Ironman Louisville : Official Thread (Page 32)

• What is the swim like?
  The Louisville swim is the most unique swim on the IM calendar. Louisville is a time trial start while every other US Ironman is a wave start. The start order is “first come, first served,” and the countdown for the swim cutoff begins when the LAST person gets in the water. This is how it works out on race day:

   

  • Get your transition set up and then you’ll walk about half mile upriver to a small park/dock to get in line. Your position in line is your position in the line, and the earlier you get in line, the closer you are to the front, the closer to 7am you get in the water and the more time (see swim cutoff note above) you have to complete the swim.
  • At 7am the first age-grouper gets in the water and the organizers do their best to start the next and the next and the next in 1-2 second intervals. You can do the math, but in ’07 it took them about 37 minutes to get everyone in the water. In ’08 it took 45 minutes. If you are in danger of not making the swim cutoff, it behooves you to get in line very, very early.
  • You will swim upriver, but between an island and the mainland, so there is very little to no current. You’ll swim past the end of the island a few hundred meters, make a left and a left again into the current, then swim downriver to the swim exit and transition area. It’s funky, but if you look at the historical swim times from the event you’ll see that they look to be on par with every other Ironman swim. More importantly, everyone has to do it so it’s not a big deal.
    
    This is from the endurance nation report of 2009 http://www.endurancenation.us/blog/2009/08/11/ironman-louisville-2009-race-preview/
    
    So do I understand that the cutoff for the swim is after the last person who enters the river?
    
    I sincerely apologize for my craziness..;-)...Alicia
    

The much anticipated...I'm mean, the thing some of you were wondering about...rather, I think one of you was somewhat curious about when I would post another terribly exciting Road to Ironman video.
Well, Episode 5 is up. Simply go to my blog which is linked in my signature, then scoll down in my blog and select Episode 5, which will be found on the right hand side.
You will find that I did not speak loudly or clearly enough. I'm still learning, please excuse. When I think I am doing these things, I find out later that I am not.
Anyway...it is there for the viewing if you want to see it.
Peace.