Lone Star Triathlon Festival - Half Iron : Official Thread (Page 2)

Good luck to everyone.

This will by my first HIM distance.  Getting a little nervous but excited at the same time.  I just hope the weather is great.

This is my "make up" race since I was unable to race Longhorn this year.

Ah, so the Navy crew is making their way down again huh. Last year the shirts had a nice manly pink on it, and it made me laugh...I'm biased though.   How many squids are doing the HIM?

What should you expect--well, it's late April, so it might be fairly warm, the water is in a bay, so shouldn't be choppy, but should still be wetsuit legal.  Bike is flat,  but could be quite windy, or not...but good chance of some windy.  Run is 3 loops and flat, but again, the heat might kick in as well.  It could also be fairly humid.  But, expect GREAT support. Endorfun puts on a super race, so you'll be totally taken care of throughout the race. 

If I could change something about my first HIM, I would've said more bike fitness and/or understand pacing better.

Go Army !!! 

The Few, The Proud!  Go Marines!  (Britt & Gary)...

What would I do differently for my first HIM?
More bike for sure... change from a volume approach (50-70 mile moderate rides) to 40-60 mile higher intensity sessions.  Get nutrition on the bike dialed in earlier in training and stick with it - no changes what so ever.  The run will benefit from this.

other than that one change, i agree. bike for sure.

Edited by fattyfatfat 2009-12-16 8:56 AM

Me I would have run more frequently and built up my run durability which would have meant not crashing 4 months before the race. For my first HIM I was overtrained and about 3-4 weeks before that race my bike power just left me..it was so hard to understand at the time. I ride with power and my watts kept dropping week to week.

I think this is a common thing amongst triathletes... and it is more detrimental to race day performance then most realize.  I would rather go into a race 10-15% under trained than 1% overtrained.  A solid plan with sound recovery worked in will certainly breed success much better than just volume+intensity 'gotta get fit' type of workouts.

Hey KathyG ~ I am not saying that is what happend to you... just using the overtrained aspect.  There are several reasons why we overtrain.  ie compensate for injuries early on, missed workouts getting forced in, not following a good designed plan...

I had a coach who put together my training.

Since I crashed in June, I didn't get solid run and swim training for 6 weeks then 2.5 months until my HIM in early October so he had me ramp up my running quickly which made my bike suffer.

I do much better with consistent training building up volume very gradually.

This will also be my first HIM. I feel very lucky to have the race only about 20 minutes from my house. With all the pressure (self imposed pressure), I'm glad I don't have to worry about traveling.
Best of luck to all if have entered, especially first timers like myself.

 trust me even though we have 19-20 weeks to go,, I'm coming in waaaaaay undertrained for this one 

Sweet!!!

Looks like a new website and name change here:
http://www.ironmanlonestar.com/index.php#

So how's everyones trainging going?  Snow has mostly melted here in DC so hopefully back to riding outside some.

I thought I heard all of Texas was under a winter advisory, is it snowing?

I started working with my new coach two weeks ago so my training is balanced, I'm doing s/b/r on a consistent basis and feel more like a triathlete again..it's good.

Roads are pretty yucky here so mostly painful interval trainer rides for me.

Swim lesson today see if I'm making progress on improving technique.

Doing first 5K in over a year Friday to set my running zones.

Obviously, I'm not racing, but training has been going well....Still trying to decide what I'll do in 2010.

Running 3-4X a week, with a long run of 1:30. Riding the Computrainer 4X a week, with a longish 2 hr ride on the weekend. Been doing some intervals, and sustained hr long rides.

Swimming, eh.....

It's coming very soon There was concern it'd be lost during the holidays

Swimming is highly overrated ; )

hehe, btw you ever going to run any races in the DC area?  Wife and I did Mooseman last year, Lonestar and Black Fly this year, lol we are following you around the country.

Officially signed up.  Now if this white stuff would stop falling from the sky I could get out and train.

Happy New Year's everyone!

May your 2010 be a rewarding, healthy and fun year~!