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 2012-05-19 7:13 PM in reply to: #4218484 |
Veteran  445   Chicago, Illinois |  Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed |
| 2012-05-19 7:27 PM in reply to: #4218497 |
Master 1780  Boynton Beach, FL | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Ernesto, Thanks for posting on facebook. Had been trying to follow Gabriel through IM site but the lag posting splits is insane. Go Gabriel!
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| 2012-05-19 7:47 PM in reply to: #4123283 |
Expert 2811 | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Gabe just crossed ! He is an IRONMAN! |
| 2012-05-19 7:54 PM in reply to: #4218527 |
Expert 1480 Somewhere in the Swamps of Philly | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed JBacarella - 2012-05-19 8:47 PM Gabe just crossed ! He is an IRONMAN! At 12hr 44' that was a helluva effort. Ernesto - buy that Ironman a beer!!! |
| 2012-05-19 7:58 PM in reply to: #4123283 |
Extreme Veteran 576 | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed WHOO. Will done Gabe. Good job. Enjoy a beer as you enjoy the moment. |
| 2012-05-19 8:09 PM in reply to: #4123283 |
Expert 1544 Alexandria, MN | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Congrats, that's a great time and an impressive effort, way to go! |
| 2012-05-19 8:28 PM in reply to: #4218538 |
New user 22 | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Congrats, Gabe! So impressive - enjoy your day in the sun. |
| 2012-05-19 8:56 PM in reply to: #4123283 |
Master 2238 Dallas | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed We have another maniac in the group! Gabe is an Ironman! |
| 2012-05-19 8:57 PM in reply to: #4123283 |
Expert 1544 Alexandria, MN | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Updated my totals and time from my damn race today.
- Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 13 / Rest Days 2 ; Total = 29 ; 19:29'08" |
| 2012-05-19 9:11 PM in reply to: #4218592 |
Veteran 445 Chicago, Illinois | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Gabe, you da man!! Congratulations. Rest day yesterday, 36 minutes run today - Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 13 / Rest Days 2 ; Total = 29 ; 19:29'08" |
| 2012-05-19 9:46 PM in reply to: #4123283 |
Master 3022 | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Gabe: Congratulations on earning the title of Ironman. You proved that hard work, dedication, consistency and blood,sweat and tears pay off in the end. Proud to be in a group with you! Awesome job!
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| 2012-05-19 9:49 PM in reply to: #4218592 |
Master 3022 | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Climbinggonzo - 2012-05-19 9:57 PM Updated my totals and time from my damn race today.
- Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 13 / Rest Days 2 ; Total = 29 ; 19:29'08" Don't forget you can get 1 point for a day with no workouts immediately before and after a race day. Just annotate the days as others have above. If you worked out the day before or after for more than 30 minutes in one discipline you get the point for that workout. Always required to end the month with 4 rest days where you do not accrue a point for any of the rest days. Price Waterhouse & Coopers has been contracted to audit the results of this months challenge (just joking). |
| 2012-05-20 12:00 AM in reply to: #4123283 |
Extreme Veteran 692 England | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Gabe, that's a fantastic result. Congratulations. Your training has shown complete consistency and dedication, and the outcome shows it. I hope you're going to have a few days of well-earned rest now. Enjoy the feeling of knowing that you are an IRONMAN! |
| 2012-05-20 12:00 AM in reply to: #4123283 |
Master 1609 Gold Coast Australia. | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Gabe, congratulations!!!! Yes, you da man, like Barry said. Your life is complete now  . |
| 2012-05-20 5:45 AM in reply to: #4123283 |
Master 2238 Dallas | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Talk about running a smart race! Gabe moved from 180th in his AG to 131th during the marathon, that is reeling in 49 dudes. Congratulations Gabe on the entry to the most exclusive Club in the planet, the one that no money can buy a ticket into. |
| 2012-05-20 6:12 AM in reply to: #4218769 |
Master 3022 | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed ernestov - 2012-05-20 6:45 AM Talk about running a smart race! Gabe moved from 180th in his AG to 131th during the marathon, that is reeling in 49 dudes. Congratulations Gabe on the entry to the most exclusive Club in the planet, the one that no money can buy a ticket into. I noticed that too. Thanks for highlighting for the group. Very cool. |
