Ironman Wisconsin : Official Thread (Page 15)

Glad you enjoyed the course.  Send me a PM and let me know if you are coming down again and we could meet up to ride if you want.

half marathon was fabulous - then I biked 40 miles after

Have a great day

Nicole

Drink a beer and run 1/4 mile, repeat 4x. My friend did it at IMFL a few years ago, clocked in a 6:45 mile...and didn't win!

Or you can be tough like the aussies

He had to drink 4 beers and run 1 mile and he made it in 6 minutes and 45 seconds??

I'm in if you would consider drinking the beers and not running!

Walinda

I'm in 100 pct.

Very nice.  I need to get my GoPro out and shoot some training video.  

Dude...awesome video & thanks for the motivation.  The AC/DC really fired me and makes me want to throw some of that on my Ipod (been a while since I've listened to them).  Keep up the good work man!

Oh, and I LOVE beer as much as the next guy and would be willing to join you the day after IM.  However, I don't think I'm going to want (or be able) to run that next day.  So I will come for the beer, but not the run.  Unless somehow I find some magic in my old sticks.

I think I've got the beer chugging part down from my years as an engineering student.  Not so much the mile in 6:47 part.

Great video, although the sections where you are riding 20+ mph and are videotaping make me nervous!!!  I would total bail if I were to try that (for the slower swimmers and good cyclist, pass me with care on the bike course!!! - so far I've only actually taken myself out, never anyone else).

Let's here your totals!

May workouts:

 Bike: 15h 47m  - 204.19 Mi
Run:12h 54m  - 76.94 Mi
Swim:9h 56m  - 23300 Yd
Strength:6h 05m

I don't think I'm biking enough! I have the Trek 100 coming up though, I'm sure I will get some hours in that day.

Ill be out there early Saturday morning too. Gonna shoot for two loops. You can park on the street across from SBR coaching. It is right on the loop.

In Verona, sry.

May was off to a rocky start.  I missed a few days at the beginning of the month due to being sick and frantically trying to recover in time for a half marathon (didn't recover, but didn't finish too badly - 6 minutes off my goal).  I missed or shortened a couple of other workouts due to work, but overall may went okay.

I think in June I will be continuing to pick up the bike mileage and keeping the run close to where it is at now.  I have an olympic race coming up in June (17th) but I'm pretty sure I won't be doing any taper for it.

Happy training!

Started off strong but wound up with a calf injury so I took most of this week off.  

S: 13532.00 Yd  - 4h 24m 38s
B: 497.65 Mi  - 26h 52m 40s
R: 123.41 Mi  - 15h 35m 05s

Shoulda rode ten more minutes so I could have broke 500 for the first time ever. Oh well, next month hopefully...

okay, another course question for the locals or the ones that have raced before.  Is the decent on Garfoot road closed to vehicle traffic?  I was riding the course last night on the computrainer (real course video) and notice that a lot of riders were taking the shortest route around the corner (i.e., riding on the wrong side of the road  - there was no yellow line, so I supposed technically they weren't breaking that rule). 

I think I would feel a little better about that decent if there were no cars/trucks on it.  it looks kind of scary!

The road is not closed.  In fact, I don't think many roads are officially closed on the course except those coming off of the Beltline (John Nolen Drive).  Having said that, I haven't experienced a car on Garfoot during either year I did this race.  There aren't spectators on the descent of Garfoot because people are moving so quickly which limits the traffic.  There are MANY cars on Midtown due to the sub divisions and specators which has been a source of frustration for some.