Ford Ironman Wisconsin : Official Thread (Page 53)

I'll be wearing a white K swiss top with a flag on it. Riding a white Orbea. I will look for you and I will try not to laugh. You will probably end up catching me as well. Be gentle. Hahha. See you out there! 

WHAT A GREAT DAY SO FAR!!  I'm on a small break before I head out to Camp Randall to do my Running Marshal stuff.

I met many of the BT/Donkai peeps and was introduced to a couple more before the start of the race.

I was amazed at the 2nd overall person getting to the bike mount (where I was) - the 1st woman!!  KICK AZZ!

I saved one of the woman pro's Coca Cola that she dropped while heading down the Helix - I caught her just in time to hand off her bottle.  She called me "Hon" and "Babe" while thanking me.  How cool!

Hope your having a great time - I certainly am!!

You can do it Fred!!! Go Go Go

Positive vibes for you Fred!

Hope you can figure out what to do to improve things and adjust.

There is another thread on tri talk about IMWI.

From Coredump's (AKA Chris also Laura AKA Whizzzzzz's boyfriend) facebook page

"To all my Facebook friends in Madison for the IM. You will not want to miss Laura's finish. Yes I'm being serious. And nobody tell her anything. I have a surprise waiting for her. And yes that means what you think it means. So be there, and keep it a secret! "

Estimated finish time 10-11 central time

At least the second one tonight!  I'll watch for it.  The atmosphere here is great.

Thanks for catching me Michael -- I'm just sorry you had to meet me in that state!

Congrats to all the other finishers.  It was a great day, but the course was tough.

Dbl post.  (I'm tired!)

BTW - HUGE Wisconsin congrats to the female winner today (Jessica Umentum-Jacobs). 

Jessica grew up in Green Bay (Preble High School), and is a friend of my sister.

Great day and great race. I hope you all had the chance to enjoy the day in whatever that realm is for you. I spent about 4 hours on Timber Lane and ran up with many of you, Suzy, Tammy, Neal, Fred, Dave plus some of my other friends as well...too many to remember. Everyone looked solid on the first loop and it seemed it got a bit dicey the second go around, but that is per usual at that part of the course. And I hope that you all loved my outfit for the day. 

I talked to Fred running up Timber and I guess his pedal came off? He seemed a bit off as well when I was taking to him. Caught him again a couple times on the run and he was holding on as best as he could but it was obvious that he was hurting bad. Great job on the finish!

I caught at the finish line and the general consensus from everyone was...it was great then the heat got to me. The weather was not outrageous by any means to what we had this summer, but there was A LOT of people walking, and it was everyone, KQ'ers, Pro's, MOP, BOP, times are slower then many years past as well. It was weird to see it unfold and how it got to everyone. Still congrats to everyone finishing and I hope you all enjoyed the day greatly. See you out on the course next year!

Hey Gang!  19 minute PR for me despite breaking my front cable 3 miles from the mount line and riding it that way through the stick.  Lost lots of time waiting for SAG, but kept it together mentally to have a decent race overall. 

It was great to see so many BT'ers out there getting it done.  Ben thanks for the inspirational run up Old Sauk Pass!  And to Chris, very classy way to end Laura's IM!  Congrats.

Congrats everyone.

Wow!  What a great story!  It brought tears to my eyes.  I'm so happy for them.

Very, very cool!

However, just a clarification - did you mean 16:58:45??

oops sorry I was going by actual time not Finish time....yes it was less than 1 minute till midnight so 16:59:XX.....thanks for the clarification  Won't let me fix it though