| 2012-05-20 6:18 AM in reply to: #4218603 |
Master 3022 | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed This morning: 13.1 miles running. Yesterday was a rest day. - Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 14 / Rest Days 3 ; Total = 30 ; 21:11'25" Edited by dangremond 2012-05-20 6:19 AM |
| 2012-05-20 8:49 AM in reply to: #4123283 |
Master 1780 Boynton Beach, FL | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Gabriel! Way to go! Nobody can take the Ironman tittle away from you, you earned it! Motivation for the rest of us mere mortals. Yesterday 25 mile ride (~1:30). My Garmin died on me so no data. Today a rest day, too tired from following Gabriel's IM yesterday. - Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 14 / Rest Days 3 ; Total = 30 ; 21:11'25" |
| 2012-05-20 9:18 AM in reply to: #4123283 |
| 97 | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Congrats!!!! Gabe and thanks Ernesto and jackie for the FB Updates . Felt like i was there cheering. who is next?? (think ill go run) |
| 2012-05-20 9:39 AM in reply to: #4218655 |
Expert 1544 Alexandria, MN | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed dangremond - 2012-05-19 9:49 PM Don't forget you can get 1 point for a day with no workouts immediately before and after a race day. Just annotate the days as others have above. If you worked out the day before or after for more than 30 minutes in one discipline you get the point for that workout. Always required to end the month with 4 rest days where you do not accrue a point for any of the rest days. Price Waterhouse & Coopers has been contracted to audit the results of this months challenge (just joking). Oh, I get it. Thanks for the heads up. I thought we just had to have at least 4 rest days. I guess I'd better take a closer look since I've had two races this month and that will change my rest days total, or at least the proper allocation of them. |
| 2012-05-20 10:13 AM in reply to: #4123283 |
Expert 1544 Alexandria, MN | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Changed the rest days on my totals to account for those from races, should my "Total" then include the addition of all workouts plus the rest days, or just the addition of all workouts plus the extra rest days because of races, not inclusive of the four mandatory ones? Or should the total just be the total workouts, no rest days included regardless of what type of rest day it was?: Edit: Ok, I think I get it. Someone just verify I have the total correct below, thanks! - Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 14 / Rest Days 3 ; Total = 30 ; 21:11'25" Edited by Climbinggonzo 2012-05-20 10:18 AM |
| 2012-05-20 12:47 PM in reply to: #4218920 |
Expert 1480 Somewhere in the Swamps of Philly | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed 48 min swim followed by a 1:38:22 run (12.03m). "A" race is three weeks from today. This week is peak hours and then the two week taper. - Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 14 / Rest Days 3 ; Total = 30 ; 21:11'25" |
| 2012-05-20 2:10 PM in reply to: #4123283 |
Master 1609 Gold Coast Australia. | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Forgot to update the scoreboard yesterday. Did 2hr bike ride for fun along the ocean. - Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 14 / Rest Days 3 ; Total = 30 ; 21:11'25" Edited by markz 2012-05-20 2:27 PM |
| 2012-05-20 3:19 PM in reply to: #4123283 |
Expert 1109 Guatemala | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Hola amigos, Thank you all for your messages and words of encouragement and for being on top of my race yesterday, it was a truly unique, amazing experience! I will give you a really short summary and promise to follow with a race report later on. First, it was incredible to be able to count with Ernesto's mentoring and Jackie's cheering during the weekend. They both went out of their ways to be here and it was so nice to be able to count with their presence and constant cheering! Also, since Ernesto had already done the race, he gave me all the good tips (e.g. when to enter the water for the OWS, what to expect in the bike and run, etc...) and picked me up at 4:30 am and drove me to the transition and OWS start. Additionally, he took care of my 7 month pregnant wife to make sure she was Ok during the race, which allowed me to focus on the race, so big thanks to both! Overall, my goal was not only to become an Ironman, but to make sure I enjoyed it to the fullest (the culmination of the journey) and if possible, to come in under 13 hours. The swim is such an exciting event when you have music blasting along with announcer Mike Reilley rallying the troops and directing everyone to jump into the water. I jumped in right after the Pro start, so only threaded water for about 8 minutes