Ironman Mont-Tremblant : Official Thread (Page 14)

Where else can you meet 3000 new friends who are all peeing on each other?

Haha that last 3000-3500th person is getting a lot of pee :-)

Note to self. Start in front of Jon.

Not like he stands a chance at beating me out of the water anyways...  

And the trash talk begins :-D 

I agree it did seem small.  We could be in water like at Lake Placid, that would open it up a lot.  The map seemed to show an exit created out of those huge plastic things, and I did see those off to the side at the beach.

Training question - there is a pay beach right at our swim start.  Are they expecting us to pay for the beach resort when we do our practice swims, now and on race week?  We entered at the boat rental area so we didn't pay, and then realized later that we were walking through an area where everyone had wristbands that showed they paid.

So, I haven't been there so I'm a bit blind in the view of it but when I look at a Google map satellite view, it *looks* like they could set things up pretty wide.  Maybe not if we start on land and have to run in but if it were an in water start?

Thanks!

They can have the start line out into the water as far as they want to go.  The lake is so big that it won't affect the loop at all.  So we could be in the water like at Lake Placid, and have a little swim out to the start like at Arizona.   That would totally work.

I would buy this.

Now the next issue is the finish. It is REALLY shallow at the finish. I hope the pack gets broken up, but I will be finishing in the thick of the swim and I can forsee a back up of people wading through the end of the swim where it is shallow. Heck, I remember grabbing rocks on the bottom and almost scraping my stomach on them with 100 or so yards left!

new goal! Hang just behind Kevin the entire race so I can photo bomb his finisher photo. Letting you finish ahead of me will be totally worth it!

Wow that's pretty crazy!  We can request a delay here though, can you?

That's pretty funny!  I hadn't heard of that start.

Just got back from a training weekend in M-T.  What a fantastic place for the race. It will be really awesome. 

The only thing we didn't do was swim.  We ran the course, biked the loop and both pretty fair - not overly difficult but have challenging sections.  Plus, it's just beautiful. I had never been before but I really impressed.  AND the roads are generally very smooth. The only really rough place was in Ste. Jovite where I am sure the crowds will be loud and rowdy so we may not really notice!

I did find the one downhill on the 117 a little scary! It won't be so bad on race day when there will be less traffic but even with the wide shoulder, the turn lanes and traffic going at 100+kph made me nervous and I really had to brace myself to stay aero and not hit the brakes! Very exhilariating though.  The climb back up not so much the same.

Sorry you had to ride 117 with the traffic. BEST part of this race is the closed traffic on the ENTIRE bike course. Its gonna be SO great!!!

I've been lurking here for awhile and definitely want to do IMMT 2013 my first). Curious to know how hard/easy was it to find lodging and when did you book? I'm sure it will be totally different next year as the reputation for this begins to build.

Pretty familiar with the area as we've skiied there over the years and have stayed at both the village and in the condo up the hill.  Ideally would like to book one of those condos again.

  Good luck to all and I'll be lurking to see race reports.

I booked a house off VRBO last November or so.  There were lots of options available at that time.  There are still options available now, they are just pricier.  I might be discovering those options very soon if my house deal falls apart - the house was sold to a new owner who isn't nearly as communicative. :-)

It seems like there are lots of options available even for late comers.  This time of the year likely doesn't come anywhere close to the number of people in the winter.  You just might end up staying a bit further from town if you wait too long.

That said, for every IM, it's generally a good idea to get your lodging fairly soon after signing up.  If you have to, you can cancel and rebook like above.

Here is the answer on what the swim start will be.

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/cgi-bin/gforum.cgi?post=4066346#4066346

Excellent, thanks.  Hmm.  I didn't see a "very wide start" area but I didn't really look around the much either.  I trust them. :-)  I'll be one of the 30% in the water.