Ironman Florida : Official Thread (Page 16)

Arriving wednesday afternoon and leaving on tuesday.  Rented a 5 bedroom/5 bath house right on the beach that is about .75 miles from the race start.  Also, the run goes right by the house 4 times.  My family can sit in the driveway and watch us come by!  It's going to be awesome!

Is anyone doing IMKansas 70.3 or Branson 70.3?

I am going up weds and returning monday.  I will return to work weds.  Has worked well in the past.  My running is pathetic.  I won't hit phatknots numbers even in high IM training.  Maybe I won't go at all.  I'll never have time for that and I'm sick of being in pain everyday esp from a pathetic 2 mile run.

I think we will drive down from NY for the race arriving on Wednes and staying until Monday.  Like Kathy said, PCB this time of year is much more affordable compared to LP.  3 bedroom condo at Laketown Wharf less than 3 nights in a hotel in LP!  Much easier to bring family and friends!!!

Its about 1250 miles, which is probably 20 hours drive time.  We will leave Tuesday morning and get close to Atlanta and finish the drive to get to PCB early/mid afternoon Wednesday.  I could catch a flight from Rochester to PCB through Atlanta, but for an IM I like to have a lot of stuff available for the just in case.  Bike tools, spare parts, colder weather or wet weather gear (I learned my lesson at LP in 2008) so its easier to drive with what the airlines are charging for extra bags.

You might get a direct from Detroit on Delta (formerly Northwest), but my limited experience trying to fly into PCB (I had an employee I had to get there for a family emergency) it is not a big airport and it is mostly serviced by regional carriers out of Atlanta, but I haven't tried in a couple years.

SWA is available out of Buffalo, I have never tried them as I can get most places for the same price out of Rochester on Jet Blue.