Vineman Full Ironman : Official Thread (Page 12)

That's a good list.  I don't bring quite that much stuff.  I wear a tri suit throughout and all my food is 2 bottles of infinit and 8 GUs. 

So tri suit, wetsuit, goggles, sunscreen, bodyglide.

Bike, helmet socks, glasses, pump, 3x CO2, 2 tubes on me 1 in special needs, handpump on the bike, aerobottle, water bottle, toolkit on the bike.

Running shoes, hat, racebelt with GU's in it for the run. 

So to chime in with everyone elses fatigue, I ran 4 miles today, felt good 7:30 pace and then came home and took a 4 hour nap.  Tapped me out, reserves not replenshed yet.   

Don't forget your bike shoes!!

Since I'll be spectating I'm planning to camp out at a good spot on the run course- any suggestions?

I'm thinking of setting up a little "BT Pit-Stop" and have a few things.  I'll have a super soaker if anyone wants to get sprayed), as well as some sunblock, TUMS, icy/hot, the stick, and a few other nice to haves   If anyone has any recommendations on what else I should have lemme know. I plan to make a BT sign so all the racers can look for me!

Awesome! Something like vasoline might be nice. I'll be looking forward to the super soaker all six times I pass you!

Whoa. I think at some point I might give up. OK, maybe not. But that is a lot of flatting. The debate in my mind was whether to come prepared for one flat or two. I think I'll go with two tubes, 3 CO2s, and the self-adhering patches that are in my tire irons. There'll be a support car out there somewhere if things get ridiculously bad, right? I've heard stories of people flatting twice during an IM, but I haven't flatted in the last 2,500 miles, and I ride what have to be some of the worst roads in the country. That said, I can't imagine how disappointing it would be to DNF because of flats.

I'm with y'all on the fatigue and motivation. Seems my body mostly wants to sit around and eat ice cream right now. I've also got my first case of saddle sores to deal with. Keeping it clean and well greased hasn't taken care of it, so I'm headed to the drug store for some Neosporin this afternoon, and I may swap out my Adamo for a regular saddle for a little while to try to take friction off that area. Anyone have any magic cures I haven't thought of?

Duct tape (the all-purpose product). 

Might be a good place for spouses/friends/family members to congregate too. 

A way for me to find you so I can sit with you!!!!!

Great!  I could definitely use some company since I'll be spectating solo. 

My mom will be out there cheering.  If you gentlemen get heckled by some random lady, say hello to Mama triOK.  Don't worry, she's harmless.

She loves coming to my races to watch "me" race.  

I battled saddle sores a few years ago.  I Googled a bunch of things and while this will not prevent them, Preparation H will help shrink them.  At this point, your training is in the bank.  Let the sores heal, before jumping back on the bike.

PBI - Sorry for crashing your thread, but actually there was one year, 2002, that Vineman partnered with WTC (NA Sports at that time, I believe) and was officially IM Vineman.  The reason was that was the year of the first, original IM Utah.  The weather was bad, and the wind blew all the buoys off the swim course.  The swim was canceled, but not until after they fired the start cannon, so it was chaos. 

They held up everyone coming out of the water and turned it into roughly a half distance duathlon.

Because of the chaos, they offered entries into other IMs - 50 to Canada, 50 to LP, 50 to Florida and the rest they partnered with Vineman for the one and only 'Ironman Vineman'

Sorry if I just bored everyone to tears....

No. It's an interesting bit of history.  Thanks for posting.

Question. I've done 7 tri's (sprints + 1 Oly) and can take my wetsuit off pretty quickly on my own.  How does a stripper add any value?

It'd only be the speed really.  Tough to be faster than just rolling on your back and having two people yank off your suit though.  I always get my suit stuck on my ankles/heel (and I've even put cutouts on my suit) so it helps me out quite a bit.

BTW, at Vineman, the carpet in T1, where the strippers typically are gets a little sandy/gravelly so if you use the stripper (and even if you don't), expect to get some sand on you (e.g. feet) which you may want to clean off to avoid irritation/blisters.

Also, sticking dollar bills into the clothing of the strippers would probably not be welcome, but a heartfelt thanks would be.

Just jumping in to say hi, I'm coming up for Barb's race the same weekend and may have a few spectators to add to the BT cheering crew. My husband likes the water gun idea and is already determining his "cooling arsenal" for race day.

I dunno...but I've done something like 20 tri's, I think (2 IMs) and I normally wouldn't hesitate at this point to let a wetsuit stripper pull the thing off me.  Definitely a little wearier and wobblier after swimming 2.4 miles than 1500m.  Stripper at IM St George certainly yanked my suit off me faster than I've ever managed to do myself.  OTOH, Donato had a good point about the narrow area and the sand where they'd be removing the suit at VM...there is that to consider.

I would say that Steve is 100% correct about the "pushy" factor (nicer word might be "solicitous", I suppose)...at VM, once you were at your bike in T1, you were left alone.  At IM St George, I had a guy hovering over me wanting to help put my wetsuit and swim gear in the bag for transport to the finish.  Both were point-to-point (two transition) iron distance races, but different approaches on the part of the volunteers.  VM is a bit more "DIY"...nobody tackling you coming out of the changing tent in T2 and slathering sunscreen on you.

Just to piggy back on Todd's comments on differences, the changing tent is quite small and you are doing most of your transition at your rack location that is typical at shorter distance or non-IM branded races.  Changing tent is really only provided if nudity is involved and not a main changing area like at full IM branded races.  There aren't bike handlers (i.e. you re-rack your bike yourself at T2).