BT IM Louisville watching thread! (Page 17)

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Kenny DNF'd for feet/cramps. He's good but ready to see the family. He made it to mile 20. He's in the medic tent right now getting IV's....thanks for all the help with the updates guys...good luck and congrats to everyone else!

Tifni

 

I passed Kenny a few times and he was doing ok...but looked like he was hurtin' the last time I saw him.  He finished 134.4 miles today and that's pretty darn impressive!

 

~Mike

Edited by Rogillio 2008-08-31 10:33 PM

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Some fat shirtless hillybilly was running through the chute and back out to the course...hope he didn't run into athletes.

a good reason not to have IM on UL/UK game day!

I photoshopped mine last year to make the correct time appear.

Great Job out there everyone! I love reading these threads at the end of an IM day.

For those of you that DNF'd today, I'm sorry that you guys didn't get to finish, especially all that are not previous Ironman finishers.  I didn't make it through the bike this year at IMLP, after finishing the year before.  So I know both the joy of finishing and the pain of not being able to finish.  It just wasn't your day today but there will be other days that it will all come together, and this experience will only help.  But a DNF still sucks.   Feel free to contact me if you want to vent. 

x100,000,000,000

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hey i just saw ken Get brought into medical on a stretcher. says he's doing ok and is getting an iv. keep him in your thoughts for a quick bounce

Just wanted to post a final big CONGRATULATIONS to all of the Ironman Louisville competitors.  I can only imagine how tough it was out there today and I hope that recovery is smooth for each of you.  You, your dream, your perseverance and spirit have inspired me today. 

OK, last post with results until tomorrow. I've had a giant day, and I'm ready to sleep. Congrats to all the finishers, survivors, and first timers. Awesome stuff, not easy to do on a lousy day, weather-wise.

Here ya go. And go ahead and kick up the rooting for the last couple BT'ers on course.

