Ironman Louisville : Official Thread

Anyone plan on doing one of the trainning camps offered for IMKY.  I'm signed up for the PlayTri camp. 

http://www.playtri.com/camp_louisville.php

You live right near me...I'm in Algonquin and workout at the LTF there.

Is that the same weekend as the Cardinal Harbour Half Iron?

As far as I can tell, the date for Cardinal Harbour hasn't been set yet: http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=139650

I hope to do the July 26th ride that timdude mentioned. Since I might have a scheduling conflict on 7/26, I'd also be interested in another course run/ride.

Hey Steve...my sister and her boyfriend (also Ironman fanatics) live in the area...have you heard of Jen Noie or Brad Moore?

Till what?

Oh, you mean till IMKY?  Hmmm, is that 258 days counting today or like from tomorrow? 

:-)

I figure my semi-official training period will start in March.

Thanks for bumping this thread up.  I was beginning to think IMKY was the red-headed stepchild of the IM races or people were gun-shy about posting about it. 

~Mike

moabrunner - 2008-12-14 8:25 PM

Jake1008 - 2008-12-14 7:04 PM Yeah, it's my "don't be TOO lazy" motivation right now. ........should I get that good parking spot?.....oh Ironman in 258 days, we'll take the far spot. (cold stone will be still be there if we take a few minutes longer, right!)

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Between the bad weather and the holidays I feel like just laying around and watching reruns of Matlock

 And drinking those oh so good winter lagers...

I have been slacker central since IMAZ last month. I am giving myself one more week to screw around, eat crap, stay up way to late and not do much of anything. Tomorrow night I am going to a concert and probably having a "few" too many beverages.

A couple of Christmas parties later in the week and then time to try to figure out how to lose about 40 pounds so those hills don't kill me too bad.

2008 IMKY Entrants List:  2644

2009 IMKY Entrants List: 2988

% Increase:  13%

~Mike

IMKY 2008 Numbers

2,644 registered 

1,975 starters

669 DNS (25.3%)

1,793 finishers

182 DNF (9.2%)

DNS + DNF = 851 (32.2%)

Net % finishers:    67.8%

You can do the math based on these numbers.

I hope people will look at these numbers and realize that making it to the starting line is 90% of the battle.  An IM journey is about the training...the actual race is cake compared to the preparation.

~Mike

I think you just did all the math!