Bone Island Tri - Full Iron Course : Official Thread (Page 6)

My wife are I were thinking about doing the awards cruise.  I did IM Cozumel in 2010 and went on a similar boat 2 days after the race and it was wonderful and relaxing. They made lunch for us and we got to kick back on a remote beach for a while.  I need to contact the company and see what all is involved with the cruise. 

I'll have descent weather being in the South but the beach is calling my name.

Talking with my buddy who is doing the half and coming with, we may have a bar hopping excursion being planned for the night of the race and the day after. Not sure I will see much of the beach

Howdy Folks,

Just signed up for Bone Island Tri - My first Iron Man distance. How's the training going for everyone?

Welcome to BT and to the group, kinda small but hey it will be a smaller race but perfect locale. Training for me is finally rolling along, need to start getting in the longer stuff. Lots of treadmill and trainer time in my future.

Thanks.

I've been to Key West a few times over the years and I think this'll be a great race.

The run and swim portions of the race should be perfect. The bike could be a little dicey depending on the traffic but probably nothing too irksome.

I'm planning a fair amount of indoor training as well - the run should be fine but I'm sure I'll be doing my share of spinning.

I've built a completely flat course of 112 miles on my computrainer and have been riding that to try to simulate staying in aero as much as possible. It's hard with no breaks like hills or descents to give the legs something different.

9 short weeks peeps!

Getting pretty frustrated with travel plans. Flights are ridiculous into Key West and will have me with two connections and about 9 hrs of travel time. THinking of maybe one connection into Miami and then the drive. Anyone make that drive enough to give a ball park time wise? 3-4 hrs? Then the hotel wants $10 a day for parking.

Miami to Key West is 3-4 hours depending on traffic. The road is two lanes the majority of the drive  so a small back up can cause long delays. I'd say if you're driving down Friday afternoon, its going to be on the longer side, if you drive in the mid week 3 hours should be plenty of time. That said - the drive is very beautiful and some people will purposely fly into Miami to enjoy it.

Myself - i'm flying direct to Key West. I'm only down for 5 days. Between the race and festivities  I'm already stretched a little thin and I don't want any other distractions. The Key West airport is pretty close to downtown - it'd be pretty easy to avoid getting a car if you fly direct.

As for training...urg. Weather in DC is turning cold. Got a nice spell of warm weather yesterday and today. Did 65 miles yesterday and thinking I'll head out in a few for another longer bike ride.  Running is in good shape, swimming moderately sucky.

Good luck out there!

Agreed on travel sucking. I finally bit the bullet and booking a 1 stop flight from Cedar Rapids to Key West. $600. However, it was pretty much the best option. I thought pretty hard for awhile about the Miami and rental thing but prices and flight times were equally un-appealing. Just bit the bullet with the flight to minimize having to go through Chicago and risk a delay. I've heard Chicago can be dicey in January with getter behind.

I'm hanging in there with training. Not as good as I'd like but that's probably always the case for everyone. Run feels better than I have for past IM's, however I'm feeling light on the bike, maybe just cause the majority of my rides have been on the trainer the last month and it's getting worse.

House booked

Flight booked

My bike has a ride there

I'm ready to go. I'm starting to get pretty pumped about this. Weather and wind histories look prime for Key West in Jan. I remember signing up the website said tide neutral swim... I read the athlete book today and they are claiming tide at your back most of the swim. This should be a fast race.

I'm assuming they are planning the one that starts at Fort Taylor (point to point and would be the one with a bit of tide at the back) cause the athlete booklet talked about busing from transition to the swim start, where as the looped course starts at the transition.

Obviously everything is subject to change. I'm a fan of point to point regardless of ocean tides.

Edit: Just doubled checked and the alternate does NOT start at transition... Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Found me a flight last week, been looking for months and it dropped $140 overnight last Tuesday, grabbed  it like a fat kid with cake.

Now we move on to this getting my bike there. What options are everyone using? Raceday transport comes nowhere near Michigan. Don't think I can bring it on the plane, sounds like they have a luggage max on our connector into Key West. What say my peeps?

OH MY... 8 weeks out and I am entering the "am I doing enough in training" phase.

P.S. Does anyone have a clue where they will place the buoy's during the swim? Every 400m? Arbitrary placement/ only at turns?

I hear that. When I think about it though, I'm pretty sure I'm doing more volume than I did for B2B last year. Of course, my training record keeping wasn't as good back then. Thus, I'm for sure in that boat (especially with alltom saying he's riding a 110 this weekend. I only plan on 70 this weekend...)

Ah, the joys of comparing.

Same thoughts are starting to go through my head.  I did a 95/3 brick this past weekend and was counting weeks until race day and wondering if I would get enough run fitness in.  I'm getting to the point in training where I'm hungry all the time and my wife just looks at me with how much I eat.

Can't say for sure, but with this being the first one, I would imagine they run it and see where they stand afterwards. Might be the only year...

I think it must be tough to get people in on a January Iron Distance. It was capped at 500 to begin with.