a road bike w/clip ons, while Julie was on a Trek Speed Concept. (Granted Julie had recently done IM World Championships and Xterra World Championships, so she wasn't exactly fresh). 

Also in the new signups: TJ Tollakson, Ben Hoffman is coming back, Mathias Hecht, Petr Vabrousek, and Heather Wurtele is coming back to defend her crown. Weiss was already on the previous list, so both of last year's winners will be back. 

Aaand, it's updated:

http://bit.ly/stgeorgeIM

Funny thing was that overall participant count went down by 50, but only by 3 women.

I was seriously considering it, and I saw there were some spots that opened up. Some other friends are doing it too. Really a perfect prep race for St. George. 

Was a little bummed about the swim at Showdown at Sundown. St. George will be my first open water of the year...but it was last year too, and wasn't so bad.

Good luck at Rage!

I'm 1337 which is awesome since that spells leet  

I'm starting to feel decent about my training and just in time.  110 mile ride today  (LittleCat, did Marshall Wall again) went well and 100 last saturday.  Swam 4000m continuous on Thursday.  If my run goes well tomorrow, then I'm pretty well set.  Guess I better book my flight!

I'm 1316, which spells "leib"...

So, now we can get total age group counts:

(posted here too if this formatting doesn't work http://www.transitionfour.com/2011/04/age-group-counts-for-st-george/ )

WOW we are close! Thanks for the upadated information!

I am number 92! That seems like a very very small number, so maybe that means I will be faster because I won't have more numbers weighing me down

You should be in great shape then for IMSG and for that top 10 in your AG

I just received an email from the IM SG race organizers with the "just released" schedule of events.  The schedule and email states that athletes must check in on Wed or Thur prior to 3pm. 

Is this normal protocol?  I can't imagine that everyone else has scheduled travel to arrive early on Thursday for a Saturday race.  Perhaps I missed some information when I originally signed up about the check in times...