Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 27)

Haven't seen anything on wave starts yet.

OWS -- will hopefully start out in Medical Lake beginning of May or so. CDA prolly closer to Memorial Day weekend as I did last year. The good thing will CDA is that within the swim area you can swim and then stand up if need be. The distance from the steps to the ropes is a decent enough distance to do multiple laps. I feel safe enough to swim there alone (but probably won't due to safety reasons) within the swimming area. I did that with a friend last year where it wasn't that deep so when I needed to stop I just stood up. 

Does anyone else feel like trying to get together with us on the 20th for a ride on the course? I've never done any of the course but figure we would be riding south on the harder part of the course. Time frame to start? Oh and where should we start at? Is there a place just outside of town to park and start riding or park at the park and go from there?

you can park it at the library on the weekends and not get any tickets, if you dont want to park it there go pass the golf course a little ways and there are parking lots for the trail all along there. No matter where you start if you do the course its still 52 miles, and if you are feeling frisky you can go ride Higgins point again for a extra 12.

I'm in, unless something comes up between now and then.  I'd really like to do at least one loop and then maybe an hour run afterwards.  I'm not gonna be fast either - but I'm getting anxious to get out there and see where I stand - I've done nothing but trainer work to this point.

Someone can decide where we should park at. I've been there a handful of times but as to where we park I'll need just a little bit of help. My plan calls for 3:30 on the bike that day so I'm guessing about 65-70 miles of riding. I don't have a run scheduled afterwards but I could always go on a short run as well just for fun.

It will be interesting to see how things go for me on the hills. I've not done much hill work on the bike this year and the little hill work I've done has been with my 12-25 cassette. I'm getting a 11-28 cassette today so it will be interesting to see how that works on the hills. 

A time I would like to start would be around 9:30 - 10:00. Hoping the weather will be nice enough at that point. I haven't paid much attention to how warm it is at that time of day quite yet. 

I usually just pay to park at the main parking lot near the race finish.  If there is free parking somewhere nearby, the library is free?  Let us know! 

930-10 start time sounds great to me, lets me sleep in til 6-7, get some breakfast in me and get things together for the 40 minute easy drive over.

I kind of feel like it is Narnia here in Michigan, always winter.  Did a brick workout today and ended up getting snowed on while riding.  Looking at the extended forecast doesn't look good either.  I guess open water swimming won't be happening in the near future.

Very nice bike!  I'll immediately know it's Erin when I see that...

Just finished off week 10 with a nice run that was just shy of 10 miles.

10 weeks to go!

I know how you feel.  I did a 18 mile trail run and I wasn't sure if it was raining really hard.........till I realized it was sleeting really hard. 

Less than 70 days to go.  I'm feeling half prepared.  Not sure how good that is, but it's how I feel.

Erin,

There will be no mistaking your bike.  It is very unique.  How great is it to get a new bike in plenty of time to have it ready for your race?  I did that last year and I loved it.  Right about the time I was starting to get a little worn out or burned out on training here comes this sweet new ride.  Made my day.

Chris

That's exactly how I feel. I'm sure I could go out tomorrow and do well in a HIM - but when I think about doubling that... not so much.   Only seven weeks of workouts until taper, doesn't seem like it's enough - guess I just have to trust the plan.

Coeur D'Alene

Sat Apr 13

46^°

32^°

Rain / Wind

Chance of rain: 70%

Wind: SW at 20 mph

Yay, more snow in Colorado.  Ugh.  Good part is that I'm going to Phoenix for work tonight.  While Denver is covered in snow, I will be running speed intervals around Tempe Town Lake in shorts and a tank top at 4,000 ft lower elevation.  Yay for oxygen!

I hear you guys with feeling like I'm not training enough.  My long ride is 70 miles (Saturday) and I ran 10 miles yesterday.  But, in reality, I had a good weekend. 

• Friday: masters swim team and 35 miles including a 3100 ft climb up Deer Creek Canyon
• Saturday: 70 miles (50 outside with 2700 ft climbing and 20 miles on the trainer b/c it was windy)
• Sunday: 10 mile run of hills (1000 ft climbing according to my 910) at a pace 10 sec/mile faster than a shorter run the week prior.  On dead legs.

So really, a solid weekend of training. Triathletes are so funny, always tending to want to do MORE.  :facepalm:

rbalazs - so scary on your clot!  I hope it resolves soon.

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Wish you the best of luck in getting healthy again. 

So who is in for this saturday say at 10am to meet at the park where the bike starts? Who knows what the weather will bring us for certain though. 

I am in and I just noticed my weather report was from this past Saturday, something really wonky with my work computers date/time, that's not the first time it's happened.

Sure hope this turns out for the best.....I am sure this frustrating but it sounds like it could have been worse. Keep us posted, I am hoping you are able to crush the CDA course.

It's 50/50 chance for me on Saturday.  My Son has a swim meet Friday and if he qualifies for finals I will not be going Saturday.   I will check in again on Friday to see who all is going. 

So much tragedy this week.    I missed out qualifying for Boston last year, and was a blessing as this bombing would have been around my finishing time.

Anxious and jumpy...

So this week is a "rest week". I had nothing on my schedule for Monday, plus I didn't feel good so I layed on the couch and watched movies while it snowed. It was a beautiful thing. Tuesday felt better did an easy 60 trainer ride, followed by an easy 30 minute.

Tuesday at work I started feeling jumpy, couldn't relax, my felt like I had to move my legs. That night while trying to watch a movie I started to feel some anxiety, to the point I took one of my wife anxiety pills, which helped.

Today I'm still a little jumpy I did a nice smooth 2300 yards in the pool.

Have others experienced anything like this?

Is it from a lack of intense training my body is used too?

Thanks from Jumpy in Colorado :-(