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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Between family and friends that were physically here and those that were sending me text messages, phone calls, notes on facebook, emails and everything else, the 3500 race volunteers, the thousands of spectators that lined all 140 miles of the course, and the other racers - this race was one of the most supportive, positive, inspiring environments and races I have EVER been in. I could literally feel all the positive energy that everyone of those people was sending my way and it made the difference. This was a day that will definitely go down as one of the most memorable in my life. I can't thank everyone enough that helped make it a wonderful experience. Watch out LP. I'm coming back next year to see if this was just a fluke or if I really am on to something here!
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  • Comments: What a day! I toed the line with a real and honest assessment of what my fitness was and what I needed to do to finish the race. I merely needed to pay attention to my body and execute. I did to a T. In the days leading in, I figured that maybe I'd go sub 14 and beat the sunset. If I hadn't spent time on sunscreen, stopping to help a friend, or stopping to say hi to those who went out of their way to support me, I'd have been there. I wouldn't trade any of those minutes. I know this was long, but so is Ironman. Congrats if you got this far. My one piece of advice for any first timer looking for some: be honest with yourself and the amount of time you have for training. Unless there is a drastic and concrete change in your life or you really do have that much free time in your schedule, don't expect it to magically appear. There are only so many hours in a day and there are many more commitments in life more important than a race. The pressure of a race is all self-imposed
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Now I know why LP sells out so fast, this place is awesome!
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  • Comments: I felt good when I finished, and my coach ran over and she was going nuts, "Dude, you nailed it!!" She laid out a great plan, which at first I told her was too conservative. But it was dead on. They walked me over to the food tent, were I had some old pizza, then all of a sudden my whole body became very tingly, and it started to get much more intense. I stayed on my feet as I didn't want to sit down just yet, and after 10 minutes it didn't go away and kept getting more intense. I must have looked pretty bad because a volunteer came over to me and asked me if something was wrong. I told her the sensations I was having, and she said, "Let's go to med." Nothing exciting here, standard routine and after an hour I was limping back to the hotel. Well, except when my bud Matt K. got the bed right next to me, and one of the nurses spilled hot broth all over his boys. Matt is a riot and he made the best of the situation and got a bunch of good laughs out of it. I had an absolute
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I felt like I was well taken care of on the course. To each and every volunteer- you are an amazing person and thank you for being there for me. I know we all had a long day on 7/25, but you don't know how much it means to an athlete to have honest to goodness kind people being there and helping. Thank you, thank you, thank you. A note to IM newbies prepping for next year... This is not a race for "stuff". If you want SWAG then go do Musselman. At the finish line we got a t-shirt, medal and hat. I think I waited at least a half hour for one slice of pizza. They ONLY had ham subs (huh?? vegetarians like myself were scratching our heads), pizza, pretzels, fruit, water, coke.... it wasn't an all-you-can-eat buffet by any means. This is a race for the experience. Do the training. Don't make excuses to not train, but train smart. Keep smiling after you cross the timing mat. My photo-finish looks like I'm ready to look for another port-o-potty. Ha! Don't let anyone
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: A must do on the ironman circuit.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Glad I got an IM completed. Now know what they're about. What a cool event! If I do another, i'll shoot to break 12 hrs. Just wanted to be SURE to not BONK on this one and ran right on my numbers all day. Finished feeling good with no physical issues either...Just a little slow.
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  • Comments: Stayed with Sue for Race
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  • Comments: http://www.ironmanusa.com/results/results.php BIB NUMBER OVERALL PLACE TOTAL TIME LAST NAME FIRST NAME CITY ST/PROV COUNTRY RACE DIVISION DIVISION PLACE SWIM DIV PLACE SWIM OVR PLACE SWIM TIME SWIM 100M PACE T1 BIKE DIV PLACE BIKE OVR PLACE BIKE TIME BIKE PACE T2 RUN DIV PLACE RUN OVR PLACE RUN TIME RUN PACE HAWAII QUALIFIERS PENALTY 70.3 QUALIFIERS 2348 1634 13:30:48 El Yacoubi Acmae ITHACA NY USA W25-29 33/64 26 880 1:10:41 1:52 6:30 35 1808 6:58:05 16.1 4:59 44 1733 5:10:35 11:52
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Awesome event. WTC really does put on some world class events.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Lake Placid is the best Ironman out there. My 4th Ironman. 2nd Lake Placid.
