Ironman USA Lake Placid : Official Thread (Page 149)

Monty, that was hilarious.  Very funny.

Like Yeats said, it's a whole regimen I have to follow.  At least three to four times a week I do the ITBS stretches to this day (for two years plus straight!!) still foam roll, do Yoga poses almost daily -- just google ITB Stretches or even go on youtube.com.  It's like a small part-time job doing all these post-workout routines, but this is what I need to do to stay injury-free and train at the volume that I do.  So the trade-off is worth it to me.

Oh, and as Kwin mentioned, I also have a tennis ball and a golf ball.  Start with the tennis ball.  Sit on it.  Roll it around your glutes.  If you find an area that hurts, bite down on a towel, and press the ball into that area and work it around.  It's 9/10 painful, but what you are doing is breaking up scar tissue and forcing blood into an out of the area which promotes healing.  Your IT Bands and Hamstrings are all attached to your glutes, which are attached to your hips, which are attached to your core muscles.  They are all attached to one another.  So if one gets tight, it puts strain on and pulls the others resulting in tight hamstrings, or a tight IT Band -- and a tight IT Band rubs against the bone on the outside of the knee which causes pain.  If you find a real stubborn area in your glutes, grab the golf ball and go to town.  It's self-torture, but it works.  Occassionally I pay my chiropractor and he does Active Release Technique on me.  Which instead of a ball, it's his thumbs breaking up the scar tissue.  He's got Thumbs from Hell!!! I often break an instantaneous sweat when I get A.R.T done.

The Good News is it does get less painful.  Or maybe my brain has just compensated and figured out how to manage the pain better?  I dunno.  But short 10 and 15 minute spells of pain are worth it to me to be able to train and race for hours on end pain free.  I'll stop rambling now.

"The bridge is gone and I hear that they will build a jump……just kidding. In all likelihood, the bridge will not be finished by race day. They do have another option or 2 that they can use. They would like to go out 9N towards Ausable and then go up 86 to Wilmington. Not sure if that is official."

I blew threw that entire case in 5 or 6 days!  I had zero problems with it either.  For me, there is very little difference between GE and Perform.  They're both pretty much both sucrose/maltodextrin/simple sugar and electrolyte drinks. "C2MAX Blend" is just marketing; all that hub-bub is malarky. 

I'm going to continue to train with Gatorade Endurance (I bought three containers of it after-all!) and then Race week hydrate with the PowerBar Perform and use it on Race Day.  I honestly truly see there being no problem switching right before as I had zero problem switching back and forth in training.  I also used three bottles of PowerBar Perform at Rev3 so I know in a Race Pace situation I'll be fine.  Now if there is CeraSport on the course, that's a whole nother ball of wax.

T-Minus 39 Days!

I know the Race Director and saw him briefly this weekend at LP Marathon (he's Race Director for that too) and asked him the all important question. It looks like we will be staying on Rte 9 to Ausable Forks then back to 86 in Jay. Told me some have tested it and have riden it faster than regular route.

I live 45 min. from LP, but have condo there, so will be up most every weekend for my own private training camp. Plan on heading up Friday afternoon. Swim-bike Saturday, Swim-Run Sunday. Weather permitting of course. All are welcome to join.

Monday night starts High Peaks Cycle Monday Night Tri's. Low key event and a good time plus lots of drawings and prizes.

Family Question:  For those of you who have brought young kids with them the week of the Race, what events (if any) are there to do?  I have a 4-yr-old and 6-yr-old and I'm arriving in LP Thursday.  Any suggestions of places to go, cool things to see and do Thursday afternoon, Friday or Saturday?  Any family-fun places nearby??  Zoo's, amusement parks, botanical gardens??  

Thanks Mike!!  So I got Friday covered