Ironman Arizona : Official Thread (Page 21)

x2!  Got out for 12 miler this morning, wanted to just keep going it was so nice!  Let's hope for the same weather up in Duluth for the half in two weeks!

Well, training hasn't been going as planned, I pretty much fell off the horse all together after our mini vacation a week a half ago.

It seem's everytime I try to do something I get caught up in work or life. I know excuses, excuses. This morning I was going to so a 2 hour run, but 3 year old son was in ER instead with a 105 temp.

Things sgould get better though, the biggest limiter for me the last few has been taking the kids to daycare in the morning and picking them up after work. That really chewed into my before/after work time, and once I leave work and head for home if I don't have a work out already done, it's probably not going to get done.

I've tried the night time workout thing and it doesn't work for me, not only are my workouts worse, but then I sleep like crap and it ruins my next day.

Anyway, back on track this week for sure, wife is back to school so she will be taking the kids to daycare and I'll have that time back, plus not have to pick up the kids by 5 so I'll be back at the gym and on the bike in the afternoon.

Not much else going on. Will be doing a HIM on Sunday and will practice a few things. After that I evaluate and move on.

Would you do a HIM about 3 weeks before IMAZ??

I have always done SOMA as an IMAZ tune-up.  Not a super hard effort, just a nice confidence building race!

Nope

No.  I almost wish I hadn't signed up for the HIM I'm doing 10 weeks out...

I'm going to win Soma four weeks (Oct 21st) before crushing IMAZ.

Three weeks out (Oct 28/29) I'll do peak distance on the bike and run.

Two weeks out (Nov 3) I do my longest brick.

One week out I'll become unstoppable.

Last year for B2B I used bikeflights.com.  Fedex picked it up at my house and dropped it at my hotel.  Easy.  Nearest Tri-Bike Transport drop off point for me is 1 hour, two hours round trip.  Plus another two hours after the event. For IMAZ I think I will ship it again, saves me so much hassle.

For those IM Arizona vets,

          If you had to give one piece of advice for first timers at IM Arizona, what would it be?

An article about doing a HIM in your IM training (odd that it came in e-mail just yesterday)...

http://www.endurancenation.us/blog/training/racing-a-half-ironman-before-a-full-ironman/

Destroyer - 2012-08-16 7:36 PM Being unstoppable lasts for two weeks so I'll be unstoppable in Arizona and unstoppable at Thanksgiving.

I may or may not be unstoppable in Arizona...but, at Thanksgiving, WATCH OUT! I'm almost looking forward to that more than the race!

Practice swimming and sighting into the sun.  The first mile or so of the swim will be facing into the morning sun.  Sunrise on Race day is 7:02am.

Now thats good stuff. Thanks

Do the practice swim so you are prepared for the COLD water.  Bring full sleeve wetsuit, wear a neoprene hat, and contemplated the booties.  i decided to forego the booties, instead smeared lots of vaseline all over my feet and hands to keep the cold out (little MN winter running trick).  It worked fabulously, until it washed off 2/3 of the way through the swim. (I'm very slow).  wow, it was COLD.  out of the water, the volunteer told me I didn't need to go in the warm up tent because I wasn't cramping, was just so cold my hands didn't function.  I should not have listened as I literally had to have someone else take undress me and put all my clothes on.  no feeling in feet or hands for the first half of loop one and my mph reflected that. 

wear neoprene, use vaseline, go through the warming tent, and have hot water in a thermous in T1 bag.  -- i guess that's not one piece of advice, unless you chacterize it as "stay warm!"

yes, but 4 would be better.  is a good final tune up to run through things like nutrition, transitioning, last check on shorts and bike performance, and mental checklist of yeah - I am ready.  plus, if your party is starting to grind, this is a check on what feels twingy -- I discovered my knee was not particularly happy, but still working, so wore a knee brace for AZ - just elastic CVS one, but was enough to keep the knees happy