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  • Comments: This has been the single hardest and funnest accomplishment of my life. I have moments where I feel like it was nothing, like anyone can do it. And then I remember all the early mornings I sacrificed and the long rides and lonely runs and hours spent in the pool. My house became a mess and I rarely saw my friends. As part of me is happy it’s over and I can do normal things again, a bigger part of me already misses it. It went by too fast. I will never again have my first Ironman. This has been a goal of mine since I was 8 years old. I lost sight of it through the many years of addiction. I thought I was meant for a life ending in tragedy. Now, I feel like my life has purpose and meaning. I feel like I can really accomplish anything I put my mind too. I wish I could impart that on everyone I know, especially those who struggle. Life takes work, goals and dreams take work but boy are they worth it. That 30 seconds it took me to round the bend and run down the chute are
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This was a great 1st ironman. The experience was incredible, along with the volunteers. The entire atmosphere during the whole week was awsome. Everyone was nice and friendy, it is an experience that words can not explain. Meeting all of these triathletes and friends of friends was on of the best parts. I truely appreciated the experience and support from my family and friends.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I am truly amazed at how far I've come. 2 years ago I had not exercised in 10 years. And I joined this women's boot camp with a friend. I thought I was going to absolutely die running 1/3 of a mile when I first started. And after a few weeks, Scott encouraged us to write out goals. He told us to write a goal that would shock the heck out of ourselves. So, given that until I started boot camp I'd never exercised in sneakers in my entire life, and that I had never rode a bike that shifted before (last one was when I was 8 and had a banana seat & streamers on the handlebars), I decided my goal was to do a sprint tri. Scott quickly jumped in that the goal wasn't big enough for me. So we upped it to an Oly. I went an bought a bike 6 weeks before my first tri. I started (largely unsuccessfully) attempting to run. In March 2008 I did my first tri. I walked a lot of the 10k run. I did a bunch more sprints last summer and it wasn't until July that I did my first tri where I ran the
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[140]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: Upon taking my shower after the race I discovered that I had a wicked case of monkey butt from the pad in my Desoto 400 mile bike shorts. I was rubbed raw in several places and had to resort to some diaper rash cream for relief. Had run 20 miles in the Desoto shorts during training with no problems, but they won't work for me during an IM.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
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  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Great race, love the course. Very challenging and beautiful. Great volunteers and the spectators were awesome never a boring moment. Again, I always remind to tri-geeks, It's all about the run.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Awesome race all around. I will do my best to do it again at least 1 more time before I die. It totally kicked butt...
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: What can I say, it was awesome! I don't have any other IM's to compare it to but it as a great experience.
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[144]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: This was the most challenging event I've every accomplished in my life, even more difficult than climbing Mt. Whitney last August (which led to a knee surgery in September 08). The 140.6 was not the issue; it was the bike time cut-off that made this mentally challenging. I finished the bike leg at 5:08 pm, only 22 minutes before cut off. Psychologically, that is a terrible constraint.
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[145]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I'll be forty-six in a month. I didn't sign up for LP 2010, but feel certain that I'll do it again. Can I do it faster? Yeah, maybe... :) or not... I love this race.
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[146]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This is a spectacular "must do" race. Lake Placid is beautiful, The organization is wonderful and the volunteers are above and beyond. I do want to take the time to thanks each and every volunteer that made this a "must do" event. My daughter has been mad at me ever since Saturday morning when I didn't sign up for 2010. She had so much fun, she wants to come back. I think we will come back and volunteer as a family and give back to those people that gave so much to me. Thanks
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

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  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I had a blast at this race - the volunteers were very friendly and helpful, the course was great - a real test, and the area was beautiful to spend some time in. We will be back next year - staying much closer to transition.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
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  • Comments: So incredibly and ridiculously excited that we finished! :)
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[149]
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: What an AWESOME experience. I couldn�t have done it without the fantastic support of my wife � not only on Race Day and Race Week, but throughout the entire year. She truly is and IRON SHERPA!!! She was out on the course (or tracking my progress online) all day cheering me on every time I passed through town. During the year, in addition to her job, she took care of our family and household while I worked 50-60 hrs/wk and then trained 8-12 hrs/wk. I loved every minute out on the course. I was expecting to have feelings of doubt and uncertainty at some point during the day, but when the cannon went off on July 20, 2008 at 7:00am in Lake Placid, I knew that on that day I would become an Iron Man.
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  • Comments: Some of my favorite memories from the race are seeing Dante and mile 14 and getting to stop and hug him and when I got out of the swim some tall man putting his hands on my shoulders to move me out of the way. I don’t know why that sticks with me but I guess most people in the race would just push me out of the way but he was kind and gentle and it made me feel somewhat protected for just that one second. I know weird but whatever. My real favorite memories came from spending the week with our tri group in our rented house. I have never laughed so much in my life, especially after the race, when we were all sharing our stories. LP was such a great experience because we did it with friends and the race was more about that than anything else.
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