Ironman Louisville

I did it last year as my first Ironman.  I had a great time and if I wasn't doing Coeur D'Alene next year I would consider Louisville again.  I think it's been covered in this thread and others as to pro's and con's of the race. 

One thing to note is they don't allow on-site sign up for that years athletes and volunteers.  It is all over the web and you have to pay immediately.  That means you don't have athletes and volunteers grabbing the vouchers and limiting the amount of on-line slots.  Depending on ones point of view that may or may not be a good thing and I know that NAS has changed their policy around this going forward.  However, I do think it is one of the reasons there are still slots available on-line. 

If you have questions about the race, venue, etc... feel free to shoot me a PM and I'll try and answer them.

Matt

Well that was uncalled for.

Louisville is my favorite IM race!!  (oh, wait... it's my only IM race so far.)

I'm with Aaron.  I liked the challenge of the course.  I feel more accomplished having done the swim without the crutch of a wetsuit.  The challenge of the bike course is the "rolling hills", especially if you're from part of the country that doesn't have rolling hills within 100 miles to practice on.

It's a well run event.  It's also fairly spectator-friendly.  But don't back down from the challenge.  If it were easy, it wouldn't be Ironman. 

Tempe AZ is not exactly a tourist Mecca either.  :-)

I think it is the best-kept M-dot IM venue secret. 

~Mike