Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas : Official Thread (Page 26)

Saw you are located in Memphis. I went to Rhodes College. Cant tell you how much I miss Krystals at 3 in the morning.

I'm technically in town (30 min drive), but I'll be in and out Wed/Thurs and staying after the practice swim on Fri.

I will be down Wednesday evening as well, but I only have to drive from Dallas once the squid gets out of school around 4pm, so I should be in The Woodlands by 7:30-8:ish depending on traffic. Planning an easy 1 hr ride on Thursday morning, banquet Thursday evening, and then the swim on Friday morning followed by a quick 2-3 mile run right after the swim

Definitely would like to meet some folks from BT if we can wing it at the banquet or at the swim on Friday

Driving in Thurs morning and staying at the Marriott at least on Friday night....may change and stay in Conroe Thursday night to save some dough since it will be just me...can't decide.

4 days without any activity and I feel like a slob and that I am losing fitness. Turns out, the bruising is really not going away as fast as I had hoped. Going to try a run tomorrow. Damn, I really felt like I was peaking at the right time and now this.

In case you were planning on it, Lake Woodlands is closed to open swimming until race morning.

The most important things at this point are rest and confidence. 

Except for the practice swim on Friday.

But in the athlete guide

IRONMAN Practice Swim

The Ironman practice swim will be held on

Friday, May 17 from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. at Lake

Woodlands. ONLY registered athletes in

the race will be allowed to participate in the

practice swim.

I sent an email off to Ironman to get a confirmation on this

How you feeling dude?  I know you were sick.  I'm starting to feel better but I'm not 100% yet.  What I don't want to do is try and go for a workout and then relapse.

I'm almost 100%. Still exhausted though. I was on medicine and drank about twice the water I normally do. Did a few really low HR spins where I could just sweat everything out. That seemed to help, along with a little extra sleep. Seems like sleep is hard to come by these days. I plan on taking a day off here and there to make sure I am getting my rest. Taper is worthless if you are persistently exhausted. 

You shouldn't be worried. Take an extra day or two if you need to. You have been so consistent through the build, you don't have anything to worry about in regards to fitness. You have to remember that you won't get any faster during the taper period. If you try to keep building volume, you're only hurting your capability on race day. Get your rest and have faith in the training you have put in. Is this your first Ironman?

@ KOTCsl

Ya first full.  Thanks dude.

Agree with KOTCsl, if you add on volume at this point you're risking hurting your race day performance.

Temperature is changing on the 18th but still looking like some sort of rain will occur. I know I know...its Houston and weather changes in an instance. Will be an interesting ride in wet conditions.

Now if we could be so lucky to get Monday, May 20th's forecasted weater....high 85 low 70, cloudy and less humid with very slight wind.  I guess there's no sense in worrying about it as long as there's nothing that causes them to cancel a portion of the race.

Kind of glad I was swimming today. 

Don't fool yourselves into thinking this thing will be wetsuit legal.

Yeah, truck said 38 when I jumped in a bit before 5am to head to masters this morning. Apparently I am going to have to break out some of the cold weather gear for my ride tomorrow.

On a completely different note, has anyone heard or seen what the new swag is for this year? The backpacks from last year were awesome, and was looking forward to seeing what was in store this year.

Yep.  Got in the car this morning and was like "Well there is one arm warmer, need to find the other before tomorrow."  Ha.

Got the bike back from the shop, wished they would have trimmed the cables more but it'll work for now. Still waiting on my Flo wheels to show up.