First HIM - Having Major Doubts!

Totally normal, breathe, relax.  Though I didn't look at your logs, what's in the barn is in the barn.  Nothing more you can do at this point.  Just go out there and try to take it smooth and not kill yourself on the bike. 

I posted a very similar thread before my first HIM.

first..... breathe.    Heh, you should have read my logs before my first HIM this year.  I was a basketcase.  So much so that Xan penned the little paragraph below, which I have adopted as my personal mantra.  And it is so true.

I took a quick peek at your logs.  AFAIK, you're ready, and you'll do fine.

Jen,

You will have TONS of support to help you get through the run.  We will be there for you in any way shape or form we can be to help you.

You are doing this, and you are going to be great.

Hang loose.

(was that good?  cuz I was also thinking about going with the "you can't do any worse than I did at PP last year when I swam into a fricking dock and gave myself a concussion" angle but I thought this way sounded more positive.)

Yea I vote we table any discussion of your silly antics and wife-beater tanktops until a more appropriate venue comes along.  Especially since I held back on all the "melted chocolate gu on my backpack in transition that created a huge swarm of flies" talk.

Taper Madness is definitely the order of the day.

I did take more than a casual look at your logs. I am not a coach and am definitely a rule breaker when it comes to training but it seems to me that you did really well with your Friday Long Runs and Sunday Long Rides. I especially liked that you followed most of your long rides with some sort of a transition run.

Your tuneup races definitely helped maintain some good intensity also.

Just sit back and enjoy your taper and everything will be fine

Check out my major freaky session before my first OLY....

We've all been there.

I think you will be fine. You are just a little wigged out after a strange experience this weekend. And hey, no matter what happens, you will pass me on the run!  Just be nice, OK?

I read your logs...you are ready...I'm in the same boat as you my first HIM is on Saturday....the swim should be a piece of cake - I'm surprised you don't have gills after all the swimming you've done.

Like me, I've noticed you don't have that many long bike rides in. That's not a problem, just remember to spin at a high cadence rather than push really big gears so you can save your legs a little for the run.

Also, try (only if you are comfortable doing so) standing while riding every 20 minutes or so for a short time, it will help you use other leg muscles and, along with the spinning, flush out the evil, foul badness that muscles like to hold on to.

The run is the run, I'm planning to endure it and I know I will. You have the training, you've done the mileage, you should finish this upright, smiling and ready for your next one!

Don't forget good nutrition and better hydration on the bike. Eat and drink what you have practiced. 

It's all good. Get lots of sleep two nights before the race, cause the night before you won't! 

You can do it!

You've trained, enjoy the day and do your best.

I volunteered at two HIM in last month...my suggestion is to relax and have fun; don't push to hard on the bike so you save something for the run, be sure you eat/drink on the bike so you are fully hydrated and getting calories in,  most regular folks walk some on the run if you need to do so, smile and enjoy the excitement of doing your first HIM....it helps to let go of time goals and aim to have the most fun possible that day.

I hope to do my first HIM in September...I'm not sure I can due to a bike crash...and not sure how my seperated shoulder will take the swimming. 

I'll be looking forward to reading your RR...and learn from your first HIM~

Jen,

1) You are trained and ready to go.  The mileage has been put in and confirmed by this community

Have Fun!  Really.  Just have fun.  The goal of a first HIM is to finish.  And you are going to finish (see #1).  We all have time goals, etc. that put pressure on us, that we don't need on race day...so just have fun with it.  You will do awesome.  There are so many people you know on the course and the venue looks to be awesome.  So enjoy the day.  I mean, really just take it all in.  The bikes, the fans, the crowd, the athletes, the zoo, the out and back where jonathan will be running by all of us!

Really.  It will be over before you know it...enjoy the day.

Of course, this was meant to motivate you and make sure you have a good time.  But it is also something I keep telling myself.  Heh.

Yep.  I think all of us want to hear the same things said to you in this thread.  We're all a little nervous, Jen.  But I know one thing for sure, whether I set the course on fire or DNF I'm going up there to have fun and my BT brethren will be there for me either way.