BT Name	Real Name	Bib #	S	T1	B	T2	R	Total	Status
thewindshop	Terry Wyatt	1800	1:24:13	0:04:19	6:10:02	0:05:13	3:32:12	11:15:59	Done
grit_nugget	Garrett McAlister	309	1:09:33	0:04:34	5:42:40	0:06:35	4:20:26	11:23:48	Done
getsome	Brandon Janosky	271	1:28:34	0:06:49	6:14:22	0:10:37	3:42:13	11:42:35	Done
rstocks3	Bob Stocks	1748	0:55:55	0:03:33	5:13:33	0:06:14	5:32:39	11:51:54	Done
mangorunner	Justin Manganaro	305	1:46:51	0:04:46	6:25:57	0:06:03	3:53:51	12:17:28	Done
amymengel	Amy Engel	808	1:08:05	0:05:38	6:08:28	0:05:52	4:56:32	12:24:35	Done
shamgar7	John Pettit	2094	1:25:17	0:05:35	6:18:28	0:08:04	4:42:30	12:39:54	Done
razorxp	David Ray	719	1:16:35	0:03:57	6:07:57	0:05:23	5:10:27	12:44:19	Done
KeepOnTriN	Avery Adams	101	1:07:51	0:04:57	6:26:28	0:06:22	5:03:50	12:49:28	Done
1111	Leslie Teed	870	1:18:08	0:03:29	6:42:06	0:05:24	4:48:53	12:58:00	Done
Bradford	Brad Brinke	930	1:25:23	0:08:52	6:04:39	0:06:46	5:29:09	13:14:49	Done
Steve-	Steve Janowiak	1075	1:17:21	0:11:34	6:11:35	0:10:47	5:24:43	13:16:00	Done
m-mcclain	Michael McClain	311	1:11:33	0:03:30	6:28:51	0:13:12	5:27:35	13:24:41	Done
Lucky80	Jeremy McMullen	314	1:24:45	0:08:08	6:32:53	0:12:45	5:26:32	13:45:03	Done
jimmyb	Jim Barron	1432	1:23:46	0:04:18	6:30:34	0:08:13	5:39:40	13:46:31	Done
jayhawkfirefighter	John Glaser	590	1:20:57	0:08:05	7:07:12	0:17:40	5:00:12	13:54:06	Done
TriathletePT	Andy Gray	253	1:35:45	0:04:53	7:03:50	0:09:13	5:01:41	13:55:22	Done
davidb	David Barron	905	1:12:23	0:03:50	6:08:00	0:06:47	6:26:58	13:57:58	Done
cwsiii	Charles Smitherman	742	1:12:52	0:04:54	6:32:29	0:05:33	6:02:29	13:58:17	Done
FishHog	Brad Armstrong	895	1:18:28	0:04:02	6:26:23	0:08:43	6:02:33	14:00:09	Done
maura9900	Maura Douglas	804	1:25:36	0:04:42	7:23:52	0:06:54	4:59:10	14:00:14	Done
6:59:57	Kati Derrick	1341	1:13:33	0:04:12	6:59:57	0:08:15	5:38:07	14:04:04	Done
PinkLeopard	Monica Brookman	796	1:25:10	0:03:48	6:44:11	0:06:34	5:46:55	14:06:38	Done
gparris	Greg Parris	2335	1:24:45	0:06:29	7:08:27	0:10:53	5:16:50	14:07:24	Done
devilwillride	Patrick Allen	888	1:25:38	0:07:04	6:43:09	0:11:35	5:42:04	14:09:30	Done
BamaDC	Mark Holladay	267	1:14:50	0:04:44	7:00:01	0:10:38	5:49:01	14:19:14	Done
efari71	Erik Farinas	998	1:22:53	0:09:45	6:43:55	0:11:40	5:52:38	14:20:51	Done
sydneypitt	Sydney Pitt	182	1:22:24	0:02:35	6:16:38	0:04:16	6:37:28	14:23:21	Done
altapdr	Dominic Guinta	1034	1:33:09	0:05:53	6:26:21	0:16:48	6:07:44	14:29:55	Done
Rogillio	Mike Rogillio	2114	1:32:55	0:06:31	6:48:11	0:09:26	5:56:33	14:33:36	Done
Ckinsey	Chris Kinsey	637	1:22:55	0:07:17	6:18:27	0:12:30	6:41:42	14:42:51	Done
slowone	Heather Ramsey	1882	1:24:30	0:05:15	6:49:10	0:07:07	6:24:32	14:50:34	Done
CubeFarmGopher	Shaun Gallagher	581	1:25:15	0:02:39	6:06:24	0:13:41	7:10:18	14:58:17	Done
Sparty	Roger Whitney	1788	1:36:21	0:05:05	7:20:43	0:12:41	5:47:06	15:01:56	Done
Gaarry	Gary Goode	1532	1:22:00	0:08:39	7:34:53	0:14:21	5:49:13	15:09:06	Done
king03	Justin Kingery	284	1:26:39	0:06:29	7:09:54	0:11:42	6:19:00	15:13:44	Done
dlink	Steve Kinch	2027	1:19:49	0:08:56	7:06:35	0:11:50	6:29:44	15:16:54	Done
AbbieR	Abbie Feibush	809	1:27:05	0:04:27	7:10:36	0:09:31	6:27:03	15:18:42	Done
bgallier	Brian Gallier	1018	1:27:30	0:06:13	7:34:43	0:07:22	6:06:14	15:22:02	Done
Shanks	Andrew Shanks	155	1:22:51	0:08:26	7:24:01	0:12:30	6:17:59	15:25:47	Done
rivi	Richard Rivera	1701	2:00:49	0:06:46	6:59:20	0:09:03	6:14:08	15:30:06	Done
kaburns1214	Kelly Burns	407	1:23:13	0:07:56	7:32:26	0:11:49	6:25:47	15:41:11	Done
KSH	Karen Hicks	1359	1:15:50	0:13:29	7:07:11	0:19:41	6:49:18	15:45:29	Done
jmsazboy	John Smith	1244	1:40:21	0:12:38	7:51:16	0:11:13	6:04:04	15:59:32	Done
Frank Amato	Frank Amato	889	1:24:35	0:08:25	7:42:51	0:17:08	6:28:10	16:01:09	Done
outofshapeguy	Michael Rodriguez	357	1:40:55	0:08:53	8:15:44	0:14:19	5:49:52	16:09:43	Done
umbach	John Umbach	1281	1:07:54	0:05:10	6:18:50	0:12:20	5:09:14	12:53:28	1.8 to go
moreland007	Kevin Moreland	323	1:18:33	0:03:03	7:03:04	0:10:39	7:17:45	15:53:04	1.8 to go
pdeyoung	Philip DeYoung	976	1:28:30	0:06:28	8:00:49	0:10:39	6:09:44	15:56:10	1.8 to go
mykle15	Michael Moreland	687	1:40:08	0:07:44	7:28:45	0:06:52	6:33:37	15:57:06	1.8 to go
jmoreland	Jenny Moreland	452	1:28:34	0:05:55	8:39:12	0:09:39	4:48:18	15:11:38	5.9 to go
Ten9T6	Kenny Norton	697	1:32:29	0:09:45	7:29:35	0:19:44	4:39:45		medical
jeffreyk	Jeffrey Kern	1586	1:20:01	0:12:22	DNF				Pulled from bike
truebrits	Scott McMillon	1633	2:20:41	0:09:20	DNF				Pulled from bike
jenneunc	Jenn Todd	872	1:39:10	0:08:00	DNF				Pulled from bike
mattb1	Matt Baker	490	D-N-Figure out who you are.						Hmm.

 

Hey everyone... I am back at my room now. Thanks for the support! Yes, DNF'ing does suck.. especially 6 miles out from being an IRONMAN. But... you know what...I can / will do it another day. At this distance, crap happens. And that crap usually starts a chain reaction of "other crap"....Again, it sucks..but like it has been said before, if it were easy, everyone would do it.

