Ford Ironman Wisconsin : Official Thread (Page 36)

I am so sorry to hear about your daughter and will keep your family in my prayers. I will be at the Friday dinner with a big group of my Tri friends. I hope to meet up with everyone too !

Nicole

21 Days!

I hope the rain yesterday didn't affect all those who were doing the MOWS and follow on course ride.  I wish you could of had today's weather.  How did it go for those who participated?

Swim race was delayed about an hour and a half while the storms blew through. High winds blew the registration tents all over the place and blew the buoys off the course as well. 

They reset the buoys as best they could, but the big turn buoys were not in the right spots so the swim was a wee bit long... like 2.8 vs. 2.4. Times were slow, the water was choppy. 

Weather cleared up nicely, but due to the delay, we didn't get onto our bikes and onto the bike course until almost 1 pm. And we rode until about 7:30 pm. It started raining toward the end and my pal and I just gave up. It'd been a long day. We got 92 out of 112 miles in and that seemed like more than enough.  Rode the stick out, did 2 loops of the course and bailed. 

Good luck to everyone as we head towards your taper (whenever that may be)...my taper is scheduled to start this week but I think I have one more long run in me...i did a 6 hr bike ride on the trainer at 3 am on Friday (totally sucked) but had to so I could get to the hospital in time...I think that is it for my long bikes.

thanks for all of the prayers and well wishes....anyone have any luck taping pictures to the bottom side of their visor / hat for raceday??

The announce everyone to start entering the water at least 20 min. or so before the start.  It takes awhile, and there are STILL persons walking in just when the cannon goes off.

Yep, first come and try to grab a spot in the open water and tread around for awhile (you'll have a wetsuit on so it shouldn't be a problem).
Many persons try to get near the ski jump (you'll know what I mean when you see it).
With 2300 or more athletes in the water, it will be congested and a huge battle.  It'll be hard to avoid getting kicked, pummeled, swatted, almost swum over for quite awhile.

My best advice - STAY RELAXED and swim YOUR race, and you'll be fine!

Good luck!

6 hours on the trainer!  You deserve a medal for that.

That seems like plenty!  Especially with the rain!

My group finished at almost the same time.  We just did two laps on the loop.  I also saw the double rainbow.  It was neat because you could easily see both sides of it. Cool.

I am not fast/not slow and did WI last year (in 1:23). 1TT had great advice, my only other suggestion would be as they are singing the national anthem and counting down, try to move your body from vertically treading water to horizontal - spread out your body and claim a few extra inches if you can.

Someone may have said that already in this thread. But I remember last year's start getting kicked a lot in the chest, I'm guessing just from thousands of bodies moving from vertical to horizontal at once. Don't misunderstand, you will still get kicked , but getting into "position" earlier might minimize some of it.

OK, so fess up!  Anyone else stalking the IMWI website waiting for the Athlete's Guide to post??

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