before the cannon went off. Then as expected, it was a total washing machine where I got punched, pulled and swum over several times for the first 500 yards, but kind of fun in a way as well. The water was so murky in the lake that you couldn't see your hand in front of you. After about 1000 yds I finally felt I had a constant rythm going. I was shooting for a time of 1:20 in the swim and came out in 1:24, so not too bad. The only challenge was a major cramp on my calve at the end of the swim start, what I kept on going with out kicking with that leg until the exit. Then on to the bike which was a loooong ride through the Woodlands and on to the countryside which is really nice, but way out there. Such a long ride provides you with a lot of time for self-reflection which is always nice. The course had a good number of rolling hills which compared to Guatemala, I though they were nothing to worry about. However, the combination of constant rolling hills, high heat and strong headwinds, especially through the last 40-50 miles of the ride, do take a toll on you. I really tried to focus on keeping a steady pace and my HR in check, while working on my nutrition in order to save as much as possible for the run. After about 4 hrs I started to get to a point where I was feeling bloated from gels and Ironman Perform and reduced their intake and focused on taking only water. I was shooting for a 6:00 bike ride and came in in 6:11. Then on to the run where I was thinking, o great now just a Marathon between me and those famous coveted words from Mike Reilley, so lets figure it out. I was advised to run the first six miles "stupidly slow", which ended being no problem since I was feeling really beat-up after the bike. My plan was to run from station to station (1 mile segments) and walk through the stations in order to stabilize my body and resume the calorie intake. After the first 5 miles I finally felt I was doing a little better and got into a system where I would take gels with water at one station and then IM Perform on the next one. During the run it was still very hot and humid outside, so I focused on looking at the race as only 1 mile segments at the time (best way to eat an elephant, in small pieces). The run was set-up in 3 loops and I got to see Ernesto and Jackie along with my wife a couple of times during a section of the loop next to the river, which provided great motivation. Long story short, when I got to the third loop, around mile 18, I literally had nothing left in the tank. Even worst, I got to a point were I could not see another gel nor IM perform drink and worried if I would be able to finish without any nutrition. So I new I was at the point where you have to dig deep, focus on "your 1 thing why you are there" and run with your heart. So I kept pushing trying to keep running without stopping in order to be able to finish in my target goal of under 13 hours, which by then was still within reach. When I hit mile 20 I literally hit the wall and thought that that was it and that it was impossible to reach my time goal. I began walking and even though I knew I was going to finish because I had enough time to walk to the finish line, its not the same as giving it your best and achieving your goals, especially being sooo close to the finish line. So I started focusing on smaller goals like running up to a post a 100 meters away and then to the next one and trying to ignore the pain and everything you experience at those stages. When I got to mile 22.5 I pulled the last bit of inspiration and ran almost non-stop while picking up my pace (if you look at my garmin file here for the run, you can see that I was crashing on mile 20 and then picked it up on mile 22.5 onwards) all the way to the chute, where by then I knew I was going to make it under 13 hours. My goal was 5:00 and ended up doing it in 4:54. Nothing sweeter than hearing Mike Reilley calling out "Gabriel Biguria you are an Ironman" and even better in a time of 12:44. And to top it all off, when I crossed the finish line, we had no other than Chrissie Wellington who handed me my finishers medal with a hugh! It is hard to describe the feelings that hit you at that final moment, but it is a truly unique, highly emotional experience, that like Mark Z, Erneto and Scott know, is for the rest of your life! http://connect.garmin.com/activity/180134775
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| 2012-05-20 3:27 PM in reply to: #4219127 |
Extreme Veteran 692 England | Subject: RE: Ernesto's group (4th season) - Closed Yesterday - 45min swim (was late for the swim session after work). Today - hill repeats. Managed one more than last time, although it did get a bit slow at the end. - Mitch: S 4 / B 12 / R 14 / Rest Days 3 ; Total = 30 ; 21:11'25" |
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