IronMan Cozumel : Official Thread (Page 6)

Hello everyone,

Glad to get back to Cozumel for a second time.

Training for a this year's race has been on track, challenging and most of all FUN.

We'll be flying in from Toronto, Canada and staying at the former Wyndham close to the swim start.

Last year the plane had so many triathles flying to the island that a connecting flight from Montreal had half of its bikes stranded in Toronto and had to leave on another flight. (Not fun). "Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking with a brief message that your bike will not be traveling with you today; your bike will join you in the beautiful island of Cozumel later today so feel free to stress out about it during this 4-hour flight and keep chewing on your nails once you land in Mexico not knowing where exactly is your cycling aparatus that you love so much and that you carefully packed last night. Please enjoy your flight"

Lesson to be learned: Don't connect from Montreal if you are racing in Cozumel.

Luckily my bike was indeed traveling with us, never been so happy to see the Canadian flag on my case.

The weather was great, the calm before the storm was nerve wreaking but I knew everything was going to be alright.

Back to Sunday Nov. 28, 2010 the posted time of 12:12 was disappointing but it just made me stronger, smarter and poorer.

SO HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Good luck everyone!

I am glad I am using TriBike transport !! That would be stressfull.

  See you there

Two weeks of peak training left for me! (some of you may be going three more weeks before tapering...I'm going back and forth on that).  Starting to drag my heels a bit at work and the pants are fitting a little too baggy.  I don't think I've taken my compression socks off in three weeks (only to wash them  

Question: anybody know the rules on traveling with C02 cartridges?  I had seen some posts that said you couldn't fly with them, but then saw one that said it was ok if it was in your checked in luggage (i.e. couldn't have it as carry on). 

Hope your training is going well...would love to hear how everyone is doing out there.

Anybody else monitoring Hurricane Rina? It's dangerously close to Belize and Yucatan including Cozumel. Let's hope and pray for the safety of our friends in Cozumel and everybody else along the Yucatan Peninsula including Belize. Rina is currently a category 2 hurricane and is expected to become a major hurricane by tonight.

yup...living in south florida the weather people make sure we monitor, like it or not!

Thinking happy, positive thoughts for my southern commrades!!!  

Have some friends in Coz, they're hunkering down for the weekend

Hi everyone! 

Sorry I have been MIA, just got back from vacation, and trying to get back into some sort of regular life here's hoping Rina decides to go off track and our friends in Mexico are safe and sound! 

I just registered to have my bike shipped with TriBike Transport, not too excited about giving it to them on 11/14....but I guess that I will survive.

Training is going well, getting excited now!

you are both lucky,  Here in california,  I need to drop mine off on November 11.   Two full weeks with out my bike!!  I have a spare luckily.

WOW!  I think I would just travel with mine if that were the case.  

Big training weekend coming up!  What's everyone got planned?  I'm trying to put a day between the long bike and long run so looks like I'm going with following (based on Don Fink plan but with some of workouts moved around):

Friday: Long run (2.45 hours)

Saturday: Swim 1.25 hours; Bike 1.5 hours

Sunday: Bike 5.5 hours, run 1 hour

Also curious: when you is your last peak week?  Fink's plan has next week as the peak week, with 3 week taper after that...little nervous about a three week taper...was thinking of staggering the taper....peaking on run next week (3 hours) then a gradual 3 week taper...peaking on bike the week thereafter (and then a two week taper)...then peaking on swim week after that (then one week taper)...I have a swimming background so am fairly comfortable with a short taper.

What's everybody else thinking?

Looks like we have similar workout this weekend. 

Friday: long run (3 hours)

Sat: 2 hr bike ; 1 hr run (brick)

Sun: 1.25 hr masters swim; 5hr bike; 20 min run

My schedule is a little screwy as I have to go out of the country next week.  I will have two more weeks of big training hours, but my run distance is going to start to decrease after this week.  Have one more 6 hr ride scheduled in two weeks.

My last big push will be on the 5th (IMFL) - I'm in a simi-taper now. 

That was the original plan but I am taking 2 flights each way from here, that would be about $400 with United and TriBike transport was only $325 (I think) and we are staying for a week after the race so I I did not want to deal with the bike. 

Today is Off

Friday long run 14-15 miles Ironman Pace (which is not much since I am a slow runner)

Saturday Long ride ~100 miles ~ 5.5 hrs @ Ironman Pace

Sunday ~40-50 miles above Ironman pace / 2-3 miles run @ ironman pace

Monday   Swim day....Ahhhhhhhh

I have 2 more weeks of heavy training,  I do not like tapering too long....

I had also thought of flying with my bike, but the cost was so much more and I would have to worry about my bike after the race when my husband and I just want to relax on the beach It is worth the $325 to me....and the extra time without my bike

Today was my 3rd rest day this week.

Tomorrow I will attempt my longest bike ride (6hrs).

Sunday will be another rest day

Monday - long run (2.5 hrs)

thankfully Rina was a nonevent.  We had 24 hours of no power and about 6 hours of no water but we had the genset and satellite internet going so we were good.  We're almost totally unpacked again (our kitchen, comedor and sala are all outside) and ready to go.  We lost quite a bit of roof so we'll probably do that again this winter (we have a guano roof).  Really glad we're not cleaning up from a cat 3 though. 

I had to do my saturday 6.75 h ride on Tuesday as we were expecting a hurricane so I'm slacking this weekend with a 2-hour ride today and a 3-hour ride tomorrow.  I think this might be my peak week (using BT plan) but next week will likely be the same (or actually a little more).  I plan to train next week and the week after at about the same level, 9K swim, 11-12 hours bike, 3-4 hours run and then start tapering week 19.

Good luck on your bike (oops - that was today). How was your long bike?  I did my first 6-hour bike 2 weeks ago and my 2nd on Tuesday.  I don't like them very much but they are definitely useful.  I'm not looking forward to the next 2 either.    It is a LONG time on the bike and since I have only 1 road I'm starting to get bored.  Good luck on Monday's run.  My longest has only been 2 hours.  I'm quite scared of the 42k in the Ironman.

Kathy, good to know that Rina was a nonevent. My long bike ride was great.  I ended up doing 112 miles in 5 hrs and 56 mins.

I felt great up until last night when I started coming down with a cold. This morning has been worse with sinus congestion, sneezing and runny nose. Maybe yesterday's swim wasn't a good idea. I was planning my long run for tonight but not sure if I will do it feeling like this.