Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 103)

This was my favorite line from that article..

You should also go for run or do something else to start raising your heart rate and core temperature before heading into the water.  Looking at the water and cursing it will not help warm it up.

Well there goes my #1 tactic

Agree that we're all getting a bit too worked up about it, and I can't say anything about Coeur d'Alene specifically, BUT it has been WAY colder than normal all spring here in the Pacific NW.  The number of days we've even reached 60 can be counted on one hand.  

Not only is the air not warming the lake, but the snowpack is also sticking around FAR longer than normal.   I read that the North Cascades Highway is still digging out from under something like 65 feet of snow.  So, hopefully this streak of nicer weather sticks around for the next month, or we may be in for sub-60 degree water.  Ugh.

If it's hot go fast so the wind you create cools you off.  If it's cool go fast so your effort will warm you up.

Rode 120 today at a meager 16.5 mph average speed.  But that includes 2 stops for gatorade refills and 2500 feet climbing.

Crushed the last 15 at 21 mph!  Wanted to run after, but am still laying off until this weekend due to achilles tendonitis.

Me on the couch last night at about 9:30.   A casualty of a few too many 3-a-days.   The wife said I didn't move from that position for almost 2 hours.

I don't follow a plan, so I'm kind of winging it, but my plan is to keep running 6-7 days a week (mostly in the 4-7 mile range), keep up my 5x20mile trainer rides during the week, and get at least 2 days in at the pool a week.   I want to do one long run of 20 miles in the next week or so, but most of my long riding is done...so I'll try to get a couple 50-60 mile ride in on the weekends.

Either this weekend or next I planning on doing a solo 70.3 mock race.   1.2 down in the bay (water is still pretty cold), 56 miles down the coast, then have the wife and kids meet me to take my bike while I run the 13.1 home.

I know I can do the distances no problem, but I think having one sort of long day will be a mental boost.

I have a few final big rides left.  Looking for 4 100+ mile rides in the next couple of weeks, starting with the SD Century on Saturday.  My new job doesn't start until June 1, so next week will be pretty serious training.  I need to do some OWS, too, since my swimming sucks.

Jackson: love the pic!

Here's one my bf took of me after a long training day.  I was out...and I guess my little pig ninjas were, too.  What you can't see is pig ninja #2 snuggled up to my booty under the covers:

(Hank and Ash nap.jpg)

Love the napping pics.  I wish I had one of me a few weeks ago.  I went over to a friend's house and proceeded to fall asleep on their couch while they were playing Guitar Hero.  Talk about tired!

We are having our first bout of spring sunshine here in the PacNW, so I took today off work to get in my long ride.  113.7 on the bike followed by a 4 mile run.  I'm much slower than I would like to be, but I felt GREAT.  I think I finally have my nutrition dialed in!

But...I got super duper sunburned.  Like so bad that I'll probably blister.  Stupid stupid stupid.

Wow, that was me last week. The forecast called for low 70's cloudy with a chance of showers. Turned out mid 80's and pure sunshine. My back and shoulders were fried cause the sunscreen I used wasn't a "sweatproof" kind and I had a hard time sleeping last Saturday and Sunday because it hurt to put pressure anywhere against my skin.

Aloe is your friend!!

Aw, dang.  Sorry that happened to you.  Wishing you the best for a speedy recovery.

Wow sounds almost identical to what I did, except I did it 3 weeks ago.  I'm still skittish about running.  I did a little bit of run/walk and the walk breaks seemed to help keep it stretched out.  But I'm mostly just biking and swimming right now to play it safe.  It aches a little on the bike but I don't feel like I'm making it any worse.

I posted earlier in the week after coming back from training weekend in CDA regarding the water temperature... and while I was lucky and had a few warmer days in CDA, it hasn't been all that sunny there this week and the temps in Seattle have been higher than they've been in CDA... Translated.. it's warm enough and rainy enough for teh snow pack to melt (and it was a pretty brutal winter in Idao) , but it hasn't been really hot enough to have a significant warm-up in the lakes.  Either way I look at it it's going to be a cold swim.

To prepare... and see how I could do in a really cold-water swim.   I hopped in a local lake by me and did a 1.2 mile swim.  Water temp was 54.  I had a full wet suit - but no neoprene cap, gloves or booties.  First ten minutes or so was pretty chilly, but I warmed up acceptably and was able complete 1.2 miles in just over 30 minutes. 

Toes and fingers were numb upon exiting, so it will be interesting to see how I'll manage hopping on the bike with numb toes... but the swim wasn't bad at all ....