Who's signed up for IM Louisvillein 2009? (Page 2)

I'm in Kirksville MO, but I HATE heat/humidity. Will be something to get used to!

That's cool. Im a first year at kcom. Signed up for NEmo! 5 days and counting!

Congrats for taking the plunge and signing up.  I posted this in my log about 1 month ago.....just some things to keep in mind as you hit the "submit" button on active.com

You might be training for an IM if

- you are hungry all the time (even after finishing a meal your stomach groans for more)

- your hair is always wet from pool, shower or sweat

- the laundry basket is full of sweat-wicking fabrics with a few pair of underwear thrown in

- you have constant saddles sores (or maybe that's just me)

- you are constantly hungry

- you have no patience (in fact have stopped going to Starbucks because having more than 2 people in line in front of you means waiting too f-in long for a coffee!)

- Gu and electrolyte drinks are their own food group

- incessant hunger

- when you leave the gym, people at the front desk say "see you later" rather than "have a nice day"

- body glide, deodorant, GU and goggles are in your glovebox in the car

- people no longer ask "how are you?" they ask "how's the training going?"

- have I mentioned the hunger?

- you are always packing/unpacking clothes for the next workout

- your significant other tells you over dinner how the movie/tv show you watched last night ended b/c you fell asleep watching it

- foreplay?? what's that?  "Let's have a quickie, I have to get up early so I can swim, bike or run"  

- you debate eating your arm while waiting for the waitress to bring over the friggin bread at a restaurant for fear you may starve to death

- you stop trying to figure out how much money you have spent training

- you know that surviving all of the above is worth having an IM finisher's medal!!!!  (I just got mine on Sunday!!)

It's a deal.. I'm in..  just signed up 

Gary, WTF!?!?  What happened to "1 and I'm done?"  Between you and Rigillio,I'm going to wind up back at IMKY in 09!

Whoo-hoo!  Let's all take a do-over!  That was such a great weekend.....let's do it again!  Twice as nice!  Amy?  Pat?  Shaun? Kelly?  Mark?  Bueller?  Bueller......Bueller?

I will wholeheartedly agree with these!

It is seriously killing me not to sign up right now.  Although my wife was incredibly supportive throughout the past year while I was training and getting ready, I think she hit her Ironman tolerance threshold for awhile.  2010?!?

Any time between 4 days and three weeks from this past Monday.  :-)  OK, that is no help.  The last 2 years it took about 2-3 weeks to fill up but who knows what will happen this year.  One could rationalize:

1. The local people who have wanted to do an IM have had 2 years now to do it and so it won't close out this year for a long time.

or

2.  Other M-dot IM events are getting harder and harder to get into so this race will fill up faster than in previous years.

It's a $560 gamble and it's anybody's guess how fast it will fill up.

~Mike

AbbieR - 2008-09-05 11:44 AM One less spot for 2009, I just signed up for more pain fun

Abbie!!!  My hero!!!  Yay!  We're gonna have great fun in Louisville....and training for it.

Twice as nice!

~Mike