Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 119)

You guys arriving on Friday - I did the same thing last year.  I recommend registering first thing when you get there because you'll be standing in line for a bit.  The banquet is another easy place to catch up with people if you don't make it for a morning swim.

Did the CDA loop twice on Sat.  The temperature was up to 70, but when riding in the sun it felt like 85!  The water is warming up.  I jumped in after the ride to cool down. 

I will try and make it to the BT swim, where is the meeting point? The moose?  I don't know where that is.

This is the last thing I read last night before going to bed.  Thanks for the laugh! Congrats on the sweet peak weekend you just pulled off.

It's going to be fun Monday morning pointing at all the people I know from here on the KQ list

I'm using tribike as well. In the athlete guide it said something about picking the bike up in an area next to transition.

Tribike Transport Procedures:

• Drop off your bike at a local partner shop (fully assembled, minus your pedals).

• TBT will pick up your bike as-is and drive it to your event.

• When you arrive, pick up your bike, just as you left it, next to transition.

• After your race, walk your bike over to TBT directly from transition, drop it off and forget about it until you get home.

• TBT will deliver it back to you.

Chomping at the bit and hard time focusing on work... Anyone else feel that way?!

To make things worse I pulled a calf muscle running up the boat ramp after a cold water swim (how lame is that!) tri relay, and now I can't run for a few days (hopefully! - this ol lady don't heal like she used to!)  Everyone stay healthy and minimize as much risk of injury as possible.  It made me crazy and emotional being this close to the game!  Thank goodness for the bike!

Can't wait to meet the BT athletes that have inspired, motivated an helped train me though out this journey!  You guys ROCK!

Work? What's that? 

Yes I am a total scatterbrain these last few days/weeks.  I'm so ready to just get out there on the course!

Sorry to hear about the calf strain!  It's such a bad time for injuries right now, even if they heal by race day they can really mess with mental focus.  Stay healthy everyone! 

On a nice positive note, I'm thinking that I may have figured out the cause my mysterious leg pain: my running shoes!  I hadn't tried a new brand/model in 6 years, and the ones I switched to initially were giving me all sorts of problems.  I wore a different pair yesterday and suddenly felt GREAT!  Hoping the change wasn't coincidental.

As for the group swim meetup: add one more to Friday morning!  I'd love to meet all the other honey badgers out there.

Now I am definitely finishing!

leopard8996 - 2011-06-06 3:55 PM

lmscozz - 2011-06-06 3:53 PM Sorry about the calf.

Anyone else having thoughts like -- I'm so excited about this, I can hardly wait and then Holy crap I hope I'm ready to do this and then What was I thinking, an Ironman, really? Maybe that's what you mean by scattered thoughts. I'm definitely looking forward to meeting you amazing BT athletes.

I'm going to try and get my son to make some honey badger signs for us. I think a smile and chuckle will be welcome and perhaps necessary from time to time.

Love it! Keep an eye out there will be a lots of Honey Badger signs out there Any funny HBisms can be posted here or sent to me for inclusion.

I can already tell I'm going to expend additional energy laughing to much on this course! hahaha. I am SO EXCITED about all of it, but the thought of a bunch of Honey Badger signs all over the course fires me up (with laughter)---ahh, can't wait to get up there.  Looks like taper for me doesn't really start till next week, still a pretty solid week this week--though not quite as long of a weekend workout. Only a 65/6 brick on Saturday and 12 mile run on Sunday. So I suppose it has sort of started! (you know you're training for an Ironman when...)

I'm in for the Friday morning swim.

Is moose #5 where we were talking about meeting up? (here is the link to the moose walk in case any of you want to add it to the family's agenda http://www.coeurdalene.org/mm/trail_map.html)

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YES! That's the Moose! There is also a big flag pole there too (I think), but there are easy steps down to the water. This is also a decent place for spectators to watch the swim, but they need to be prepared to grab their spot early! It gets crowded!

Oh- and Kikizen, glad I could make you laugh last night. As for your comment--well, that would be nice, I'd put money on WaterDog before me...there are some ringers in my AG coming out to this thing! We'll see how the day goes!

Just print off a HUGE honey badger picture and glue it on the board!!!

I'm up for the swim too. 

Get well and stretch the calf like 6x a day.  Lots of heat/ice.  I hurt my back on Sunday when doing 20+ honey-to-do items.  It's not serious, but it hurts.  Ugh!!