Subject: RE: Great Floridian Triathlon : Official ThreadHi all...thanks to everyone for all of the valuable information on this race. My brother and I will be participating in the 2010 Great Floridian next weekend. This is our first iron-distance event, which happened to start out as a 'bucket list' item. However, our mother is battling a re-emergence of cancer and as a result, we have a renewed sense of purpose for the race. We live in North Florida, so while we do have some hills, I don't think they compare to what's in store for us in Clermont. That said, we did what we could in training. We followed a loose variation of the 36 week plan from Tri-fuel, making adjustments for family (I have four daughters under the age of twelve and an incredibly supportive, amazing wife/sherpa ), church, work, injury and life in general. Other than Saturdays, virtually all of the workouts occurred at dark-thirty in the morning, or slightly before. Sundays and evenings were mandatory family & rest days. We are hoping for wetsuit-legal water temps and although we are prepared to swim without them, we will be a tad disappointed if we have to do that. What can we say??....we like floating before a nice bike ride. We are now in taper (sleep in until 4 am....sad, but true ) mode. Wishing everyone the best for October 23. |