Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas 2012 : Official Thread (Page 20)

Current weather conditions here in beautiful West Michigan 9 degrees, wind chill  sub zero

Might break down and hit the treadmill for my run

Baymont Inn and Suites in Conroe will be my home for 6 nights in mid May, anyone else staying there?

Flights to Houston... still in progress

Current conditions in Seabrook Texas  77 degrees and sunny.

Think i will do a 50 mile  bike Saturday and a 10 mile  run on Sunday.

Gotta luv the Texas winters

armckenzie - 2012-01-20 5:24 PM Definitely have to love this Texas winter. Got a nice 60 miler in yesterday @ 78 degrees (central texas)! and a longish run today! now if only this wind would go away...

Nice work!

Good location.  You are 2 blocks from a kroger, 3 exits from the race, and 2 exits to the pool I told you about.  If you need anything before or during let me know.

Appreciate that thanks, how far you riding this weekend?

If anyone is in the area and is interested, me and one or two buddies will be biking the north IMTX course Sunday. We will probably meet at the Wal-mart in Montgomery and bike from there. Pedals will be cranking somewhere around 8-8:30 or so.

Here's the route we will take:  http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5263828

Anyone's welcome

sulross - 2012-01-21 7:37 AM Trying to choke down some calories for fuel this morning. Gonna ride 65 today in NW D/FW area - don't want to bonk again like my last long ride a week ago. We went from 78 degrees yesterday to a start this morning that will be around 37 degrees. Dang, why couldn't the warm air linger for another day? Oh, well...no snow and ice to worry about! I did 11 miles on the run yesterday and swam afterwards. My right leg is a little tweaked from the run - not sure what it is, but hope the bike will stretch it out. You guys all have a great day/weekend!

You had the warm weather and now it is cooling off, we had the cold weather (0 degrees on my run the other night) and today was balmy on my run, 10 degrees

No problem

I did 3 hours this morning on the trainer and I plan another 1.5 tomorrow along with a 1.5 hr run. 

If I would have read this earlier I would have changed my schedule up. 

Have you ever ridden the 2 portions of the course off 149?  Those are the nice vportions into the woods and a few elevation changes that you should take a mental note of.  If you take the first one, osborne road, watch for the cracks.  The drought really split the first part of it up, but it is still good roads.  I write this assuming you have not ridden the full north portion.  If you add those 2 sections to the route, then you can cut across on Johnson road to fm1097 west back to 149.  It is essentialy the oilman route adding in the 2 sections for IMTX.  Just a thought

16 degrees this morning for my run but a crazy late day warm up and its officially over the freezing mark right now, 34 degrees

MELT SNOW MELT!!!!

Had a very good week, felt strong and pain free, kinda scary. This week is my recovery week. need to make sure i back off a little, but sometimes its hard when things are really clicking. Hope everyone elses training is going well

Anyone from the local area know anything about the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Conroe?  How far from the race site? Is the race site easily accessible from there?  Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

They are less than 2 years old so they should be nice.  It is a very easy drive to the race site and you would have no problems staying at that location.  Some of my rides take me past that location when I do not ride the IMTX north portion of the course. 

Finally back online and almost have everything I need to get back in training.

One small snag since we've arrived is that my oldest daughter's first communion is now the day after IMTX.  I've never missed any kind of important event in my childrens' lives so this is a tough one.  I figure I will just continue training and let my wife and I figure this out.

Tonight I will finally post a workout in my logs   I also need to find a pool closer than the one that's over half an hour away.

Welcome back, that's gonna be a tough call on what to do