Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 6)

I agree about the turns at the bottom of some of the descents.  can be very dangerous.  please keep us posted on any bike course changes you hear about.  we appreciate it.   

For what it's worth, I e-mailed the mayor of CdA a few months back asking them to leave the bike course the same, and I recently got a reply saying no decision has been made yet.  Here's her reply:

Dear Sarah,

Thanks for sharing your concerns regarding the Ironman bike route.  I think we can all agree that Ironman Coeur d’Alene is an outstanding event.  The city is committed to continuing that tradition.

As one of the decision makers, we surely will consider safety, manpower needed, and aesthetics of the course.  At this time, no decision has been made.

Best regards,

Sandi Bloem

Mayor

I was thinking of the bridge that crosses the Spokane river (lake)
coming in to town. That is a two lane bridge that would have to be closed to traffic.
That would mean that all cars would have to go around the lake or drive in to
Spokane Valley to get back into Coeur d’ Alene. I can’t think of another way to
get into town that way. They could make the course go in to Post fall like in the old days. They
went to the state line and back with the loop to higgens point that might be
long enough.

I sent a email to Ironman CDA here is the reply

Lauren Altamiranda, Aug-31 11:21 am (CDT):

Hello Mark-
Thank you for your email. I have not heard of the course change. However, please log on to the link below to view the course.
www.ironmancda.com
Any changes will be updated on the website. Please continue to monitor updates.

Thank you!

Lauren Altamiranda
Athlete Services Coordinator
Ironman Headquarters - 2701 North Rocky Point Drive
Suite 1250- Tampa, FL 33607
(p) 813-868-5920|(f) 813-868-5930
(skype) ironman.lauren
www.ironman.com

I do not know if that means no change or this person does not know of a change.

I stand corrected. I talked with a person that is on the
board for the race. It has been changed, all they have to do is dot some i and
cross some t. I still think that this is a bad idea. If you want to lose
support for a race just make it inconvenient for people that have nothing to do
with the race. The other thing is that there will not be as many supporters along
HWY 95 as the other course. There is nothing I can do about it now so on to
training.

Less than 100 spots...cause I just snagged one.  I've been lurking on this thread soaking up the information about possible course changes but am sitting on the fence no longer.  Hoping the "hills" of North Georgia will prepare me for CDA.  Not sure what will prepare me for the cold water, though.

This is my first IM...I was shaking filling out the registration form online.  Now, I'm a little shell shocked that I'm really doing this.  When does that wear off? 

Did a www.mapmyride route based on the rumors......

Only shows 2300ft of climbing per lap.....but there are a couple of hills that avg over 3% grade for about 2 miles......

Paul

 Not sure what will prepare me for the cold water?

Long wooly swim wear . You realy can not prepare for it. If you can get here a few days before the race and take a dip so you will know what to expect when you hit the water will help.

Thanks for the map.  It looks like some of those climbs are pretty long.  Based upon comparison, if you take the climb along the lake (approx 1 mile long each way), the climbs along 95 look pretty LONG.

Yup.....by the elevation calculations there are two climbs in each loop of consequence....

1.74 mi @ 4.6% avg and 2.08 @ 3.6%

But it also looks like there is zero bike handling corners to be concerned about and the pure number of direction changes (up and down) seem diminished......

I, for one, will miss the long steady downhill from Hayden down to T2.

Paul

I could not get that link to work but i found this one. It was listed as possible IM CDA route 2012

http://www.trainingpeaks.com/sr/DEYUMEBZWWO2WSSODDSRK6ATYE

If you cut and paste the link address it should work fine....I made it a public route yesterday.....

Paul

I bet it had a lot to do with the cold water temps from last year.

When I told some friends in my tri club about registering, the first thing they all mentioned was how cold the swim was and how they all knew someone who sat in the warming tent too long that they were concerned about making the bike cutoff.

I've had those type of dreams, too.  I think we have an interesting 9 months ahead of us!