Ironman Lake Placid : Official Thread

Was wondering if someone started a thread yet!

This will be my first IM and I'm super excited!!

As for lodging...I know this year I was a volunteer so our accommodations didn't matter as much.  But we stayed at Cascade Acres about a mile from the oval.  It is a camp ground but if you have a camper you can stay there too. They didn't have a minimum number of nights and it was only $30/night.  It's a no frills location...but we didn't care.

Klassman, I would say if Kinetic hills were a 5, Then IMLP is a solid 10. At Kinetic this year you could ride fast enough down the hills and get to the top of next without climbing. I rarely was out of big chainring at Kinetic. At LP the climbs are not super hard, but you need to manage them as 2 loops will eat you up if you don't. That being said, I live at the beach where we have no hills. I do a few tide in Williamsburg and a few on the Blue Ridge PKWY. Every weekend is not required, just 3 or 4 times with one being long 80+ to get a feel for the hills. My main training was a once a week 2 x 20 min max threshold ride with a 30 min warmup and cooldown. So I would not stress the hills too much. If you have any good size hill in NORVA, you can do repeats on that which will also help. Just remember small chainring on first loop and save your legs for the 2nd loop and run. I would also advise if you can make it to LP for a camp (Fireman's) or any other that would help just to see Keene descent, if not when you get to the race, ride the Keene descent (mile 10-16) and have someone pick you up at bottom and do it again. I would not want to see it for the first time on race day. 

If you have any other questions please ask, I have done this race twice and others on this forum even more. lots of good info out here and there are no dumb questions. Good luck with your training. Are you doing any races next year as a prep. I am doing Kinetic Half and Eagleman again.

Jim

WOO HOOO SOMEONE STARTED THE THREAD!!
I'm all signed up and this is my first IM.  I have been spectating for years and supporting my peeps and finally it is my turn.  I know LP fairly well having been there many times on training camps and weekends.  LOVE IT...can't wait.

I will be staying with my peeps at Brooks Sunshine Cottage which is walking distance away from everything but back from Main Street in the quiet residential area behind.  From experience and other people's recommendations, the following places are good:  Spruce Lodge (on Sentinal Rd), Wildwood cabins/motel, Mountain View Lodge (right on Main Street...looks sketchy in lobby but rooms are quite nice...might be noisy during IM...I only stayed there in June)  In Wilmington North Pole Resort and Alpine Inn are recommended

I can't wait for the race next year. 

In the two weeks since the race I have been able to think of nothing but next year. For those who don't know I ended up suffering from major dehydration(15lbs loss, 4000mL saline through IV, kidneys failing) on the bike at this years race and ended up nearly passing out at 3.5 miles into the run and getting pulled from the race. 

I am currently scheduled for ACL replacement surgery on 8/23 (tore it skiing back in December). With all the training I've been doing I'm hoping for a very easy and quick recovery so I can get back to training early.

Good luck with the surgery, how long will you be out? At least you are getting it done now and will have time to recover and get back into IM shape.

Jim

I'm in for 2012 as well 

This will be my 1st IM for me and I'll stay at High Peaks Resort. I'll try to do a family vacation as well  with my wife 

I'll be using Be Iron Fit.  I plan to follow it very closely with the exception of long rides, I'm concerned that the long rides are not quite long enough so I'm going to bump about 6 of them of to century rides.

I did an IM in 2010 and followed one of a Matt Fitzgerald plan from the Essential Week-By-Week Training Guide.  That worked very well for me but I did the same and upped the distance on about 6 of the rides to centuries.

I'm in, too!  This will be my 4th IM, first LP.  I'm staying at the Town & Country Motor Inn.  I'm excited to be doing LP and looking forward to getting to know everyone over the next year

First up ~ IM #3, IMKY on Aug 28th.....gulp, just two weeks from tomorrow!

good to see the 2012 thread live and rockin!

i'll be watching next year, as my wife jen will be racing as well as my brother!!

LP is magical....enjoy the build up to the event....as DC can attest, it goes fast.....enjoy it and remember the most difficult part is hitting the start line healthy......remember that along the way!!

good luck!

My wife and I are both in!  We volunteered in the BIKE area this year and had a great time.  We are having a hard time finding lodging though. Want to stay close enough to walk to the race.  Art Devlins is full and so are most of the rest.  Prices for most are astronomical. 

I have 2 ultra marathons to contend with before IMLP, so for now, I'm focused on those.  Hope that the ultra training will have me in fine shape for IM training, and at the same time, I hope I'm not completely burned out by then.  We'll see.  Will be my 5th IM, first at LP.