EagleMan Ironman 70.3 Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 22)

I PRed at 5:21:06, but I wasn't very happy while doing it.  Suffered most of the run in the heat.  I also missed the sno-cones! :-)  I screwed up my nutrition plan royally.  Got stung my a jellyfish on my lips during the swim, which was interesting for sure.

A friend of mine got a Kona slot and said "no" because it's too expensive!  Ugh, hard to imagine passing up such a thing.

PennState - 2009-06-15 7:26 AM Hey Aaron, Daremo actually smoked you on the bike. Just sayin'

I don't know, I think Jeep pulled it off by a blazing .05 sec!! This will be the talk of BT for quite some time!

It was great seeing some BTers down there this weekend. It really was a great day for racing.

Fred, you got me this week but I think I'll give you a run for your money at IMLP. Fantastic run BTW!!!

I highly recommend going to Lake Placid to spectate and volunteer.  But, it is really hard not to sign up that next day for next year's race, seeing what you saw, and knowing that the entry is highly sought after.

I missed my 5:15 goal by just under 10 mins -- finished with a 5:24:25.  Decent swim (was lucky not to see a single jelly fish) ; strong bike ; good first 3 miles and last 3 miles on the run -- but the middle 7 involved some walking and a port-a-potty stop.  I got really nauseous on the run ... I think one of my nutrition aides are not agreeing with me.

Had an interesting experience on the Bike...  the motorcyle officials gave a guy in front of me a "Crossing the yellow Line" penalty when he passed a pack of people blocking ; then he gave me a "Blocking Penalty" when I zoomed past 20 straight people who were going much slower" ... then I warned a guy in front of me they were giving out lots of Penalties and no kidding, 10 mins later the motorcylcle zoomed up on him and nailed him with a Blocking Penalty.  When I stopped at the Penalty Tent there were around 15 guys there!!  I saw the Officials constantly from miles 10 to 40 -- it sucked.  They even yelled out to one guy, who was doing absolutely nothing wrong, "You got one Penalty already.  One more and your done, pulled off the course and it's Game Over!"   I was shocked.  He yelled this really loud too.  Oh, and then on the run one guy as he was passing me (who I recognized from the bike) said the same Psycho Official gave him a penalty for "Drafting" behind me!!  I love how they sent out all these statistically slower waves in front of us, and then gave everybody Drafting and Blocking penalties.  It was so congested at a few points that it was impossible not to draft, impossible not to Block, and if you wanted to go around you had to cross the line.  A few times bikes were three and four deep and there were several dozen bikes in front of you and behind you.  And then to boot you have an Official handing out Penalties like he's getting paid for each one he hands out.   

We have some serious winds here on Long Island I guess cause I didn't think except for a couple times that the headwinds were that bad.  I also didn't think it was really that hot.  I kept thinking of how cool it would have felt to the people who ran it last year! 

Despite the one overzealous Official, I'm already pretty certain I'm signing up for next year.

Don't get me wrong, I probably was "Blocking" but it was hard not to -- and the crazy Official and congested course amazingly didn't sour my Race Experience.  I'm not bitter.  I'm powerless over things like that so I just let it Roll off my back. 

I had a great time and learned a lot.  I'm probably going to find that early bird paper the hotel gave me and book a room for next year.  Let me know in August if you sign up again.  Once I get this nutrition thing figured out and I log a few thousand more miles on the bike, I'll be ready to shoot for a sub 5:15 ... I'm ready to do the work starting now to get ready for Eagleman 2010.  I'm crazy like that

Cool pic! 

Am I the only person who still has his EagleMan wristband on??

dolelicious - 2009-06-18 11:37 AM

Dream Chaser - 2009-06-18 8:42 AM

Cool pic! 

Am I the only person who still has his EagleMan wristband on??

LOL!  I wanted to keep mine on at least through Monday but I was tormented by some people (I won't name any names here....) and told that I had to take it off!

I say rock on with your fashion accessory and keep wearing it with pride

I think I'm gonna wear it until R.I. 70.3 next month.  I'll flash it in front of the other M35-39 AG'ers.  Try and get inside their heads.  I'll mumble things like, "Now that Terenzo's not here, I'll have a shot at taking this thing."