Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 118)

Hi All,

Just checking back in.  I've been following your posts all week.  And, yes, it has been with mixed emotions.  If you missed the big news, I'm the unlucky guy who had a spectacular solo bike crash last Saturday and injured myself badly enough to effectively put myself in the DNS category.

Glad to see that everyone has made it to Taper Time.  I know it's a good feeling.  I wish I was there.  I feel like I've lost 6 months of fitness in the past 7 days.

I started my Therapeutic Yoga today and I'm already feeling better, both physically and mentally.  As things get crazy on this forum over the next couple weeks with everyone's Taper Madness I'll try to find time to update you on my progress, even as I follow yours.

Best regards,

Randy Cantu

AKDude-no gatorade swims anymore. Powerbar is the new sponsor. We are all meeting at 8am Thurs and Friday for some practice swims by the moose?

Dont be knuckleheads and run PRs now everyone. Hay is in the barn. Money is in the bank. Tri to show some restraint!

Wow, gone for a couple of days and I missed about 5 pages worth of banter.

3 Weeks from now the bike course will be busy!

I am wrestling with IM Texas in 2012. Swore I won't sign up for another IM til this one is done but everyday want more and more to do IMTX next year.

DO IT!!

20 miler done this morning--didn't try to push hard, just run it comfortable, and it went super super.  Definitely a good confidence builder!

Oh, a mental training tip I use--sometimes my right quad gets this odd dull pain in the last few bits of a long run. I'm convinced it's 75% mental (not sure where it comes from, but it comes) and if I imagine ice melting it away--pain goes bye bye.  This was something a sports psychologist taught me, so thought I'd share the wealth. Please ignore if you're in the W30-34 AG... (j/k)

Well, my plan had been to fly in Friday morning and drive from Spokane right to registration. With that notice in the athlete guide (and other places) saying you must be registered by Friday 4pm or no racing, I changed my travel plans and will now fly in Thursday. Will just have to explain things to my boss at my new job. A group of us have been flying back and forth from Louisville to Madison pretty much every week for 2 months. Every single person has had at least 1 major problem, and some people seemed cursed and can't seem to get back and forth with out 2-3 things going wrong. So I freaked out last night and changed my reservations for plane, hotel and rental car for a day earlier. Surprisingly easy to get everything done, though I had to fork over another $230 to Delta. Race anxiety down 2 points, job anxiety up 0.5 points. I can live with that.

Hope to make the group swim Friday am.

At the end of my 20 miler today, I looked in the car mirror and discovered (as expected) that I was covered in dead gnats. There were swarms of them all over the route (a 5 mile loop around a lake) today---but I didn't realize HOW MANY were on me. I just looked at them, wiped them off, and said gross, but whatever if it's nasty, cause the honey badger would probably just eat them and say "protein" because he's naasstty....

Look at what you people have done to me....

I'm struggling with my day off.  Did about 20 honey-to-do items.  Practiced changing a flat on the ever so hard Hed Jet wheels.  Floated in the pool.  Officially took over the guest room to start planning for "the trip". 

Oh, also made a wish and threw a penny in a wishing well...... 

Let me know more about the swims.

I will try to get my team to join.  Would love to meet the wacky bunch from BT

They had it at IMTX--I'm sure they'll have it at CdA too.

Finished my week out strong. Totals:

Swim: 10000 yards

Bike: 143 miles

Run: 51.5 miles. My biggest week of running ever. Felt awesome with zero injuries or even soreness.

So my epic weekend is in the books. 

Friday- So I decided to bike from just outside of Grand Rapids MI to South Bend IN.  Went to inflate my tires and notice a giant tear in the rear tire probably from so much trainer time. Grab another tire off my road bike and we are good to go...unitl my next door neighbors house where I stopped to talk to her and noticed my clincher was not completely clinched in the back so back home I go. Okay we are off. My google maps in hand with 73 turns and 112 miles exact to go. 6.5 miles in it has me turning on a dirt road. So I figure head south and a bit west. Next up a road under construction so I have to back track a few miles. Finally start heading south on a road that I know will take me a while. Then go gas station to gas station to keep finding my way as google had me going 30 miles on a dirt rails to trails trail. Finally after 8 hours and at least 15 stops and 120 miles arrive in South Bend.

Saturday- Wake up cracker early and run the Sunburst Marathon. Mile 1 I could tell it would be hot an humid. Kept it easy the whole time wanted to be 4hrs ish and ended up 4:15ish. The course was very IM ish with lots of turns and out and backs seeing everyone a lot. They first red flagged the race due to heat and then black flagged it around 11:15 AM shutting it down completely.

Sunday- Woke up and went to swim finding my sleeveless wetsuit with a giant rip in the back. Swam 4300 and finished my weekend Ironman  with a combined time of 13:35

One more long ride and let the taper begin!!!

Thanks for checking in and letting us know how you're doing.  I know it's tough to do when you can't do the same things everyone else is doing.  I hope your healing is progressing and you'll be back out on the roads soon.