Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 12)

Welcome! My first full also, and am also locked into the trainer until at least April - at least I can run outside, but today did it in 15 degrees and freezing rain... still beats the heck out of a treadmill.

Welcome to the party.  First full for me also.  Should be a good time with all us first timers. 

One of those people that love to swim at 5am j/k.  I swim at downtown Y at lunch usually as that fits my schedule pretty well.  If I recall Sunday mornings are not super crowded at the North Y I think Saturday they have swim team practice that takes up two lanes.  

haha, not sure if I love it but, I am starting too!  I really have no other choice if I am going to get in a swim, my schedule isn't allowing for much else plus, it is a great start to my day.  I will definitely check out the North Y this Sunday morning and see how it goes.  I did manage to get in a solid 2200 in this morning, lane to myself, it was pretty great.  

Tomorrow morning I am going to try and get in a 5 mile run before work, which means hitting the road around 0445, yuck.  

Have fun in the cold if you are running outside. I've been outside most days except for my speedwork day which I do on the treadmill more for safety than anything else.  I was on my trainer at 4:45 this morning for 1:15 ride.

Just in case hours are different for the Y's but I believe 9am is open time on Sunday for North Y.

SnowVols - 2013-01-15 2:52 PM Anyone else getting to run in a real nice filthy inversion?  Sure helps the lungs become tougher 

We have that going on here as well.  Air stagnation advisory through Friday afternoon.

I'm not sure I'll get a half in before CDA.  I do however foolishly have a 126 mile bike tour Michigan Mountain Mayhem to do on the 8th of June.  Not a ton of hills in southern Michigan so I picked this tour to get me mentally ready for the CDA bike course.  The tour covers 10,000 ft of rise in the 126 miles.  I am thinking of it as a great end to my training and then it's all taper to get to CDA.

We will also be riding in the MMM on June 8 and there will be 3 of us who also plan to do Coeur d'Alene IM a couple of weeks later.  We do the MMM to find some hills and because we really enjoy it.  This will be our 4th time riding this.  If you see a family on Cervelo bikes, please introduce yourself. 

I will be on my P2 so I'll look for some you guys and say hello. 

I'm in the same boat just looking for some practice hills before the race.  Great to hear now there are other from Michigan doing MMM and CDA. 

Chris

Welcome all yee like myself a first timer for CDA.

I hope everyone's training is going good.  I'm off to the great white north for some fun in the snow.  Have a great weekend CDA group.

I have a question too .

Looking at the Bike Course profile, there is a major hill (it seems so) at mile 18ish up to mile 19.5 and we do it 4 times on the course. Can we get a bit more details on this? How steep, how long,how hard?

thanks

If I remember correctly, and it's the hill you are talking about, it's approx a 6% grade.

As i can see, again refering to the bike profile, we climb it at mile 19 - there, 45 - back, 78 - there and 104 - back. There and back are a bit different but still alike

The hill you're referring to is called the "Mica Grade".  From some analysis made by the folks on last year's IMCDA thread: heading South away from town, the hill is 1.7 miles at 6% (maybe slightly more).  Heading North back into town, the hill is 2.1 miles at 6% (maybe slightly less).

Just ran a google search on Mica Grade, found an interesting link:

http://www.strava.com/segments/n-hwy-95-mica-grade-687289

It is a category 4 climb with one part of up to 30% grade, about 5 minutes of strugle X 4 times 

thats a good link to look at.  I was looking at the times and power output by the people. So I'm going to think about the climb more in terms of minutes it takes to climb vs the distance and grade . maybe that will not make it so miserable.

Nothing is anywhere near 30% grade. I'm pretty sure nothing is even 10% grade. This is a fairly busy highway, much of it newly built in the last ten years with a 65 mph speed limit.