Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 128)

I think he's already scared...  According to his website, he's racing the Philadelphia Triathlon on June 26th.  Unless he's super-human...races there, flies here, races here. 

How much to swim in the next two weeks?

In my opinion, especially if you've been a slacker in the pool in favor of more run and bike time, it's okay to do some extra swim focus during your taper.  By this point you cannot make any fitness gains in any of the 3 disciplines that will show up on race day, but in theory you CAN make an efficiency/technique improvement in the swim.

That's not a prescription to go log crazy pool hours and end up with some sort of rotator cuff injury... it's a permission slip to go get some personalized instruction and see if there is something mechanically wrong with your stroke that you might be able to instantly fix, and then practice it frequently (but short) over the next two weeks.

I'm thinking about running these disks at the race.  What do the Honey Badger's think?

AWESOME - Where did you find them?!  You guys have WAY too much money on your hands! 

Very COOL!

That guy was IMAZ in 08? I know I have seen the pics but I was there that year and don't remember seeing him. SUCK, they guy was classic.

Maybe just me but what is the word in red on the truck behind the bike? Sorta looks like the F-bomb to me. Honey Badger loves the F-bomb!

15step - 2011-06-13 4:10 PM Heres me in my kit, so look for this on race day. Normal me too. Also, the bike I have become very confortable with Just trying to decide if I should do a disc cover or leave it as is. Another thing: am I the youngest person on this thread?? Just saying

Your race kit pic didn't post.

And yes I think we established about 100 pages ago that you are the youngest person on the thread.

Any 18 yo lurkers out there want to make 15step feel OLD?

I just lost 2 toe nails.  That's really going to mess up my pre-race pedicure!

My avatar is me...but here's what I look like the majority of the time:

Oh, and I'll be at the Moose at 8am on Thursday and Saturday for swimming.  My family and I will be at the athlete dinner wearing blue tie-dyed shirts...mine will have a pic of a Honey Badger eating an MDot on the back.  I don't know many BTers in real life, so please come say hi!

I'm going to try to find some temp tattoo paper.  If so, I'll print out some BT and HB ones and bring them to the beach on Thu and Sat.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. T. ROOSEVELT

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PAIN - JUST LOSS OF FUNCTION. Maj. Clint George

I will have a blue Go tri top on the run.  I will have "no quit" on one forearm and "no pain" on the other in black marker.   I also may be the one on the side of the boat or road sucking his finger rocking back and forth yelling make the bad man go away!!!

Well done.  That's one of my favorite quotes and quite appropriate for the occasion.

Different kind of iron, but totally relevant.

The Iron by Henry Rollins

I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely. When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me "garbage can" and telling me I'd be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn't run home crying, wondering why. I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at. A spaz. I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy. I hated myself all the time.

Henry Rollins (Portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Banders)

15step - 2011-06-13 8:02 PM

kiki_zen - 2011-06-13 7:57 PM

15step - 2011-06-13 4:10 PM Heres me in my kit, so look for this on race day. Normal me too. Also, the bike I have become very confortable with Just trying to decide if I should do a disc cover or leave it as is. Another thing: am I the youngest person on this thread?? Just saying

Your race kit pic didn't post.

And yes I think we established about 100 pages ago that you are the youngest person on the thread.

Any 18 yo lurkers out there want to make 15step feel OLD?

Lets try this again

Nice shoes, Kid.  :D

How weird you posted this.  My best friend from grade school just sent me a written note with this quote and some words of good cheer.   

I'm wearing my lucky 70.3 hat, KSwiss top and DeSoto shorts....cause I want to rock it. 

You clearly need to work on your pre-race jitters.  Please stand next to me at the start of the swim.  Seriously...I think you could help calm my nerves. 

jackson61802 - 2011-06-13 9:01 PM

15step - 2011-06-13 8:02 PM

kiki_zen - 2011-06-13 7:57 PM

15step - 2011-06-13 4:10 PM Heres me in my kit, so look for this on race day. Normal me too. Also, the bike I have become very confortable with Just trying to decide if I should do a disc cover or leave it as is. Another thing: am I the youngest person on this thread?? Just saying

Your race kit pic didn't post.

And yes I think we established about 100 pages ago that you are the youngest person on the thread.

Any 18 yo lurkers out there want to make 15step feel OLD?

Lets try this again

 

Nice shoes, Kid.  :D

The Zoot TT 4.0s are going to be my race shoe too, but I'm not super happy about it. They just get to go to the show because I don't have anything better at this point.  I ran out of time and money trying to find something else. I know I'm going to get blisters and it really frustrates me.  I have shoes that work on the trail and shoes that work on the treadmill, but no shoes that are 100% on the road.

Sorry. Rant done.  It just sucks to know you are going to be in pain that is avoidable.