Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas 2012 : Official Thread (Page 32)

Some of us may still be on the course for a few more hours . 

Second 100 miler for me.  Even got the opportunity to practice changing a tire on the road.  Went smoothly, but slowly.  I guess I need to practice a little more.  I have a HIM next weekend, which I am doing as supported training, not racing.  And then 2 more long rides, and 2 more long runs. 

I have started making my lists of what to take, and more importantly looking for good places to eat in the days before and after the race.  Seem like a lot of good options in The Woodlands.

The whole day is the celebration of making it to the start line after months and months of training. Just a nice long catered training day in perfect temps with no wind.... Here's to dreaming

You summed up my ride. I am use to sweating like hanging out in a furnace on the trainer doing a long ride and changing shirts 5x, to getting out by Lake Michigan and my toes freezing and just having a chill over me for hours.

Karen, I would pay ZERO attention to speed on a trainer.  It's about as useless a number as you can get. It's a completely made up garbage number since you're technically not moving.  It's just some goofy algorithm that bares no resemblance to outdoor numbers.  A Computrainer might be slightly more real world accurate but it's still bunk.

Power is the absolute only thing I care about on the trainer, followed by cadence at a distant second.  RPE, HR and cadence if you don't have a power meter.

Long weekend out of town put a halt to anything I could have done. Now the little one is running fever so my 90 miler for tomorrow is out the window but not a big deal, I will be able to get it done on Thur. I have had pretty crappy consistency in my training for this race and I know that I am under trained for sure but really still feel that I can do the distance. It will be SLOW, but I WILL get it done! I am starting to get nervous but am also getting really excited! Maybe I'm just nuts!

I am also in the boat where I am really trying to make my training not impact the kids and wife too much. Probably going to really try to make the next 6 weeks as easy on them as humanly possible.

What are you copying me? I was getting so close to dropping to sub 200 and then a couple of rough weeks at work, wife on spring break, this and that and bam 209 again

I used them last year as well and just ordered mine for this year. I usually just have them send it a week early so I know I have it before I leave town and can test it out. I searched over the weekend but wasnt able to find any discount codes for their product, and I think shipping is worked into the cost to rent the product. I dont remember having to pay extra last year and they include a self addressed envelope to send it back to them when you are done

Rest week - I need it.  Running a long catered run this coming Monday (Boston Marathon).    This will be my last really long run before Ironman TX.

Hope everyone is having a good week.  Not much longer.

Not racing, but I should be there to do the ride. I'll keep an eye out. Hope to meet some people.

A new bike map is posted on the Ironman Texas website!  Still one loop and 95% of the route is the same as last year - just some slight changes.

Bike ON!!