Ironman Kansas 70.3 : Official Thread (Page 16)

If the water is too warm and you want to wear your wetsuit, they will allow you to wear but you will just be ineligible for any awards.  Also, you will have to start at the end of the swim waves.  They will create another swim wave for people wearing suits and you start last. 

That is what they said last year anyway.

Thanks for the info harleyclone.

I sent an email to the athlete services coordinator at IM World Headquarters about the status of the 2011 Athlete Guide.  The response from Kristen Stantz was as follows:

Thank you for your email. The 2010 Athlete Guide is very similar to the 2011 version which will be posted in the next day or so. I am very sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. Feel free to email me with any other questions.

See you at the starting line!

So, it looks like the 2011 guide will be posted this weekend. 

I e-mailed them as well.  Here is the response I received from Kristen:

"Thank you for your email. The 2011 Athlete Guide will be posted within the day. Feel free to email me with any other questions."

I have erased this post from BT since it is bad juju to post weather reports more than 10 days out from the race!

Weather will be perfect.
Weather will be perfect.
Weather will be perfect.

The 2011 Athlete Guide is up.

And Lisa, Amen.  No bad weather juju please.

Double post...

Nothing to see here......

I would be willing to bet it will be "wetsuit legal" come race morning.

Remember last year? The day before the race at the Expo they announced over the PA system the current water temp was 81 degrees. Coincidentally, a number of vendors at the Expo were selling legal speed suits - and they all coincidentally sold out within the hour.

Then come race morning, magically the temp is wetsuit legal. Huh.

@ Lisa

I just looked at Army Corps site and "Water Surface Temp" as of June 1 was 75.  Dumb question, but this is the water temp right?

Latest weather. Fairly humid and warm. A little rain during the run may be a blessing. Anybody else getting nervous?

Isolated T-Storms

High 85°F Precip 30%

Please see Lisa's post above.

Too soon to worry about the weather forecast. 

The forecast will change everyday this week, I won't put ANY faith in the forecast until Thursday or Friday.  I have as good a chance to win the Powerball as they do to predict the weather in the Midwest 6 days out.   

Chance favors the prepared.......

For my run Saturday I intentionally ran when it was forecasted to be the hottest (between 3 and 4) for my run to help prepare "mentally" for hot weather running.  Was only 40% RH but it was around 93-94 degrees.

If it's hot, ease off some on that bike because the run will be tough, especially the second loop.  Hydration will be key and don't wait until race day to start hydrating.

Agreed.  It's time to stay out of the heat.  I have made that mistake in the past.  I thought I was acclimating and all I was doing was wearing myself out when I should have been tapering and resting for the race.  I am not going to make that mistake this time.  I am starting the tapering, hydrating, and watching the food intake.   I am praying for mid-80's, that would be nice compared to the my May race or what we had this past weekend.

My son came down with an stomach virus over the weekend.  My biggest fear rght now is that I  will catch it next.  It happened to my last October.  I caught it the morning of the that race.  Praying for good health.

Last minute question --- being I'm from NYC, can anyone tell me good stores in Kansas City or Lawrence for triathlon gear?

I'm contemplating buying a speed suit / swim skin and don't have time before I leave tonight to get to any stores in NYC and not worth the expedited shipping for UPS to send to my hotel..

Question about bike pumps.  I know they said there will be a few in T1 come race day, but if we are checking out bikes in on Saturday, for those who have been there before, was there ever an issue getting a pump to top off your tire?

I'm ready to get on the road...leaving early Friday morning.  Did my last race Saturday(a 54 mile bike).  My tire blew right as I was taking it off my car rack like 12 minutes before the start of the race.  That sucked.  Also, what was worse...and sad, a lady perished on the ride we did.  I guess she was coming down a steep him and either had and equipment malfunction or had some sort of operator error and he slammed into a parked Police Car directing traffic and died instantly.  So sad.