Best advise for Iron Man?

Not really advice exactly but my coach just said to me in passing before my IM last year, its just a well catered for training day!  

somehow that made it seem less scary/intimidating. Take the Ironman title away and its what you've been doing in training for months before hand. 

Train your body to go long w/o fuel. 

Mathmatically you cannot take in as many calories/hr as you are burning.  You might can bike 112 miles and live with the calorie deficit and you can might can run 26 miles with a calorie deficit but the cummulative calorie dificit of the s/b/r can bring you to a crawl.  I did a lot of my long bike rides w/o any fuel, forcing my body to use fat stores.  I went as long as 90 miles w/o any calories.  When I finally did start taking in calories on my long rides, I was awesome! 

Disclaimer:  Everybody and every body is different and this may not work for some people....but it sure worked for me.

~Mike

Lock in the nutrition plan.

Have fun!

JeepFleeb - 2008-09-05 9:28 AM

Gaarryy - 2008-09-05 9:00 AM
have some fun. Don't be all caught up in what you think your time should be if you have a perfect. Joke around out there.

CANNONBALL!!!

that was a great way to start off my day.

MR 1 & Done 

I have two bits of advise.  The first I got from a professional Ironman - Raynard Tissink at a speech he gave.  That was that there is nowhere to go from feeling great except down. So at those times when you think things are going fantastic and you could push it a bit more DON'T! Stick to your plan and keep it easy.  As they said above it is a long day.

And the second is my bit of advise - ENJOY IT!!  I put a plan in place that would suit the amount of training I had done (very little) and stuck to that.  I had time to savour the atmosphere, laugh with some of the spectators on the run and look around.  You have planned for this for so long, don't mess it up by not enjoying the day.