Ironman Arizona : Official Thread (Page 2)

that depends.  If your 30-34 then you can probably just do 1 mile repeats on the bike, run no more than 5 miles per week, and just sit in a hot tub for the swimming (it's time in the water you need).

If you are older you might wanna look at some of the plans here and see which one works for your own time constraints.  It's a long ways to go, I would think putting another race on the sked will help keep you pumped.

BUT... if you age 35-39, you can eat all you want every day Beer, Pizza, Ice Cream whatever. You need to fuel all that training sax suggests.

Crap.  I have to cross the street today.  Wish me luck.

In other news, my long-put-off-so-I-could-deploy hernia surgery is looking like it's going to happen in January.  Doc says no training whatsoever for six weeks, but I'm a quick healer and an impatient patient.   Good thing I have a PT in the house to keep me somewhat honest...

 good luck on street crossing and the surgery. anyone using tribike transport for their special offer 12#31?

I'll be using them!  They did a great job getting my bike to KY this year.

perkins_jerryw - 2008-12-24 9:24 AM I wish all IMAZ participants for 2009 and future races a great year!  If some of you have started out training already in the winter months, I suggest considering that the run is not as flat as it may look like on a map.  Good base training should include at least some hill repeats - this isn't Florida after all!

Great advice

While in town volunteering this year, I had a chance to do quite a bit of running on the course and agree that there are a couple of places that have the ability to put the hurt on if your not prepared for it. (The Run over the Butte on Curry Road in particular)

This is a 3 lap course and the good news is that we get to see everything there is to see about the course pretty early in the marathon. The bad news is that we have 2 more repeats for the parts we don't particularly care for.

Just visualize the point where the Loopers continue down the waterfront and the Finishers turn onto Rio Salado toward the big Gatorade Bottle, the Wall of Noise and the Bright lights of the finish

Looking forward to joining the fray.  I'll skip the dreams though...who really needs sleep? 

I think a lot of us are also doing the California 70.3, so we're just starting our training for that.

After California 70.3 it will mostly be a bunch of "B" and "C" races and consistent but medium intensity training so that I don't get burnt out. The official training for IMAZ really won't start till 20 weeks out- early to mid June.

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There's two distances that I've already conquered: the 2.4 miles (cake) and the marathon which is no big deal to me. My big Dragon is the bike, 2008 is the first year for me to get on a bike since I was a kid, and I never went past a 30 mile ride. Advice, anyone? My best average is 19mph for 25 miles on a flat pancake course. I feel I need a lot of work on this issue and I could use you guys expertise here.

I still have 11 months to IMAZ, I think that's the good news though...

Please reply

Ernest

My training starts after I am fully recovered from the Boston Marathon. (My other "A" Race) I would have liked to have done IMCal again but it is during Taper Time for Boston.

I will probably be following a 20 week plan and just base building until then. I have a few tuneup races in mind though. (A couple of 5k swims, a few Olympics and a Half Marathon or two)

c u in boston on april 20!

 i kind of wish it was over in the fall so it would not take some of my first IM training plan time.

ERnest

my advice is to get a coach to help coordinate your bike improvement while you try to retain your fitness in the other two.

Thanks, any idea on where to get one?

Happy New Year!