Ironman Florida : Official Thread (Page 6)

Shores of Panama is about .25 mile down the street from TA, not far at all.

Just changed my hotel to stay through Monday, now on to booking the airline reservations!

Happy training everyone! The Georgia tri season is kicking off this weekend. I'm aiming for the Macon HIM on May 30th. Time to sart really ramping things up. Anybody racing this weekend?

In case anyone was curious, we're below 200 days now...196 now. (I'm a day counter...have been for ages!)
Anyhow, I'm recovering from what ended up indeed being a stress fracture to the top part of my right fibula...April ended up being a fairly light month in retrospect, but I am at the 5 week point of healing, and there is no pain, so I hope to be running in 1-2 weeks.  In the meantime, swim swim, bike bike, and some aquajog thrown in there. I have an Oly on Memorial Day and am excited to get out there and race given the leg is fine.  I had to aquabike it for my HIM the beginning of this month, and it was really weird not to run afterwards.  I am just thankful that I'm dealing with this NOW...before we hit IM specific training.  So, it is what it is and while I cannot think of the last time I went a month without running, I haven't gone too crazy yet thanks to the bike and swim!! Hopefully I've taken the one injury for the IMFL BT team and we can all be done with that!  Stay healthy and happy racing to those of you that are getting out there in the thick of it!

Bump for one week closer~!

In case anyone is still needing to book airlines tickets -Delta's rates went way down to PNS today  just booked it my flight from NY $240.00 RT! FYI

Wow great deal! I'm driving and extended my stay until Monday with the rest of you! :thumbs up:

White Lake HIM this weekend for me, anyone else racing?!?

Hello everybody!!
I am too doing this race this year. It will be my first IM and I can't even believe I actually signed up. I read that some of you are staying at the Shores of Panama Condos. Do you know what the price range is?? I stil lhave ot booked accomodations and i think it is time I start thinking about it.
Happy Training~!

D.

I am doing this race too.  But I am doing the second weekend.  Good luck!!

As stated in some of there earlier posts, go through VRBO.com.  I went through there and booked a full week stay for just over $600 after all taxes and fees.  I ended up getting one of the cheaper rooms but I am sure there are lots of really good deals in the  $700 to $800 range.   Good luck. 

Now wait a minute...thats MY job...to bring up the rear...but I'd love to keep you company...Ill do all I can to have that smile on my face See you in a few days. Ill be there Thursday afternoon staying at the Boardwalk

I also booked through VRBO.com and got a 1 bedroom 1 bath at Sunbird for $70/night with a gulf view. 

I just signed up to volunteer at the race.   Can't wait to find out what they assign me to and see y'all race!  I asked for women's change tent as my first choice and I think bike handler as my second.

I live just an hour away in Niceville and planned on just driving back and forth.  However, if anyone has a sofa they don't mind me crashing on the night after the race, I would really appreciate it!  I figure I'm going to be at the race late...I'd love to see the last finishers.  And I will have to be back early the next morning for 2010 signups.  So rather than drive all the way home for a couple of hours of sleep I thought I might see if someone had a place I could crash.  I'm also thinking about setting up sleeping bag in the back of my truck...seriously!   If anyone has room I would be glad to provide beer and/or sherpa servcies in return.

The shirts he did were fantastic!!!

Be sure to take him up on the offer. The wicking shirts I wear whenever I go to a BT get together.

Hello all,

Long time no talk.  About two months ago I found out that we were going to get caught up in the economic downturn and I was going to have to drop out of the race.  It was quite depressing but I understood.  So for the past two months I have not worked out at all and put back on about 12 pounds!  Now, because of my amazingly supportive wife it looks like we are going to make it work so that I can still  chase my ironman dreams!  Now I am terrified because I feel completely de-trained.  This is my first Ironman so I am not sure how much time it takes for me to compete at my best.  However, I am afraid that since we are under six months I won't be able to do my best.  Then again, I am just happy that I will be able to try.  I have 17hrs to finish and the longer I am out there the more I get for my money.

I am excited to see so many people coming on board over at the Shores of Panama.  Maybe we should have a get-together or something.  Good luck everyone, can't wait to see you in PCB. 

Don't fret, lots of time left to train. Just give it an honest effort and you'll do great!

25 weeks

Please stop that. What are you trying to do scare me ?