Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 21)

Hi CdA Racers.

I haven't read the entire thread, but just had to post about Jim Kozak at Cyclemetrix in Coeur d Alene.

If you have any mechanical fixes or help assembling your ride before the big day, I highly recommend checking him out.  I have attached his contact information below.  By the way, I am not affiliated with him or his shop, just a satisfied customer who is estatic about finding a true perfectionist bike mechanic in the northwest.

Happy Training!

Jim Kozak, CycleMetrix LLC
208.755.6324
http://www.cyclemetrix.com/
7656 Baillie Street
Dalton Gardens, Idaho 83815

let me know what time and were you want to meet and I will ride with you if weather is not to bad.

right now Thur is snow rain 70 %, Fri snow rain 40%, Sat snow rain 30%, sun no rain.

shoulder is good. just stay on the shoulder and don't go on the road. cars will be going 70 mph and they don't move over. there is lots of shoulder to ride on, just plan on going single file.

X2.  I live about 2 miles from Jim's shop and use him for all my bike work.  He's a great guy, very much a perfectionist, and won't charge you an arm and leg either.  Highly recommend him.

I am sure it varies from year to year but what's the weather 'typically' like around race day? I guess what I really want to know, how much WIND can be expected? Is it typically overcast with an on going chance of rain etc?

I did look up the avg monthly temps: end of June-highs hovering around 80 and lows in the mid 50's

Figured as much but thought I would ask.......really hoping you were going to say water temp of 68, low of 50 high 60, wind at your back during the entire bike and run. Guess I will prepare for the opposite.

Water temp is more likely to be 58.

I'll be OK if the water temp is indeed 58*.  Bonus points if it is more like 60*. 

I'm hitting the lake on Sun with a few similarly masochistic friends and our current water temps are around 58*.

If anyone is interested in a course report from a MOP first timer here it is.  I rode and ran the course this weekend.  Ran on saturday as sundays weather was suppose to be better.  The run course is beautiful!!  It starts out through some neighborhoods with some of it being along the waterfrom with spectuacular old huge homes.  Then out to Higgens Point and back, all along the waterfront.  It's really breathtaking.  If the weather is warm, shade will be at a minumum.  The course is pretty flat with one good climb of about .5 miles under I-90 but doeable.

The bike...starts off like the run, about 14 miles out and back from Higgens Point, very very doeable!  Then about 22 miles out Hwy95 and 22  back.  From a MOP like me this section is rather challenging.  The first and biggest hill comes pretty quickly in this section and I measured it as a 1.7 mile climb.  I was taking this first attempt on this course easy (and I had run 13 miles the day before and spent the rest of the day in the indoor waterpark with my kids!!) and I was staying at about 8mph on the climb and never had to get out of my seat.  The rest of the ride was up and down, up and down, up and down but this was the longest climb.  On the way back over the hill I meausred it at 2.1 miles and found it more challenging but again, did not hop out of my saddle but I will probably need to when I am on the second loop.   Lots of pretty sceanary and not technical at all.  My training partner who came with me has done Cda, Lake Placid, Canada, and Wisconsin.  She says this is the best bike course she has ever ridden.  Remember for every up there is a down!!!!  Oh and one more thing, coming back the headwinds were pretty brutal too, and it was like 32 degrees!  YIKES.  Hopefully the winds won't be so bad but even with that, if time had permitted (which it didn't since we had a long drive back to Seattle) I was feeling good enough I would have rode this section of the course again.

What time were you riding?  I saw lots of bikes on saturday when we were running but none on sunday and I was wondering where all the people were!!

I was thinking the same thing...that that climb would be at 100 but I will try and stay positive and remember I am almost done!!  I also realized yesterday that none of the climbs were so bad that my legs were burning when I was finished with that climb.  I found it like childbirth...while climbing it totally sucks but once you are at the top you think, Oh, that wasn't too bad!  HaHa.  We rode from downtown starting at 7:45 am!!!  We were staying up in Hayden at Triple Play and had our bikes on the rack.  Before we could ride we spent 10-15 minutes getting the frost off our bikes.  It was very very cold!!!!  I am curious if 95 is usually that windy?  If it's something to expect come race day?  It didn't seem awful but would of been easier without it.

Here I am at the bike turnaround!!

Don't forget about our live facebook chat today with Ironman Coeur d’Alene race director Mac Cavasar less than an hour away at 3 p.m. EST! http://buzz.mw/_f7ArW

I did Boise 70.3 last year.  Water was colder than at IMCDA.  I think i just double capped it and was just fine.