Even though I am not walking away as an IRONMAN...I can honestly tell you as I sit here...I am not as upset as I thought I would be. (this is strange territory for me.. I hate "losing"...bad). I look back at what I have done / become over the last year, and I honestly have nothing that I could complain about. I have trained with a lot of great people, that have made me better, I have dropped loads of weight, I have added years to my life...that I can spend with Tifni and my kids (ssh..and posting on BT, too)...I got to meet loads of BT'rs at this event and had people come up out of the "Blue" (nice....! you like that?) to talk to me and congratulate me...(short version of the story... Cube and I got robbed Friday... at the Biggest loser)... I got my longest bike ride ever... My longest OWS...my FIRST (read there are going to be more) time to toe the line at an IRONMAN..I got to spend several days with my "little" brother... I haven't been able to do that, since we were kids. I could go on and on.... but you get the point... I have heard it several times on this board... IRONMAN is about the journey and the race and completion is just gravy...I know that I have the IRONMAN heart and mentality, it is just going to take me toeing the line one more time to close the deal.

I will post a race report at some point this week... but here is a quick run through..

Hurry up and wait for the swim....Once I entered the water, the current in the channel seemed to be stronger than on my practice swims earlier in the week....in the wide open. No big deal...suck it up and drive on... I got tired of swimming away from people...so, if they kept bumping me, I swam over them. I know I would have a MUCH faster time, if I learned to site better... I suck... so my 3 mile swim ( ) took a while... (read zig-zag).... Getting out of the water and running sucked almost as much as a brick.. maybe I should do some swicks . haha

Ok.. on the bike.. Here is where IRONSUCKFEST began. Hands down one of the slowest...ugliest rides I have had in a while. It was like 112 miles on the Celina loop for me. (locals will understand). Ok.. in training, I busted...at a screw hole.. my arm pad holder on my aerobars. Well this gave me training for today. On mile 2... yes 2.. I noticed that my left pad was loose. So, when I went to wiggle it.. it broke off.. at the screw hole..yah... the things that were coming out of my mouth were not cool at that point. So, now I can't get into aero. Nice! A big guy with a cool aero helmet....riding upright. I did put my right arm in to position but gripped the base bar with my left. This helped for a while, but screwed me later. I tried putting my left arm down, but it would slip on the cobra wing... and the busted metal bracket was poking my arm. Finally on the second loop, I said screw it and basically pressed down and stuck it to my arm..... No slidey and I could get aero! No worries.. your arm will get numb after a while... At some point, Grit_nugget passed me and said hey... after he left, he release a bee that stung me in the face.. lol.. (I know it wasn't him. but it happened right after he went off). Yes, this happened to me in training.. only it was a yellow jacket on the inside of the thigh on a bike ride. After some more cursing.. all I could do was laugh... The suck fest was at full force.. or so I thought....Somewhere in all of this, I dropped my NUUN container holding my salt tabs. So, I had to wait until my special needs bag. Also from this point forward I started having problems with my granny gear. It was jumping around making noise and skipping. This caused me to drop the chain 3 times today while shifting. I thought I had fixed this, when I changed out one of the rings on my cassette. I tested it on the HED3s....and it worked fine.. but I didn't test it like I did today. I finally was able to pick up some time on the way back in....

Off the bike.. on to the run.. my lower back was cramping and spasming from the start. This continued until mile 14..that is when I saw the finish...since they tease you on the loop by making you run like 50 yards from it...and then make you hang a right to start the second loop. I started picking up the pace which lead to throwing up and more cramping in the back... this continued for the next several miles. Cops kept asking me if I needed help and I said no. It finally got to a point where my legs kept cramping.... I would throw up which would cause my lower back to cramp.. which would throw me forward. When I tried to straighten up, it would cramp again. At this point I was only getting a little further before we started over. At mile 20 I finally told my brother I was done. I wasn't going to keep pushing until I had to be taken to the hospital. I sat down on a curb as he went to get someone. That is when my arches started cramping. Great feeling! A few minutes later..they woke me up and put me in the back of an ambulance....this was a first for me. They asked me some questions hooked me up to stuff and gave me O2 while transporting me to the medical area for IRONMAN. They wheeled me and hooked me to an IV and ran other test. I also talked to them about my bike ride and my position for 110 or so miles. They said that could have started my back cramping and the numbness in the outer two fingers of my hand. I took a nap during the IV...they looked at my lower backllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll < nice.. I just fell asleep typing this.. haha.. I guess my body is telling me something... Anyway.. once they were done with me..the foot Doc, lanced 6 or so large blisters from both my feet. Now I am back at the hotel...

So... you see that is long.. just wait for the report.

Thanks again for all the support...

Kenny

Kenny, I am so proud of the journey you took to get here.  I can feel for how you must feel today, but you made the right decision.  Even though you didn't hear your name announced today, you made the journey, you put in the training, and you made yourself into the amazing athlete that was always in there.  You added years of time to your life, and you became an awesome inspiration in the process.  Be proud of your efforts on race day, we all are!

You are the man Kenny.  Why don't you hobble up to Madison next week so you can sign up for IMMOO the next day to participate in '09?  It would be an honor to race with you next year.  Great perspective and great job.