Ironman St. George : Official Thread (Page 27)

Us cold weather folks don't like that kind of talk    Or at least I don't anyway!

Hey gwbuild, should be someone leaving from the ballpark at 8 and 9. My crew of 3 will be leaving from the bank parking lot at the finish line on Main St. at 9am for one sedate loop and a t-run on course. There will be a womens century ride staging from the same parking lot so if you can stomach seeing hundreds of women in tight spandex, please join us.

Hmmm... how are they going to fit a 56 mile bike leaving from Sand Hollow for the swim?

Interesting, according to google maps Sand Hollow to Veyo to downtown St. George is about 56.6 miles exactly. So no more climbing "The Wall" it seems.

Edit: New maps are all posted already my bad. http://www.atozion.com/ironmanstgeorge.php

You're correct.

Perhaps the day before there can be the "Veyo Wall Inaugural time trial" for old time's sake...

This is good to hear, because i've definitely spent the past week or so with very minor soreness and feeling a bit tired.  I'm doing  a short sprint race tomorrow and was hoping that would perk me up a bit, but the priority I suppose should really be on taking it easy tomorrow instead.

edit: Although i have noticed that during my workouts this week, while not feeling particularly great, and without "actually" pushing hard, my hour-long runs and other bike rides have been covering a greater distance than I've covered previously this season, as well as faster.   So if my hour long run is 30 minutes out, 30 minutes back, I've been covering more distance in the 30 minutes out than I have previously, and my run back is like 27 minutes or so.  I even have to keep it in my head to stay at a moderate pace, but the numbers seem to accidentally pop up.

No more Veyo. No more Wall. They are taking it up through Snow Canyon State park and then out on to Hwy 18 and down to St. G. The climbs inside Snow Canyon are long and brutal. I think far more difficult than anything on the current course. And then there is that run. This will be a great 70.3.

A women's century eh? That sounds dangerous. I could be distracted into a hundred mile ride which just isn't a part of my taper.

I may just have to take one for the team on this one though. Its a rough life, but someone's gotta do it...

A friend just sent this poem about the taper. Cracks me up.

Taper Time Tantrum

'I cannot run again today,'

Said little Betty Ann Bengay.'

My quads are cramped.

My nerves are shot.

I think I might have purple snot.

My arch is pulled.

My glutes are sore.

My back it doesn’t bend no more.

My feet they have this awful smell.

I have another black toenail.

My elbow aches each time I pee.

And what’s that grinding in my knee?

I have a stress fracture.  In my skull.

My friends, they say, I’m full of bull.

I think I may have pulled a lung.

Eleven miles ain’t a REAL long run!

My legs they are no longer speedy.

My husband thinks I’m really needy.

If I run more will I get faster?

Will micro-tears just cause disaster?

I think that I should carbo-load.

Uh oh. No way. Where’s the commode?

My glycogen is kinda spent.

I know my shin, it needs a splint.

My singlet smells like something funky.

And don’t you think my butt looks chunky?

My IT band no longer bends.

When will this taper ever end?

My hamstrings hurt and--what?

What’s that you say?

You say today is...marathon day?

G'bye.  I’m going out to run.

Hi all, long time listener, first time poster on this board. So it looks like the water will be in the mid-60s - what are people doing for wetsuits, full or john?

My inclination is a john given a race I just did with water at 63, and my full felt a bit much for that...I will have an insulated cap in case, but I'm thinking I would rather travel with just one wetsuit.

Cheers! Pat

Good food for thought...thanks!

New aches are just pure mental torture.  My achilles gave me a 20 second scare on Wed. during a one hour run.  It's went away after 15-20 steps and has not resurfaced.  That's just plain cruel.