Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 149)

You can stay on the couch (if they have one) or floor in my room at Motel 8.  I am only there Sat night, I don't think I will stay a second night, but not sure.

I am so looking forward to the CdA weather.  A nice 100 degree index for my 6 mile run and open air SMU masters class tonight.  Sucked.   

Best of luck to everyone.  I fly out tomorrow morning.  I'm solo until the family gets there on Saturday.   

Just finished another long day  of work, 33 hrs in so far this week and its only Tuesday. One more long one tomorrow and then its VACATION TIME!!!!

Safe travels to those already on their way!

Thanks for that offer (and the several who PMed me).  United (for which I have lots of miles) has no good flight times for me, and the cheapest I'm getting elsewhere with cash at this point is gonna drop me a thousand bucks for the flight.  And as much as I like you all, the CFO (Mrs. K) and I decided it's best to not make an emotional last minute decision to come.  So I'll be cheering everyone online.

Best of luck to everyone!!!!

Sorry to hear you can't make it.  Let me be the first to say that your presence on this thread has been very valuable to a number of us.  If you look back at all of your posts, it was obvious you truly live the sport and enjoy sharing your experiences with others.  The time you took to answer all of the questions (sometimes the same ones over and over), has better prepared a number of us for a very special day.  Thanks again.       

x2 ^^^

I personally feel a lot of gratitude towards Josh for providing us with solid empirically supported and well thought out wisdom throughout this build. Loads of other IM threads would benefit from having him aboard and he will make a great coach someday.

I wish great coaching was all you needed to be successful. The truth is for most of us, with or without good coaching and/or training plans, we do not know how we are going to fair on the day. We have to play it a bit conservative if we don't want to blow up. Others will push the limits and either blow up or be successful depending on what they define as success.

I have blown up at IMAZ in the low teen miles of the run for over cooking the bike (and probably undertraining the run). Thankfully I recovered ok my the later teens of the run but not in time to catch one of our captains, Brittney, who raced much smarter than me (no surprise, eh?). I learned from that mistake the second time around and shaved 45 mins. I hope we all can feel good about our days no matter what our goals are. I hope we can not make or overcome our race day and training mistakes. Take note of your mistakes along the way so you can target them the next time around if there is a next time for you. Savor every moment regardless.

See you all there!

So awesome!!! I will say, that is why I am back this year... felt some amount of "failure" not doing what I set out to do last year. You know what?? The more I trained this year, the happier I was with my results from last year. So that is a huge plus, no matter what, I no longer have that "shoulda/woulda/coulda" feeling -- I am proud of what I accomplished last year!! Back for more!!! I'm not throwing out time goals -- yes, I have them, but I'm not caught up in them by any means. I want to enjoy the day. I want to execute a smart race. I want to cherish my body and the hours of training behind me. I want to finish smiling. And then I want to get on with my summer with my family!!! 

I'm going to be at the Super 8, which apparently is further away from the race than I thought. I going to driving a dinky rental car, and actually I'm using tri-bike transport so I guess it just needs to go to their staging area.

btw: Something is screwy with the formatting on my end. Keeps trying to center everything, even after I apply left justify. anyone else have this issue?

Can you tell I'm being really productive at work today?

Re: Garmin and Garmin-swapping...

Last year I used my 305 on the bike and hubby's on the run. I didn't turn on my bike 305 pre-race (not exactly a fast cyclist and wanted to have all battery life I needed). I turned it on when I got to T1 and waited and waited. (Yes, I had it find signals the day before.) I grew impatient and took off on the bike. It took many miles to find a signal, but oh wel. 

When I got to T2, I turned on my husband's Garmin and asked my helper to set it outside of the tent to find a satellite. She gladly did, and then helped me get all set. Before I took off she ran and retrieved it and helped me get it on. Totally awesome!! Satellites locked in, ready to run!!

This year my 305 finally bit it a few weeks ago (not holding battery life for long rides, screen wonked out a time or two), so I treated myself to a new 310xt, which I am LOVING!! Don't plan to swim with it but will leave it on the bike and take it with me on the run. Yay.

Leaving town tomorrow and all I have done to prepare is get the dog's food ready for the sitter. Ha!!! Oh, and got the bike all ready to go. Meeting out-of-town BT friend for a run, kids have swim team and piano lessons, and life rolls on. It's time to start packing so I can stress out about it and worry that I'm forgetting things!!!

Safe travels to those on the road. Wheeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Have a GREAT race, B! (and yes, you are ALWAYS smart on the bike!)

and you WILL represent well, brother! Have an awesome race!

Thanks for the advice on Garmin swapping.  I know how frustrating it can be to wait for satellites sometimes.  When I ran Portland in October, between the buildings and everyone turning their devices on at once it took over 15 minutes to lock on.  Not that I think it will be the same in rural Idaho, but that's time you don't really want to waste.

Happy travels everyone!  I'm off for one more day of work, then home to pack.  We drive out tomorrow morning and will be rolling in to town sometime in the afternoon.  I'm really looking forward to the atmosphere of race weekend!

No long races for me this year but watching this thread sure does make me miss the logn course.

Have a great race out there everyone.

Second that!!  Josh has been an invaluable resource for this group, and particularly for me being an Ironman newb.  I adopted pretty much every single piece of advice he posted on this forum with very good results, especially on the run.  Josh: Thank you very much for your help and support!

Bonnie:  The Ironman/HB clip is awesome and totally hilarious!  Me and my wife (who's racing the Full Vineman in July) are watching it every night and end up in laughter induced tears 

And finally (I know, I'm a slacker) these are my bio/stats:

Real name: Davide (duh!)
Bib#:         1973 
Hometown: Sunnyvale, CA
Training totals:
   Swim: 145 mi or 25 times 2.4 mi
   Bike:   3775 mi or 34 times 112 mi
   Run:   820 mi or 31 times 26 mi

In retrospective, those numbers look just insane  

Good luck everyone!