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Race Reports for 2008

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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: NA Sports events ROCK! They treat the athletes great and make this day a perfect culmination of months and months of hard work and dedication.
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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: When it comes down to it, it's all about the family, friends, volunteers, spectators, and Sherman Ave. I'm addicted to the feeling I experienced finishing IMCDA '08; I can't wait to do it again in '09.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: So that’s the story of IM CDA 2008. It was a totally hard full out effort. The Bonnie of last year wouldn’t have made it to the finish line this year so I’m really satisfied with not only my completion but also my improvement year over year. I really felt like it took an Ironman effort to keep my head throughout the day and cross the finish line knowing that I had done everything I could to give my very best. A huge thank you to my family and friends. IM Training is taxing but I hope my more sane training approach this year resulted in you all feeling less like you wanted to strangle me by the time the race arrived. To all the amazing BT Peeps – I loved our group this year and it was an absolute pleasure to train, race and cheer for you through the months leading up to the race and out on the course. You are all rockstars! And finally to Preston. You are the love of my life and truly my inspiration. You encourage me to keep discovering my true potential. As we prepare to celebrate
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  • Events on time?Yes

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

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  • Comments: This has been such an amazing journey! I've had an incredible support system to help me through and I'm very thankful for that. I wouldn't have been able to accomplish this goal without them~ my husband,Aaron, my five incredible kids, BT community, my awesome training buddies, my family and friends! Ironman training is hard. It's hard on your body, your mind, your family, your friends. If you can find a balance between these things you are very special. My brother came to watch his little sister become an Ironman and when I finished he gave me a huge hug and said Mom would have been very proud. My mom passed away almost 10 years ago which can often seem like yesterday. I know she would have been my biggest cheerleader. As crazy as it sounds I spent many hours talking to her during training and I enjoyed those times. My Dad also came to watch his baby girl and I loved having him there. As for another Ironman....yes! (but don't tell my husband) I don't know when or where but
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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: Hey, this is an Ironman Branded Event. It does not get much better then this :) :) :)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: This was an awesome race for my first IM. Top Notch organization. Scenic venue with good weather. Incredible volunteers. People cheering you All Day Long. Having my family there to see the months of training payoff was great. Lastly, and Most Importantly: To My Wife, Carrie Jean - I want you to know that seeing you dash out of the crowd to run alongside me was the absolute highlight of my day. My finishing time doesn't matter ... my bike splits don't matter ... seeing how proud you were of me was the only thing that mattered. Thank You So Much. I Love You !!!
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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 experience to top off my IM journey! The area was absolutely beautiful and the volunteers and spectators were great.
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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 race was incredible to me... It reminded me that of the things I am capable of doing. It reminded me that I walked on legs that can do an Ironman and it feels darn good. I also got to meet a bunch of great Bters, the Couer d'Alene BT house was great. And all of the other BT'ers in Cour d'Alene are an awesome bunch.. next... AZ or KY... Whohoo!!
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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: The people of Coeur d'Alene are awesome. Every place I went to, I heard encouragement from the locals. If you're there doing the IM, then to them you're almost a celebrity. The location is absolutely stunning as well. I have to rate this race as one of the very best. NA Sports for all the grief they get really run a tight ship, and it shows. The little details are not overlooked, and everything runs like clockwork.
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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: Great first experiance. Will learn from mistakes and improve for IM Canada next year.
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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: Thank You to everyone ... the guys I ride with, the guys I swim with, my family and my wife and my Heavenly Father.
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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: It's Ironman...it's always good. The organization, events, volunteers, everyone...all just awesome. And the people of Coeur d'Alene are amazing! They get stoked for the race two weeks before it gets there. Can't ask for a better venue and better specators!
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  • Comments: I missed my girl Stacie lots :( But it was Stacie along with my family that got me through this day! THANKS!
