Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 16)

Yep, training in the mountainous region of Chicago for it as well. Did the same last year in prep for CDA. The climbs are not really that bad at all. As long as you're getting your cadence up and can spin you'll be in great shape, or if you're generally good at hammering in big gears you'll be fine as well.

Longest climb I had last year was probably about 100 feet, though at a 13% grade. Repeated those sessions a few times but doubt it did a whole lot in prep for CDA.

Seems a lot of folks (myself included - last year) got pretty pre-occupied mentally with both the climbs and the swim. Just my 2 cents but as long as your sticking to your plan (which includes big gear and fast spin sessions), and have invested in a neoprene cap, swim booties, AND earplugs for swimming you've got yourself covered.

Anyhow, we also lucked out with some pretty amazing conditions on race day last year..so I certainly have not been through the "worst" swim at CDA so take my opinion with a grain of salt..or maybe a saltstick?

Brian your advice is spot on. Just work your training plan and you should be alright on CDA. Worst comes to worst you walk the hill and run the other 24 ish miles.

February is in the bank, lets see your your totals (play if you want each month).

Swim: 10h 18m 15s - 23900 Yd
Bike: 21h 13m 53s - 428.62 Mi
Run: 16h 38m 54s - 113.09 Mi
Strength: 3h 35m
Weight loss 7 pounds (unfortunately I still have a ways to go).

Happy with the month didn't miss any workouts.

I'll start doing this with ya once March is in the bag. Have been pretty consistent the past few months but not much in the way of actual tracking monthly totals.

I'm flexing my off day to today (annual ice fishing trip with the fellas....on that note how strange is it to think that IM training and Ice Fishing exist in the same time spans..anyhow..I'm yet to take a sip of my first coffee this AM so that may not be that mind blowing haha). It'll be different having an entire Saturday off.

Looking forward to recapping March with ya.

I'm way too new but didn't start tracking til mid February on a log so only have less than half your total time. One thing I can't do is track distance on my bike as I am on a trainer. Michigan weather has barely let get outside for a few runs let alone bike.

Swim 5 hours
Bike 10 hours
Run 9 hours

This is my first IM and trying to figure this out with work, family, and life keeping throwing wrenches into it.

Wisam

Sure, I'll play....

February's totals:

Swim: 11h 35m 39s - 31700 m
Bike: 33h 12m 44s - 903.51 km
Run: 19h 47m 23s - 206.92 km
Weight Loss 4.4lbs (another 15 lbs to go)

It's very Canadian to use imperial measurements for weight and metric for distance.

Swim: 9h 34m 15s - 36300 YdBike: 23h 30m - 417 MiRun: 10h 23m 30s - 79 Mi

Feeling good. Almost all of my workouts were quality workouts. Two short bikes that were unremarkable. 14 mile run already in the books for March. IMTX is looming...

Swim: 5h 34m 36s - 18800 Yd

Bike: 17h 35m - 319.88 Mi

Run: 9h 02m 43s - 64.76 Mi

Elliptical Training: 1h 35m

P90X: 2h 35m

Swim: 7h 54m 19s - 23000 Yd

Bike: 20h 01m 27s - 382.34 Mi

Run: 12h 17m 14s - 88.33 Mi

Tom

Mike, just wow that would be over what I have planned for my longest peak training week, at least for the run. Do you have a race coming very soon?

Sure, I'm in. My numbers don't look normal since I've been dealing with Achilles tendonitis for the last couple of months. It meant February running was almost non-existent and biking was very limited, but swimming was good. I spent the majority of my time cross training on the elliptical. My hope is March numbers will start moving towards a more normal IM build.

Swim: 33,150 yards; 8:57
Bike: 152 iles; 9:30
Run: 19.5; 2:56
Cross train (mostly elliptical): 94.2 "miles"; 14:31
Strength: 3:10

Attempting first Ironman (last one was cut in half due to weather )
With Team in Training!

Here's what we had for February:

Swim: 7h 30m 43s - 19800 Yd
Bike: 21h 43m 40s - 278.19 Mi (setting weekday spin class as 15 miles)
Run: 17h 19m 20s - 97.39 M

Event goal: hoping to finish by 15 hours , stretch goal: 14 hours

Edited by emilyemily 2014-03-02 3:47 PM

Thanks for the encouragement! The hills at Tahoe had me worried I would have a really bad day. This is my first full iron season; I decided I'd better take another year of training before I went after that bike course at IMLT... although it is two hours from the house :/ I feel much more comfortable with the 4,600ft climbing at CdA compared to 6,550ft at Tahoe. I still get a challenging course, plus I've never been to Idaho so I can't wait

Ah, makes sense. Sounds like a good plan to work up to LT. As an added bonus, you don't have nearly the elevation to deal with in Coeur d'Alene as you would with LT.

Late to the party, but that is par of the course for how February went for me. Had one good 10 day block in there, but between some travel and illness, was not a great month for me.

Swim: 6h 20m - 16500 Yd
Bike: 12h 28m 47s - 215.53 Mi
Run: 10h 25m 21s - 66.89 M

Heck yeah, I wanna play! Fun!

Swim: 32950 yards -- 11:06:00

Bike: 317.05 miles -- 18:00:00

Run: 178 miles -- 24:14:36

Great job to everyone out there!

Wow, that is a lot of running. I don't think I'll get there, even in peak months.

February looked pretty good for me but you people got me scared I might be doing to much as these are just my training for 70.3 I would increase for CDA next year

Swim- 14,000meters
Bike- 388 miles
Run- 106 miles

I did 531 total miles in January.

Swim: 35,132 meters
Bike: 330 miles
Run: 100.5 miles
Strength Training: 7 hours

Wow! You all are amazing. I am not worthy.

February totals
swim: 8 hours
Bike: 16hours
Run: 13hours

Wow only 13 more weeks until taper time.....this is going to sneak up on us isn't it?

Interesting..was just leafing through my plan thinking "wow..lots of time left'. 13 weeks till taper adds some of that urgency right back in...

Really getting excited for the race this year. Granted it's only my 2nd year of IM racing (and I use that term "racing" loosely) but the difference in my training and just "engine" overall is pretty eye opening. Already looking forward towards next year and am not only counting down to IMCDA this year but also the date that volunteer ops open up for IMWI this year (signing up for 2015).

Awesome Feb totals everyone!

13 weeks left, perfect time for 56 degrees and sun which just so happens to fall on a 100 mile bike ride. Any other foul weather people getting a weather break this weekend?