Ironman Louisville : Official Thread (Page 50)

BIF has a 4 hr bike/30 min run on Sat and a 2 hr run on Sunday. So that sounds about right. Now probably isn't the time to start questioning and modifying your plan. And don't forget that this is a 3 wk taper so the volume won't drop immediately.....it tapers.

Trust the plan!  

Hold back on intensity if you feel draining  this weekend, but trust your plan and put in the time.  

Trust the plan... i had to adjust the days of mine this week due to going out of town for a wedding.

so im doing 4:30 saturday bike
and 1:05 recovery spin sunday

somewhere this weekend I was susposed to do a 2:15 / 55 brick... doing that tonight.. only problem is the 115* heat index...

Was any one training for weight loss?  How did you do?  Don't forget to cut down on total calorie intake as you taper. 

This was / is my "ideal time" too, but we'll see what happens. 

Is anyone here doing the BT beginner plan like I am?  After my 2hr run today, my longest bike is 2 hrs.  I am going to trust it and go with it, but I'm a little concerned.  Now, I will say, that those 2 hr bikes are going to be a hard two hours, but still.  The other thing I did was I extended my ride last week from the scheduled 2 hr 20 min. ride to a 4 + hour ride, so I got in a little more time.

At what mile markers are the checkpoints for the bike and run course? Thanks!

I used the BT Beginner plan for my first Ironman.  Rest assured that the plan know where it's taking you.  I had never felt more ready for anything in my life. 

I should probably be paying a bit more attention to this. I have felt a little soggy lately, I am drinking a ton of water to stay hydrated so that might be it. No more fast food for me!

Past BT groups have met at The Old Spaghetti Factory on the corner of 3rd. and Market. Easy to find, low priced, can handle large groups, and carbo loaded.

I was searching for other places and saw that Bluegrass Brewing Company has $3 imperial pints for bicyclists on fridays.  We count as bicyclists right? 

Monday was a 3000m swim and 6 mile run
Tuesday was a 6 mile run
Wednesday was 30/3 brick
Thursday 8 mile run
Friday 3500m swim and 6 mile run 
Sat. 65/7 brick
Sun. 14 mile run 

That sounds delicious.   I'm in.

That's a lot of running!!! Has ur volume been that night the who's time?

Ok, so what motivated you to do Louisville.  What will motivate you during the race.  What makes you take that one extra step.

I'll start.  Nothing has ever come easy.  My mom and dad both having heart attacks and diabieties.  I got fat and saw a picture of me holding my daughter on the beach.  I cried.  I said no more, not this day!  I said I will do the biggest baddest MF there is known to man!  I will be in shape and I will be a role model to my 3 babies.  In the last 18 months I went from scratch to 15 triathlons, 3 being HIM, 3 1/2 Mary's and 26.2.  I like what I see now and I am not even close to being done!  And now this.  I am not even close to knowing what I have got myself into but I know this, I will finish and when I need motivation I will look at pictures of my babies and that picture of me on the beach. Oh yeah,  Losing a great banking job last year, moving 2 states away from our families, to get a new one 12 months later, still training.   Need more motivation....My wife getting on a plane for the first time after being stuck in Amsterdam that week of and losing her sister on Flight 93 on 9/11.    She hasn't been on a plane since I picked her up that Friday September 14, 2001 at Dulles.  She quite her job at United.  But for me, so I don't have to drive 13 hours there, do an Ironman, and drive 13 back, she is getting on a plane.  You damn right I will finish this race.  Motivation you say! 

What will motivate you?  If you care to share.

Edited by hrliles 2010-08-12 8:02 PM

Can't even touch that and am not going to try.  Good luck!!

What motivated me initially was the fact that I was overweight to where I knew my life was going to end short.   I was 300 pounds, and survived mostly on fast food. I changed that 5 years ago, and have been on a healthier track ever since.  But now, on top of that, what motivates me has an additional element, since I left my old job so that I can rearrange my life to be more active and dedicate to triathlons.  I call it new beginnings.

Hey everyone - might have some good news to pass along if you haven't already heard.  According to Bob over at iamtri: 

Comment by Bob 5 hours ago

Just heard from one of our members who said a buddy of his doing IMKY got a text from IM personnel that we WON'T be going up Wolf Pen Branch and will be using/crossing the Harrod's Creek Bridge. This will extend the out and back on 1694 some distance (and part of that is uphill) but we only do that out and back once......So while I haven't seen it with my own eyes all signs are pointing toward a flater start and finish to this race.

Our intel team and local beat reporters will keep you posted....details at 6


Don't know if it's true, but I guess we'll soon find out!

Yep for as I can tell BBC gets alot of biz from the Louisville Bicycle Club one of our rides leaves from their parking lot.

He said it wasn't a good dream!

I am in for the get together wherever it is, just keep us posted.  The bike course is what it is, but thamks for the updates.

hrliles, I can't touch that motivation but here is mine.

When I married my wife 28 1/2 years ago, I looked at her dad and said I will never look like that.  Well guess what. January of 09, I got out of the shower and there my father-in-law was, staring right at me from the bathroom mirror.  I started working out, lost 45 pounds, completed 1/2 marys, full marys, sprint tris, half ironmans and now this monster, that I will complete.  I teach Sunday School (young married adults) and there is a lesson being formed in the whole workout thing.  When I started working out, I was alone, now my son (20 years old) is traing for his first sprint tri, my daughter
(25) and married to a soldier, is working out and will attempt her first mary in December with her husband when he returns from Iraq (2nd trip), and my wife has changed her life style as well.  Now, men, you are going to be the spiritual, physical, emotional leader of your family whether you want to or not, the question is, which direction are you going to lead.   Just my 2 cents.

I look at it as a way of defining myself. Lets hope that, come race day, in the midst of my inevitable marathon delusion, I will have some sort of divine experience and learn the secrets of the universe....and why I feel that a 140.6 mile race is the act I need to perform to define myself to the world.

15 days people

Ten years ago, I was over 300 lbs and not happy.  I found myself down the lifestyle path that had led to the death of my father (who was over 400 lbs and ultimately passed due to complications related to his weight.)  I wanted to be a better role model for my kids, from a fitness perspective, than my dad was for me.  I'd already cherry-picked the good parts from him and wanted to build on that legacy that he created.

I remember as a teenager watch Kona on Wide World of Sports and seeing Julie Moss collapsing on the finishing stretch as her body shut down.  Those images stuck with me for a long time and were very powerful.  I knew then it was something that I wanted to try but, as often happens, that dream got shelved and life went on. 

I joined the triathlon lifestyle as a result of a clyde that I've never met.  We were in our last few days of a vacation in Kona and there was a triathlon (or some type of race) that was happening.  One of the athletes was a man about my size who was running down the road in a speedo and a race belt.  I thought, if he can do it, what's stopping me. 

Fast forward to today; I'm 65 lbs lighter and so much happier than I've ever been.  My oldest son wants to do a sprint next year, my second son is a starting lineman on the HS football team as a sophomore, and my two youngest sons are happy young boys that always make me smile.

As my tag says, my children are my heroes.  I live my life to ensure that they have the tools necessary to succeed, physically, mentally, morally, etc.  They are my motivation; my joy comes from their smiles and laughs.  That's what will drive me!

Apologies for droning on with this but I started typing and couldn't stop.

Cheers!