Ironman Kansas 70.3 (Page 4)

lisac957 - 2008-06-03 4:29 PM I said in the other thread I don't want to be around you nervous nelly's Saturday night! However. What about meeting up at the Expo or bike drop off? We all have to do that at some point.

Sounds great to me - I'd love to meet you all   I'm getting in Fri night & should be able to meet about any time Sat . . .  Kinda funny that it takes traveling to KS to meet the local NE BT'rs :P

Renee

Is it just me, or does it seem crazy that this workout has the word TAPER as part of it????  Ok, so I am NOT a good swimmer, so 4000 seems like an eternity to swim and will take me WAY longer than 80 minutes, so that isn't helping . . . but still - this swim on top of a 2.5 hour bike and 15 min run - that is TAPER???  I think I'll just double check on this one . . . not sure I'll get a response in time, but I'll try . . .

Swim: IM Taper - KEY WORKOUT
80
4000

This tapering is a lot of work . . . I'm looking forward to recovery, LOL!!

Renee

Sounds like you are on the right track . . . I got a response already - here is part of it:

"Good question and thanks for providing the info on your swim. Cut the swim to 60', the ride to 1:45 - 2 hrs' and still put in the 15' run off.

You are right that you are in taper now leading into the 1/2IM. These times for the training can flex based on individuals."

HAPPY TAPERING ALL!!!

Getting close now . . .

weatherchannel.com sucks!  They change their forcasts like ever 2 hours.  It can be sunny and 10% chance of rain and then the next day it changes to 70% storms and windy. Then the next day it changes back.  I'm talking even the forcast for like 2 days down the road. It really sucks.

jazz82482 - 2008-06-06 2:06 PM

lisac957 - 2008-06-06 2:33 PM

jazz82482 - 2008-06-06 1:18 PM

climbin5414 - 2008-06-06 2:08 PM

jazz82482 - 2008-06-06 1:02 PM The heat is on, up here in Michigan, so I can finally train in 'race-like' conditions. Up until this week it's been around 60 with no humidity, whereas this AM, it was 85 and 70% humidity- big difference!

Def take advantage while you can. Sounds like that will a pretty accurate forcast for the race.

Oh yeah- I had some nice 12mph+ winds as well. Ahh, Kansas, here I come!!

I ran in 50mph winds last night, that was fun.

Wow, that's intense.

 Yeah i've been running and riding in 35+mph winds all week! Yesterday was the worst though, thats why i skipped the bike ride.  I'm a little furthur south here in Tulsa oklahoma.