Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 12)

Last 100+ bike ride

Last "long run"

All went better than I thought! Feeling good, nothing hurt "that" much, and in good spirit!

Hope everybody had a productive training weekend 

Century ride on SAT, and 20 miler on Sunday.  What kind of volume do you folks have planned for the remaining time?

I'm thinking (note swimming is way off due to shoulder issue)

week of 10/2:  S 2-3X, B 200 miles (Long Ride 100) , R 45 Miles (Long Run 20)

week of 10/9:  S 2-3X, B 150 miles (Long Ride 75) , R 40 Miles (Long Run 18)

week of 10/16:  S 2x, B 100 miles (Long Ride 55) , R 30 Miles (Long Run 12)

week of 10/23:  S 1X , B 2X - 50 miles (Long Ride 25) , R 12 Miles 

Probably another 100+ bike ride and 2.30hr run or so. I will try to keep the same volume on the swim until the week before.

then:

week of 10/16: 3hr bike (fast pace), run 2hr

week of 10/23:  2hr bike (fast pace), run 1.30hr

Wow, that was some week you had last week.  Don't know if its typical for you but two long bricks ending an almost 250 mile bike week and 60+ mile run week.  I feel very undertrained now!  Hope your not in the 45-49 AG!

 edit --- looked at your logs, some impressive training.  you should smoke B2B!

I hope you're referring to the HIM swim.  Tide should still be incoming as the full swimmers (7AM start) are reaching the dock.

thanks for the info... not to worried about the swim (or bike or run) I will finish (baring something bad happens - fingers crossed). Just not thrilled about 1690 people in front of me... I hate being one of the last out of the water. Although, it does make finding my bike in T1 rather easy.

Worst for me is the swim (always BOP), next bike (MOP), and best is run (MOP+)... so I will be playing catch up all morning.

Thanks!

Posted the pic so fellow BTers could say Hi if/when they see me in transition or out on the bike course.

Was planning to go with my Neuvation R28aeros (great all-around wheels, BTW) but ran across a sweet deal on these near-mint 2009 Jet 6's.  Only have a few rides on 'em, although that includes a century yesterday in 10-20mph winds.  Really like 'em so far- stiff, aero, & smooth riding with that wide 23 rim.  Not the lightest (~1800g), but that's no prob for flat tri.

As an adult onset swimmer, I find myself BOP on the swim as well.  I was grousing about this to a friend of mine and she said something like, "You think that's bad!  Try coming out of the water third and having the Entire Field pass you on the bike and run!"

I was just looking at it.  It looks like T1 and T2 may have both been reconfigured from last year. 

Starting to feel excited/nervous!

Sweet Jesus...

We are almost there :/

+1

The cover photo of the swim start is awesome- even a little intimidating in black & white.  Almost like a pre-battle scene from an old war movie.

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B2B swim course report...Lvis and I just got back from swimming the course Monday & Tuesday. We were looking over the Finish first and we were lucky to bump into Kristen http://www.withoutlimitscoaching.org/kristen-smith/  she was giving an on course swim lesson with  Tara who is is priming for the full. Very Knowledgeable and gracious with her time in sharing tips and pointers and explaining the course. Good luck to her student Tara and Kristen has a lot of folks in the race who I am sure will do well. Thanks for the help

We started on the beach day one and hugged the docks, during the race of course we will go middle channel. Lots of sighting and we had a decent current not real fast just enough to keep you from never being still. We tried to make the turn where Kristen said the squigly man boat will be and this is the area you gain  or lose time...The current will still try and float you right, pick a channel marker out and go then another channel marker, then another the extra sighting will make up for any lost time taking a poor route which is very possible remember the dotted line on the map and you will be fine.

Me 1:15 lots of sighting hugging docks ect...I am not a good swimmer 46 minute Half at OBX

Lvis 55 minutes he is a good swimmer I think he was 36 at OBX

Day 2...wow what a difference a day makes , The wind was north west  and we swam into a full foot of chop...keep your googles under your cap we were bouncing. With the big chop Jon decided to swim easy and stay next to me...my plan then was to swim hard almost race like, it seemed like we had stonger current but also we were getting slapped with some nice chop and getting bounced around . I Loved it! It felt like an ocean swim. Thank God we knew the course well by now as sighting was tougher and I was grinding out a good hard swim.

I swam 1:02 which is amazingly fast for me.

At all cost either swim the last half of the half course the day before the race or if you can't...make your way to the finish so you can see the last few turns and angles if you don't know the course.

I swam the Half last year and those last few turns and angle are a little tricky especialy if your seeing it for the first time on Race Morning. Good Luck Kenney