Ironman North American Championship Mont-Tremblant : Official Thread (Page 16)

Originally posted by meggfishy

I'm in Mont-Tremblant for vacation right now and it's stunning. A triathlete's paradise. The IM village is partway set up and I've seen a few athletes around. I ran one loop of the run course today and drove the Chemin Duplessis section of the bike yesterday and all looks awesome! I popped into the lake and I feel I would be totally fine in a sleeveless wetsuit. I am definitely signing up for next year.

If there's anything I can investigate for anyone while I'm here, I'm happy to!

Originally posted by dmbfan4life20

Glad you are having a good time Meg! Do you feel better about your decision to pick IMMT as your first IM?? How did the roads look to you on Montee Ryan and Chemin Duplessis in terms of hills? Did they look intimidating to you since you were worried about hills or were they not so bad? You enjoying your vacation?

I will be getting into town Monday night so Ill be going for a run on tuesday and hopefully a quick Chemin Bike ride on wednesday.

Just a quick check of the weather in Tremblant for the current 10 day forecast.......

Tuesday- Saturday looks like highs are in the 60's- low 70's with 50-70% chance of rain each day.

RACEDAY Current Forecast- 74 and partyly cloudy with a 10% chance of rain and WSW winds at 6mph


What does everyone think that the temps and rain would do to the lake temp before race day? Will it impact it that much over the next 7days? Lets hope the raceday forecast holds and lets have no rain on saturday either.

Originally posted by meggfishy



We just missed each other -- we left MT Monday afternoon to head back to the Montreal airport. I'm sorry y'all are getting poured on this week...the weather was so nice when I was there! Hoping for good weather for y'all Sunday.

You know, the hills on the course were not nearly as bad as I had envisioned. It obviously looks challenging, but I had pictured the Chemin Duplessis climbs to be much steeper than they are. It looks like there's a lot of good corresponding downhill for the uphills.

I really really enjoyed MT. It's almost like someone tasked Disney with creating a charming ski village targeted directly at triathletes. I'm looking forward to heading back next year.

Originally posted by dmbfan4life20

Hey everyone. I have been here since Monday. Got a 3 mile run in yesterday and today I biked the Chemin Duplessis section (12 miles- I actually went past the turn around part) in the freaking pouring rain and I mean pouring!!! It was a fair stretch but by no means as difficult as I envisioned. I can tell that doing it on the end of each loop will be more difficult then riding today on fresh legs. Most of the hills are steep but they are short. I loved getting all that free speed on the way back into town. Since the rain and winds were so strong today, I lost all of that free speed to be careful as to not crash but I was glad I got out and did a course preview. I have driven the Montee Ryan several times this week so we could get places and that does not look too bad. I plan on driving the highway section tomorrow just to see and put some landmarks in my memory bank. The town is already alive with IM spirit and lots of people here already training.

Are we still meeting Friday morning at 7am infront of the Kandahar to go swimming??

Hope everyone has safe travels

Originally posted by Fred D

I think it's a fair course where you can actually fly down the descents pretty fast. The climb you mentioned I find pretty steep myself, but it is all relative I suppose. I hope to stay around 300w and no higher on those climbs. Ended up choosing a standard crank with an 11-25 cassette, because that is what I'm most used to and the climbing in central PA is even tougher. We are now hoping to arrive tonight. Definitely looking forward to the week. I ride tomorrow , swim Friday and then do some top secret pre race prep on Saturday ;-)