Ironman 70.3 Timberman : Official Thread (Page 3)

Some notes for those new to this venue:

1. There is a bit of rain forecast from now thru Friday night. If it rains a lot, the transition area will be wet. It is mostly grass, with a cross of a dirt/sand road in the park. If it rains a real lot, there could be standing water in the grass area. Good way to clog up your bike shoe cleats if you transition out with them on your feet.

2. At the start of the bike, when you turn onto Rte. 11 and go up the hill. Avoid hugging the guardrail, the new paving has created quite a drop for the road water drains. There are a handful of them and if you ride over them, you could very well wreck your bike and your race. 

3. When walking to the swim start, avoid walking amongst the picnice tables to your right, off of the beach. There are many, many short tree stumps and roots that are waiting to break your big toe. Watch where you walk over there. I hit most of them every time I swim. :-) 

4. If the front that comes thru is strong enough Friday night, there could be a good NW wind which is the prevailing across the Broads of the Lake. This will give us whitecaps. But, the wind will be at your back once you make the turn to the right, out of the start.

5. If you are not doing anything else Saturday night, there is a pasta dinner benefit at the Elks in Gilford to raise funds for a local girl who lost her glass eye while swimming. The family's dad is a disabled veteran and they are having a tough time. The Laconia PD is putting this on. COme one , come all! 

Have a great race, all. The Ironman Semi is on-site!

Local weather just said storms will clear by early Sat am and Sunday will be sunny, low humidity and a high of 80.  Sounds delightful! 

I am in awe of all of your training numbers!  I am doing the swim leg of a relay team so I've been swimming a lot but maybe 40 miles total? I'm not sure since I quit keeping track the last month or two and began to swim just for time as constantly monitoring my laps was driving me crazy!  Jogging and walking for crosstraining. I'm a single mom too, so training time is super short.  Been OWS once a week with friends.  I think that's the best thing I've done.  We go about a mile but the running joke is I probably always do 1.2 since my sighting is horrific.  One swim I ended up in a cove and another my friend thought I was going to crash into a docked boat.  Can't wait for some feet to draft off of and those big orange buoys!  LOL

I hope everyone has a great race!

ok, I'll play too. 

Bike - 2361

Run - 942

Swim - oops.  I'm naturally a fairly strong swimmer so I don't do a lot swim training.

I'm only doing the bike leg of a relay at Timberman, though I'm doing the Rev3 Half in Maine next weekend.  I'm also a Wish racer this year, in honor of my nephew who is aWish recipient and Ambassador.  He has an inoperable brain tumor and will be volunteering at the race with his mom (my sister).

I went to running 5 or 6 days a week, almost all easy pace, this year and have been totally healthy.  And I now LOVE running!  And my times have improved a lot.  I now longer believe to get faster you have to run faster.

Thanks for the tips.  I love the Timberman bike course, even though it's rough in spots.  Good luck everyone, stay healthy, and have a great race.

Any ideas if this is wetsuit or not yet?, And I also did not see any glass but got a flat. It was kinda strange, not sure if there is something on the roads?

mike

wbayek:

I'm sorry to hear about your nephew, I can relate to what that is like - my newphew had two types of cancer at age 2: lukemia and a nuroblastoma tumor in his chest around his heart and lungs - MAKE A WISH is a wonderful group and they treated him and his family well.  It brings tears to my eyes to see them run on Saturday.  My nephew is now 7 and doing well - he is cancer free and being monitored.  I wish you guys the best.

Hopefully I can find a way to run those kinds of numbers, I'm in for IMLP next year and better get serious!!!

How'd everyone's race go? 

What a beautiful day!!

Congrats Todd!  That is an amazing time on a difficult course!

I only did the swim and it was my first time at that distance and only my 2nd tri with men.  I learned so much today!  Really happy that I held my line, wasn't intimidated and made it through in one piece.  I was slower than I thought I'd be - only by a couple of minutes so not too bad though I'm slow to start with ( I really need a couple of lessons and learning how to sight would be really helpful.  I lost so much time after the last turn for home.  Swam totally off course.  Couldn't see with the sun in my eyes.)

I was surprised how choppy the water was along the back straightaway.  I was being tossed around and up and down!   

It was a great day for a tri...the times below make me embarrassed to say that I was happy with my 6:21 time and that my goal is to get down to 5:45.  You guys have some great times.

Looked like a Mercedes SUV may have had some type of encounter with a cyclist.  Anyone know anything about that?

First off, congrats to all that participated, race day was awesome - the weather was great. I was in the M30-34 group and the swim out was a bit crowded, first buoy turn right was tough on sighting to the 2nd turn buoy due to the sun, followed the swimmers in front of me hoping they were going in the right direction other than that the swim was good. The bike wasn't too bad either, I drove the course the day before w/ a friend, so I knew what to expect somewhat w/ the hills. Some of the down hills were a bit sketchy due to the rough roads, but I was able to maneuver - topped out at about 46mph on one of the downhills. The run was great, a lot of good crowd support and the aid stations were well stacked w/ good options.

This was my 2nd HIM, first was Eagleman last year where I finished 6:24. My goal was to beat that by an hour or at least somewhere close to 5:30, ended up finishing 5:35:21 - which I'm definitely happy with.

My brother found this - I even made it on Linsey Corbin's race day vid http://youtu.be/J0sNDxhVu6s@2:40 - running in the blue tri top  

Awesome day, and you guys rock.  I did this as the bike leg of a relay team, and we won the relay division.  Due to the wave assignments and fact that our swimmer went 27:30, I was able to get to the front of the age groupers about mile 12 and hang on before the fast kids like Paul caught me.

It was a HUGE thrill to ride out in front and to be the first age groper back into transition.  For a ham and egger like me, it was surreal to enter transition in a race this size with no bike there.  Now it's my own half at Rev 3 Old Orchard Beach this weekend.