IM Wisconsin Watching Thread (Page 16)

Goodnight, everyone!  Great job, today everyone!!!

Thanks for watching us guys and for cheering us on. From what I heard through the grapevine, djdavey sorta blacked out on the bike and woke up to some lady trying to wake him up in the ditch and spent some time in the medtent.  Seems to be ok now, but I am sure we will  get some news from him.  Thanks again.

Good morning, everyone!

I just read this whole tracking thread, and, it makes one feel real great to have you BTers out there online yesterday (with nothing better to do ) and tracking those friends of yours and sending us some great energy!

It was a pretty hot day out there, which made it brutal at times for some us.

I saw DJDavey when I came around on my first loop of the run - he was standing and looked somewhat okay.  He was having some physical issues and pulled over on the bike to rest some, then tried to take off after the rest and swerved right and then left and fell off the bike and crashed.  He did blackout, and a lady found him sometime later on the side of the road.  He lost a lot of weight, too, from dehydration and such.  He was hauled off, but is doing a lot better now.

Mndiver dropped a lot of weight and didn't do too well.

Birkierunner had physical issues, too, and had to DNF.

Jszat, Schmize, Tripletmom, and I were a little under the weather, too.

I forgot my prescription sunglasses off the table after the swim, but some very kind volunteer hauled azz down to get them (from inside the Terrace, down the Helix, to swim area, and back up the helix, then went to the bike - that's almost 300 yards at least to run), which is why I had a looooooong T1.  If I would've remembered to grab my glasses, I would have shaved off almost 8 min.  Then, sometime on the bike course, probably around mile 80 or so, I had gastro-intestinal issues, which tacked on another 30 min. on the bike time due to stopping at all the port-a-potties.  It wasn't a great feeling.
I didn't feel better until around mile 10 or so on the run when I all I would intake were water and pretzels.  It did help.

I saw all the BTers that I knew, and just had fun with all that was around - I even danced to SuperFreak outside Camp Randall with some partiers, then danced with the Ford Ironman girls by the mile 10 timing mat, and whooped it up with the crowd on State Street.  It was a blast!

I did catch Amyjo, Kristin, and Whizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz with about 4 miles or so to go.  They were still in terrific spirits.

One of the best things was sprinting the final stretch, to be greeted with a finisher's medal by the one and only Trixie!

Thank you, everybody, for keeping us in your thoughts!

And, with a final parting, I send you off with an EEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW!!!!

You guys aren't going to believe this but I just logged on to the race report section and not a single IMWI race report has been filed.  I can't believe that they would have gone to bed last night without filing a race report.  Come on athletes, it's 8am there.  Quit being so lazy and give us our race reports!!!

In all seriousness, great job yesterday guys.  As someone who doesn't do well in heat I was very impressed with your performance and fortitude.

Big thanks to Artemis for seeing the rest of the folks in last night!!! 

CONGRATULATIONS to all of you out there...it was hot...and we're all SOOOO very proud of you!!!!