Ironman St. George : Official Thread (Page 11)

Beautiful large rental house in St. George w/2 spots available - Due to a recent cancellation of 2 "once committed" athletes:
http://www.vrbo.com/277482

reserved 5 days/nights (3pm Wednesday 5th, Check out by 11am Monday 9th)

Cost breakdown is $103/day for currently 4 ppl - gets cheaper as we get more ppl.
For more information and to make your reservations: Anca - 415.717.1549 OR email: "ancasira at yahoo.com"

jonmetz - 2011-04-30 6:37 AM

jls42 - 2011-04-29 9:24 PM

 

Good luck to all you St. George athlete's tomorrow!  I did it last year and it sounds like the weather is simialar compared to last year.  Hopefully the water is a bit warmer than the 58 degrees we had in 2010.  By tomorrow night you will all be IRONMEN and will have really earned it!  My best advice - take it easy on those climbs on the bike!  I will go back someday to take on that monster again, but I need to forget how tough the course is. 

Thanks but the race is not until next week

I just saw that - I did an open water swim in prep for IMTX this morning and thought you all were swimming as well - got home and logged in to Ironman Live to check out the race coverage, oh well, have a great week of tapering!

Hi All,

The house rental is no longer available.  

Good luck to everyone.

Anca

It is a week later than last year though, so you're forgiven. 

Thanks for the well-wishes, and good luck at IMTX!

The water temp. is up to 62!

http://stateparks.utah.gov/conditions/shsp

Yay!

And, the predicted winds were slightly lower than last I checked. 10mph, from the SW.

went to sand hollow today (3pm). water was 58* a foot deep at where the start will be. i doubt it will get anywhere near 65*.

the wind was howling, white caps like an ocean. the wind here can be terrible in the afternoon. it's a cold wind from the north now (locals said 'this is more like out winter, not spring') but is supposed to calm a bit and turn to be from the south by race day. that should warm things up a bit.

good luck all

Ok, so I got my bars on the bike and was able to get out on Sat for a quick 1 hour ride. The bars and aerobars worked well. The bars are a bit different then the last ones but over all I felt more comfortable. I just hope the comfort last for the entire 112. So I am good to go. I just hope and can keep my nerves down. Very excited and nervous about my 1st IM! It is only my 2nd tri ever.

Good luck everyone and thanks for all the posts.

Way to jump in head first!

What was your first tri?

Good luck to all you soon to be St. George Ironman. I'll be with you at T1 volunteering as a bike giver!  Anything special you want me to say as I give you your bike? 

I think anything other than "Why is your face so blue?" would be welcome!
Thanks for volunteering. Volunteers made the race last year. Was awesome.

Actually, one thing that might help someone... if they don't have their helmet clipped before they exit transition that can be a rules violation, so be sure they have it clipped. 

LOL, My 1st and as yet only tri was the 1/2 silverman last Nov. Last year after watching St. George IM, I thought I should do this and if I start right now I will have an entire year to train. I started training and decided that half way I should do a 1/2 distance to see how I was doing. I did not realize the Silverman was so tough, but it was local so I signed up. Well here I am a year later ready to be an ironman. 1 year from coach slug to ironman, what a wonderful trip it has been! See ya all there!!

Anybody else looking at the weather report and getting worried? 90 degrees and 20 mph wind with 38 mph gusts! At least the wind is looking like it will come from the south. 

I don't mind some wind, but 20 is a little strong. I did a race a few years back with 20 mph headwind for the first 20 miles. It is not a pleasant memory. But when we were finally headed in the other direction it was like riding in a vacuum tube. 

On this course we will probably have a lots of side and head wind coming out from Sand Hollow. It is looking like tail wind while climbing up past Gunlock. That I like. Then side wind from the top of the wall to Veyo. Head wind from Veyo back to town. So we will have to peddle hard even though we are going down. Beautiful.

The problem is that most of that stretch from Veyo to St. George really isn't downhill. Especially for the first 6-8 miles or so, lots of open and flat with a couple climbs still. When you get to the downhill, it is pretty steep, and you're going so fast it's not an easy place to relax. Then you've got more flat and a little climb before the final steep drop into St. George again.

Personally, I find that to be the hardest part of the course. The hill just after Veyo doesn't look as bad as "the wall", but to me feels worse--especially if you're climbing it into a headwind. It's the one area of the course where I have to just put my head down and "get through it". I think part of it is the mental expectation that the climbing is over when I hit Veyo, but it isn't.

Winds will probably still be calm on the ride to town from the reservoir, so that shouldn't be too big a deal. The Veyo-St. George portion of the second loop will be the crux of the ride I think.

Good advice!

Overall it's looking like awesome weather really anyway. Reservoir is warming up. Winds will be manageable I think. 

It's going to be an awesome day.