Ironman St. George - Utah : Official Thread (Page 27)

What a weekend.  Even with all my family commitments, I managed to run 2:20hrs on Saturday and brick 6:20hrs/30mins on Sunday.  The only thing is that I did half the training in the morning and half in the afternoon on both, but hey I did it...

Next weekend is 2:00hrs run on Saturday and brick 5:30hr/30mins on Sunday and I'm done!

Hello and good morning to all you current and future Ironman triathletes!!

My name is Sue Jones and I am a direct representative of the M Dot corporation. The reason I’m writing to you today is that we have been monitoring this forum (as well as other websites) and based on the contents have decided to make some exciting changes for the inaugural St George Ironman race. This is directly related to your input and we hope that all will be happy with our efforts.

SWIM- After much debate over the subject it has come to our attention that most competitors feel that being required to swim in mid 50 degree water is not desirable or fair. As a result of this we have already started the process of warming the water and hope that by race day it will be at 79.9 degrees. We have also made some small rule changes and will be allowing the usage of flotation devices and have supplied a few SeaDoos to tow a couple of large inflatable yellow bananas around for those who find the swim to be too much effort. The swim will of course be optional on the whole and we are now opening sign ups for anyone who would rather spend the 1-2 hrs playing ring pick up, water volleyball, or the every popular Marco Polo (based on the forums we expect these will fill up rather quickly so sign up right away).

BIKE- In all honesty this course was thrown together rather quickly and we simply didn’t realize how many crazy hills it had on it! For that we apologize and have made the following adjustments. All athletes will ONLY be required to ride through designated “Crowd Viewing Areas” these areas will be limited to 200 yards in length and we will be supplying shuttles at the end of each area to transport you and your bike to the beginning of the next “Crowd Viewing Area”. We understand that this will leave large gaps of unaccounted time in your race day, so we have hired several bands to help pass away the time in the athlete only areas!!!

RUN- Lets face it 26.2 miles is a long way to run while not being chased, and asking you to do that after a tuff morning of Marco Polo and carting you on and off shuttle busses hardly seems fair, but add in hills?!?! That’s just plain mean!! So we have decided to cover the run course with conveyer belts to ensure that all will be able to complete the fun day with a smile!!

Now with these new changes we are aware that we will undoubtedly not be able to make everyone happy, but we feel based on this and other forums that this race was simply to hard for us to fairly call an Ironman. Please be aware of your other competitors and keep these changes to yourself. Let’s face it many of the athletes have built a lot of their self worth and ego based on how “hard” this race was when compared to others. Not that the swim could come close to Alcatraz, or the bike anywhere near Savage man, or the run even close to Kona, but compared to Arizona and Florida this race was a MONSTER!

If we have missed anything or you have any further questions please feel free to email me at

[email protected]

Otherwise enjoy the race and we will see you at the finish line!!!

Bib Numbers have been assigned! #165 for me. Now this feels real.

This is a very valid issue and I thank you for bringing it up. Due to economic times we will not be able to provide professional make up artist on race day, although we will be offering a free seminar at the expo on Thursday and Friday for make up application. (You didn't hear it from me, but Avon might have some free samples in your goody bag at packet pick up!)

Now that taper is on, I am going through my equipment checklists. I have almost no cold or wet weather gear so i am starting there, just in case. Anyone planning on using a neoprene cap or socks? If so, any feedback about them would be great, especially the socks.