Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 10)

Donwah, I have a coach.  I usally give him my racing schedule and he adjusts my short term and long term racing plan accordingly. I am one of those guys that is better told what to do so I don't have to think about it.  I get so mental with the numbers that I don't even use a computer on my bike.  I don't want to know how fast (or slow) I am going.  sounds crazy, but it works for me (long race or short). 

I just did an adventure race this past weekend.  highly recommend it to anyone that is thinking about it.  I am doing Tough Mudder in early December, half marathon in Disney, a local sprint in early April, St. Anthony's end of April, and the IM CDA.  3rd time at IM CDA and certainly hope the new bike course is still fun.

Someone corrected my math, and the lake is only 50 square miles.

That means I need 50 million solar pool rings to warm that lake up.

I think you need sun also. Where do you plan to get that from?

Love it!!!  OWS yesterday and lake was 58*ish.  Felt fine but I am on board with your plan to warm up CdA for June!

Same here.  I've been doing much more while marathon training than the first 6 weeks have on plan.  I look at it as structured recovery.

Yeah, I'm curious about this as well. I'm not doing CDA2012, but definitely thinking about doing it again in 2013. So I'm just kind of lurking around your thread until someone hears something WTC announced the St George run course change months ago. Still the old course on the website for CDA.

~Hello!~

I am joining for IMCdA 2012 Conversations! 

~Carla

Welcome.

Hi everyone.  Joining the thread as I'm about to kickoff my training for Ironman Coeur d'Alene - It will be my first.    I'm using the IronFit plan.  Glad we have a forum like this to share ideas and traning over the next 7 months. 

Jeremy

Welcome Jeremy!

I like that a lot of us are using the Be Iron Fit plan.  It will be fun to compare notes as we are doing the same workouts each day/week.

I'm considering tweaking the plan by moving the long run from Sundays to a weekday, as some of my training partners do an ows each Sun AM before a recovery ride, and I really like that.  Since the longest run is 3 hours and the majority of the runs are in the 2-ish hour range, it wouldn't be too hard to fit into a weekday.  But I'm not sure exactly which day to put it on... and I'm sure the plan was designed with the LR being on Sun for a reason.

Thoughts? 

Still relatively new to tri's, and more importantly, actually following a training plan (only ever followed one for my 1st marathon this past May) and my only thought is, because pretty much all races are on Sunday.

HEY!  Another Jeremy using Fink's IronFit for IMCDA!  We'll make quite the pair!

Just a reminder everyone...30weeks from race day starting tomorrow!

don' t worry about changing the days around. Most likely it was put there because most people can do the long runs and bike on the week end. I know that I do a long bike on Saturday and a long run on Sunday. I work during the week and it is dark by the time I get home from work. I don't like running at night in the winter because most of the time the snow or water is starting to freeze.

Yep, here we go.  First week of official training and I get a  3 1/2 day business trip.  Let the schedule juggling begin!

Good luck to everyone starting Finke (or other 30 week plan) tomorrow!

Thanks mark.evans and ballyard for the advice on the training plan.

I tinkered with it a bit yesterday, trying to fit the long run on another day, but for now, I think I'm just going to leave it the way it is and see how it goes.

I have an awful cold, so today being a rest day is much appreciated!

Day 1 out of 210 - here we go!

for what it's worth, when I trained for my first ironman (IMCDA 2006), i used to do my long rides on Saturday and my long runs on Sunday.  I had a coach and I just did what he told me to do.  It made for some very long weekends.  I did fine that year, but we ended up switching up my training schedule and moved my long runs to Thursday morning and it made a big difference for me physcially and mentally.  I know there are some that like to run on tired legs and feel it prepares them for race day.  I felt like it beat me up too much.