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Congrats on your accomplishments today!!

Funny thing is... I saw that you posted on the thread and the first thing I thought was... Jim must have gotten up early this morning for a workout.  YAY!!

Shiggy,

Took a couple minutes and some company resources and put this together for you!  Please note, it's just to compare scale.....

The blue is the Muncie course.  The magenta is the silverman course here in Nevada.  Granted, the Silverman is one of the tougher courses, but most people can handle the hills.  I never saw anyone walking them.  I think in comparison, the Muncie doesn't look to bad and I think you should have no issues.  I think it just looked bad in the profile view due to the exagerated vertical scale.

I swim inside at the gym.  But there are a couple outdoor pools that I know are open year round....

I have to interject on this one.  I used to live in central Oregon.  The town had a wonderful outdoor pool that was heated with hot spring water.  It was open year round.  I loved going to the pool in the middle of winter with snow piled up all over the place and steam rising all around me!  The trip to and from the locker room was not very pleasant, though!

Oh!  That's really cool, Jim!  I want to do that with some of my routes!   I love comparing my routes!

Tis easy!

First go to mapmytri.com (or mapmyrun.com) and do the same thing that you would do here to put in a route.

Once the route is in, just below the map is the elevation button.  Hit that and you get the profile.  In the bottom right is a tiny link that says "CVL data" Or "CVS data ", or something like that - you should see it.

If you click that, it will ask you to open or save - pick whichever you want.  It will open into an excel file that has a couple columns.  Obviously, you want the mile marker and the elevation.  Just create a graph using excel.

For this instance though, I had to do it twice for each route and merge the data (cut and paste), I shifted all of the silverman data down a couple hundred feet so both profiles start at the same "baseline" for easier comparision.  Voila!

WOOT!!! Congratulations !!

oooh, graphs!!!!! nerd that i am, i love graphs!!!!!

i find this a great graph to pick races, if you ever think about going long.  unfortunately, it's limited to NAS races, but it's pretty instructive.

way to go lauren for picking the HARDEST BIKE COURSE EVAR!

claire, note your bike profile, if you put it to scale against this, looks like florida - considered the flattest IM there is, way fast course.  click on the race name to toggle its elevation. 

http://www.nasports.com/compare/comparebike.php 

bah, the silverman IM is rougher than the lake placid course.  OK, now I'm gloating.....

sorry....

is it?  LP looks like a delta of 1500 from min to max (they put all of them starting at zero so they could be more easily compared), and that whole change happens over about 40+ miles.  from your graph the min to max of silverman looks like 1200ft.

either way, they both look hard to me!  i'd put both in a category of "something i don't want to do".  kudos to both of you, but i'll stick to the flat races, thank you very much .  oh, and the short ones too .  tee hee.

Here's a link that allows you to compare IM courses. Silverman excluded.

Rock on. congrats. Just stay focused on your current season, and once that ends, start looking to Fla 70.3!

I'm an excel idiot.  I got the numbers into an excel spreadsheet but I can't seem to create a graph.   Geez, the time I'm wasting!

I humbly recant.  IMLP is a beast!  I compared the two and they are both super nasty.  I have been wasting some serious time, but what else I'm I to do at work?!?!?!?

Both are out of my league.  If I actually attempt the Silverman, I may HAVE to do another IM that's flat to see how fast I can go.

As a matter of fact, all the tri's here in Vegas are on the same course.  Maybe that's why I seem to pathetically slow!  (I'll just keep telling myself that, heh!)

I may take you up on that.  In fact, I have Lots-O-family in FL (Miami), so I may be interested in doing IMFL next year or the 70.3.

Anyone know if it's super hard to get into?  When would I need to sign up or is 09 allready sold out?

Registration for 70.3 hasn't opened yet and from what I understand, won't sellout until the end of the year. 

Thank you!!!!!!  Wow, that is sooooo helpful! Also, now I know never to try Silverman 

Does anyone know how the bike on IM KY compares? Not an NA race, so not on the compare bike courses link as the other IMs are up there. I've read lots of posts here on BT that those hills are tough.

x2 on the 70.3. For IMFL, same drill as others - your best bet is to register on site the day after, or try your luck online.

I figure a family member can't do it for you like IMAZ.  Oh well, need an excuse to go to Florida!  When is the race so I can start making my arrangements?

Nevermind, I'll look it up!

November...might interfere with your race, but I don't know the dates of either. Yeah, no 3rd party registration anymore...

So I looked up all the IM races (Ford Series).  All the US and Canada races are sold out (to be expected) but I'm surprised how many over seas races are still open for this year.

IM Japan anyone?  THAT would be a dream race for me....

Anyway, I may drive down to IMAZ this Nov to see if I can sign up for 09 (I think that's how it works) or go to FL.  I think those are the only two places I can convince my better half to go.....

IMFL 09?  Could that me a new goal?  hmmmmm.....

Couple weeks after the race, so I'm golden......

Now for IMAZ.  I think they started registration after this year's spring race, no?  I wonder if there are spots open for 09 after the fall race.  I think I will post on the IM forum...

Quoted myself....

I was a little off.  IMFL is the weekend before the race.  During my taper so important workouts would have to be missed and it could give me some motivation!  So that should work out.

IMAZ is a couple weeks after my race, so that works too.