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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 didn't believe I would ever do this distance again, but now there is no doubt another IRONMAN is in my future. A++++ race all around. Absolutely nothing to complain about other than a certain CT BTer not doing the race with me.
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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: The city of CdA and the volunteers were wonderful. I told someone I'd never do another IM again....I lied. It might not be soon because of the overall expense involved, but I will be back to an IM sometime. Sorry for the long RR...but it's a long race! :)
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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: The best thing about this year was getting to meet more BT people. Any time you can see a friendly face out on the course it helps. The Friday morning swim was enjoyable in that respect. I especially enjoyed time with Bonnie (leopard8996) and our Saturday mini-brick. I saw her multiple times out on the course. I'm taking a break from IM's for at least a year to concentrate on getting faster and being more competitive in my AG. Tri's are the best and rather then survive the long ones I want to try and win the short ones. By short I mean 70.3 and below, and by win I mean my AG. Not that I could excell at a 70.3 but considering how I felt after one swim lap, one bike lap, and one run lap of IMCDA I would place better, in my opinion, at the HIM distance.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: We truly had perfect weather. We had a little wind on the bike but nothing unmanageable. This is an excellent race and the people are simply amazing. The scenery is beautiful and the bike course is tough without being impossible. The run is a reprieve from the bike as it's mostly flat.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Thank you
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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 totally awesome race, it was so great to meet lots of BT peeps, and there were tons that I didn't get a chance to meet, a huge thanks to Ed for supporting me during all my training and for all the miles he logged during race day to be out there on the course to encourage me, huge thanks to my coach Will who knew how to get me trained and to the start uninjured, also a big thanks to everyone here at BT who helped encourage me, and a huge thanks to all my training buddies in VA Beach who helped me train for this journey
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[21]
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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: First, the fans and volunteers are what make this race an overwhelming success. I think this is probably the coolest and most difficult thing I've ever done. I was an emotional trainwreck leading up to the race and still am to some extent since it hasn't all quite sunk in yet. Also, the other BTers that we met were all great and easily the best cheerleaders on the course. The girl in short shorts with a cowboy hat and cowboy boots is a very close second though! Really, just the atmosphere of an Ironman is one of the most unique around. Walking around the expo in the days leading up to it I ran into Heather Fuhr, Paula Newby-Fraser, Heather Gollnick, Desiree Ficker, Viktor Zyemstev, Greg Welch, and others. At the end of the day, Adam (Gearwhore), Scott (sbreaux) and I went to watch the last 1.5 hours of finishers. There's just nothing else like it.
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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 made it a point to have fun on this race. I danced with a few people, hi fived anybody who put their hand up. Thanked all volunteers and everybody who said I was doing good. Made a point of stopping and thanking a child in a wheelchair who came out to watch..breaks my heart. It was a humbling experiance to be passed by so many people while you wait for the great bike techs to fix your bike. with out them I probably would have finished a lot later. I love my new Cervelo Team Soloist. I am considering a name right now but have yet to think of one. I absolutly loved the race. Lots of support from the locals and the Volunteers were the greatest. I had a blast. Thank you to all who yelled my name. I WILL DO ANOTHER ONE!
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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: With this being my first Ironman I did my best to stay within myself for the day. The support on this course was beyond what I had imagined and made for a fantastic day! Will there be another Ironman? HELL YES!
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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 huge new PR for me. It was a awesome race!
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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: The Clydesdale times and category results aren't up yet but when they are put up I'll fill in my category placings. Of course I'm biased, but I think IMCDA is the best there is! Comments I hear from out of towners seem to confirm this as everyone loves it here. The friendly people, the stunning natural beauty, and the awesome, awesome volunteers make it a fantastic race. I have my registration certificate if I want to sign up for next year. I'm going to volunteer at IM Canada also to get a slot up there. So now I have to decide if I want to do 2 of them next year! Whew! We'll see. Thanks to all you BT'ers who stayed up late on race night and kept track of us out there. You guys rock!
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