IMCDA Are you ready? (Page 21)

Fri - 10 - 4 Registration 

Fri - 5:30 Pasta Dinner

Sat 10 - 3 Bike/gear check in

Like I said, You have a plethora of informative information for us naive neophytes.

Hello All-

Lake not quite 70....not quite 65.....pooring rain as I write this!  Not to worry though, warmer weather on the way.....say about June 25th!  Just joshing, lake will warm up nicely.

There is a tall clock tower right at the entrance to the CDA Resort.  It is on the corner of 1st and Sherman...basically right about where the finish line will be.  Easily findable and a good place to meet.  We could all consider that the spot.  It is close to transition and Athlete Village, etc!

I literally got the chills as I opened the Athlete guide....  And now I am as giddy as a school girl

I'm reading the schedule of events, and it appears we can do the mandatory meeting friday night OR saturday afternoon

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FUNNY - Page 12, there is a section that says:

LATE FINISHERS - If you finish the race after 4pm, please be aware that there will only be a skeleton medical staff on stand-by at the medical tent.  (emphasis added).  So, if I read this correctly, everyone who takes longer than 9 hours to complete the race is a "late" finisher and gets the skeleton crew.  He he he...that's funny.

Something tells me the volunteer EMT folks didn't fully grasp the concept of this race when they made their schedule.  According to last years result, 8 competitors were able to take advantage of the "full" medical staff . The other 1753 were "late"

I received an e-mail saying that Bib # will be released on the 13th.

Kootenai Medical Center staffs the medical tent and it will be staffed until midnight.  They take great pride in what they put into this event.  Many of the "pros" and late finishers say it is the very best medical tent they have ever seen!!

Do not worry...someone will be there to take care of ya!!!

Something funny this am......

After being aggravated because of pool crowding/time/committments, etc I jumped in one of the six showers at the gym and noticed that beside myself there were two other fellas shaving their legs!!!  Must be getting close to race day!!

The ones NOT shaving their legs looked at the rest of us like we were crazy!

Man, I don't know where THAT came from!  I've been on the medical staff at CDA the last 3 years and the tent is FULLY staffed until midnight every year.  So no worries.  And yeah, it really is one of the best medical staffs of all the IM races.  The medical director here is co-director for Kona and Arizona and the one of the Seattle Seahawks team physicians...really good sports medicine guy. 

I don't think any of us have any worries though...no BT'ers are going to need the medical tent!! 

My favorite quote from the Athlete Information Guide, also on page 12:

"4. TRAUMA - Try to avoid it."

Noted

I don't like how they keep saying the bike course closes at 1 pm.  I don't know if I can make that

If I do I'm sure I can finish the marathon in 11 hours.

I posted a few pics from the course in my album if any of you are interested in seeing some more of it.  I'll see if I can put a couple of them on here too.

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WATER TEMP UPDATE!!!

64 or 65.  Couldn't decide which it was so let's just say it is warming up!

Hey Stan-

I recognize those rocks up by Signal Point Road.  Pretty much fun downhill after that!!  Wished the weather today was like your pics!!