Ironman Florida : Official Thread (Page 43)

15step - 2012-10-09 2:03 PM

bgraboski - 2012-10-09 1:34 PM

There is nothing finer than seeing the Dawgs get neutered!

Hey now, them's fightin' words..... (UGA grad here)

Should have told the football team to fight instead! 

(USC season ticket holder here, wife is USC grad)

Tri fit I had the same problem back in August and I can tell you what helped me.  My wife is a home healthh therapist and every night for about 1.5-2 weeks she would put a estim machine on me and I have felt fine since.  I never stopped training during this time either.

Not sure who posted the original question about getting a spot for IMFL, but I was on my computer at 1pm Eastern (12pm noon local) last year and got a spot for this year's race.  Perhaps I was lucky...

For those of you who are thinking about registering via computer...it's not that hard.  Just be ready to go 5-10ish mins ahead of time and keep clicking on the registration button until it opens up.  There's a bunch of questions on the form, most of which aren't necessary so ignore those.  Make sure you answer the required ones, have your credit card info ready and move through the form with good speed.  That's about it.  Good luck.

So what are thoughts about Dramamine in case of major chop?

All I can say is 11:59:59 or less

I would prefer to not fall asleep on my bike is what I would say.  The chop doesn't bother me.

For my first IMFLA, my 70.3 time earlier that year was 5:23 and my 140.6 time was 11:41. 

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My thoughts are that I would feed the fish as I swam. 

Usually calm as the wind comes out of the north.  You can check you tube videos and just do a search for Ironman Florida Swim 2011, 2010, 2009, etc.

There have been a few rough years, but that is the exception, not the norm.

they brought us inside and then there were dividers between the mens and womens rooms......I didnt' see the inside of the mens tent area   I thought it was the same

Last year we took a peek at the mens transition room and it just seemed bigger to me than what it did in 2010.  Could be because it was empty, but it just looked bigger.

I hope no women take offense to this, but I really think the men need a bigger room simply because there are just more men participants.  In 2010 there were over 1800 men participants compared to less than 600 women.  If there were more women I would say the same thing, but doesn't make much sense to me that both rooms would be the same size.

never having been in  the mens side I have no idea how big that area is   People complained about it being tight last year too.  Form the outside it looked like men had 2/3rd the area and woemn about 1/3 of the area.  I wasn;t really concentrating on how big each space was in the middle of my transitions

In 2010 we had a fairly major storm pass through a couple of days before the race.  If I remember right, at practice swim on Thursday, we had about 3 foot surf and 3 foot swells.  Pretty big water, I thought.  I'm prone to sea sickness.  We swam and played in the waves.  Sue taught us how to body surf.  How fun.   Anyway, with the cool water, and excitement and action of swimming I felt no sickness coming on.

In both 2008 and 2010, there was some swell but the seas were fairly flat.  I was fine.  One little exception,  in 2010 around the second turn buoy the waves were coming in just such a way that it rolled me back a fourth.  Stomach got a little queezy, I decided I would be fine, and just kept swimming.  It was fine.

Come to the practice swim.  I think you'll be fine, and enjoy it more than you think.  There's something about swimming that is much different than being on a boat.

Mostly the water is pretty calm there.

Look at the web cam on Schooners. It's just down the beach from the start. 

http://www.schooners.com/multimedia/beachcam.htm

That web cam is cool!!!!

I didn't eiher, but I did go look the night of the athlete meeting, (it's right on the other side of the curtain that seperates the large conference room from the transition rooms - stage right).

The room I saw definitely looked bigger than the one I changed in 2010, but hopefully a guy can shed some light on the subject.

I wear tri shorts for the swim and bike.  I like them better than bike shorts.  heck the only time I wear my bike shorts is on the trainer now. 

Anyway, last year I did throw on long sleeve top under my bike jersey.  Didn't seem too bad to get it on.  Also had arm warmers, jacket, gloves and running tights.  Yea, I didn't want to get cold and that explains a very long transition time.  I took my jacket off at SN but otherwise didn't remove anything until T2.  Never got warm.

As for swim chop.  Thursday and Friday last year was cold and we had a good amount of chop in the water.  Practiced in it so I would have been OK.  But come Saturday morning the water was like glass.  Great swim.

Duane