Ironman Louisville : Official Thread (Page 10)

I think I am about at my breaking point with this winter weather and we are only mid January. We spent the first 4 days of the week not hitting 10 degrees and now have accumulated over a foot of snow in the last two, granted it has hit 20 degrees.

I think the cure is a nice long trainer ride on my computrainer with the IMKY real course video. Hopefully tonight I can get my butt kicked by those hills.

Is last year's athlelet guide still posted?  If so, I don't expect there to be much difference.  They are changing the bike course a little though because of a condemed bridge.  The aid stations were about every 10 miles +/- about a mile. 

~Mike

 in fact there is a youtube video of the bike course since they thought the bridge would be out last year,, a female pro rode the whole course and quite of bit of the ride is available to see..  

Here's a link to the course preview vidoes for anyone who hasn't seen them. There are 4 videos, that take about an hour to watch....

http://www.vimeo.com/1519405

Nice find.  And brings back good memories.

Just watched the video and was thinking.  Are we going over the single lane bridge this year or the optional route that was shown in the video?  The non bridge route adds a few nice little hills.

This is from the Athletic Services Coordinator - Ironman

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I'm out.  I hate swimming in wetsuits.

How's it going gang, dead of winter. Now's the time to be getting the chickens in a row for when the spring hits.

Training has been going much better for me and I am finally getting on a roll. How is it going for everyone else?

 I've been feeling pretty good lately.  I started training in Oct. and have missed days here and there...and it was rough over Christmas and New Years' Eve but I definitely feel like I'm making significant gains!  I'm loving life.  The best part is that I'm loving it right now and the weather is crappy (10 degrees today)...can't wait for some sunshine!

Had a horrible Holiday season training-wise.......after Jan 1 I got back in the groove, swimming 7-8K per week and riding the Computrainer at least twice a week (including a 28 mile ride on the vitrtual Louisville course last week), two weight sets a week and running at least once a week....but all in all I'm in that "O.K. I'm doing the work, where are the gains/losses" stage....but I remain committed to my plan and will be focusing more on my calories and adding more running in the next two weeks!

Paul 

As someone who hasn't really started yet, that is music to my ears!

That's about what I'm doing also.  But I don't think of this as training....it's just living a healthy life.  :-)  Training will start in ernest in the spring.

~Mike

I haven't even thought about training for IMKY,, however.. I did choose a 1/2 IM that I"m training for and will be done apx 2 weeks before my official IMKY starts. I'll  take a week or soof just fun training whatever I feel like, getting some stuff done that I won't be able to do when the training gets heavy,, like watching some movies, dinner with friends.  etc...  

so while I'm not really training for IMKY,, i'm training so I'll be ready to start training