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

Help would be appreciated. I think it would be easy to give an approximation of terrain with some cadence work (big gear/low cadence, and high gear, high cadence) at the same, or slightly elevated endurance work (say for example we slow this down to 1/3 and make it a 3hr video). If your goal power is ~70% for the race, when the video corresponds to a hill you could then put instructions via TR to change gear/cadence and increase power 5%, or just try to get back to your goal power if you went to an easier gear and have to raise cadence to match.

I don't think it would be easy though to do more than that (e.g., simulate grade etc) and I think that's less useful. I trained for RAMROD (150mi, 10k ft climbing) 99% on the trainer last year. I don't think you really need hills to do "hill" training. Just ride hard

In any case would love to hear more feedback or ideas on this. For me having a video to give me familiarity with the course, and something else to watch as I'm all caught up on the Netflix series I watch) is the main benefit.

I guess I get a little scared out there since I have had some close calls just riding in town so being out on the road like that makes me leery.  But I would definitely be up for getting together this next spring for rides on the course.

Don't know if this helps at all but, here is one loop of the bike course I did earlier this year, as my Timex saw it.

Oh yeah, agree. I'm mostly doing this to keep myself entertained rather than any concern with hills. I'll post my progress, and files as appropriate, if people are interested.

ETA: Thanks Smithe68 for the GPS/elevation trace. Should come in handy.

Ok, so I am sitting here watching the live feed of Ironman Florida and I'm confused about the clock time that displays at the finish.  The clock must start when the pro's start... right?

They said the winner's time was 8:51, and in the photo, the finish line clocks shows that exact time as he crossed beneath it - so that would mean it started when the pro's started at 6:50.

Since the age groupers started at 7:00, isn't their actual race time 10 minutes less than the clock?  Every hour the announcer points out that you need to hurry down the shoot to beat the 12/13/14 hour mark, but don't they actually have 10 minutes to spare?

Thanks, that makes sense.

My goals aren't so lofty, but I'd like to do more than just finish.  I'm spending the next three weeks prepping to start Fink's 30-week plan on Nov. 26.  Tonight is my first Master's class, I'm thinking I'll be a tired puppy tonight.

Welcome aboard!  Also check out this 2012 finish line video taken just before midnight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndY9xptZI9w

That crowd lines the street for the last seven blocks down Sherman Ave. 

You can't see it real well in this video, but the last lady to cross the finish did it at 17:00:23 - missed it by 23 seconds.  One of the earlier finishers gave her his medal - there are other videos of it out there... a real tear-jerker.

I hear you on the swim not being pretty right now.  I've been going at it for about 4 weeks and I am starting to see improvements but mainly just being able to get through the swim workouts.

Had a 1:45 bike this morning and 45 min at lunch today that I am going to do. I won't get much workouts in this weekend as I am out of town and busy but hopefully I'll be able to squeeze in a run or two somewhere.

We got our first snowfall in the Coeur d'Alene area today - a couple of inches, and the low tonight will be in the teens at my house.

My swimming is okay, did my first two Masters classes this week and it went pretty well, learned a couple of things I've been doing wrong for a long time - still have a long way to go and probably should have started Masters much sooner.

But, I haven't been on the bike for six weeks,so I finally put in a half hour on the trainer tonight - time to spend some time in the pain cave.

Getting cold here in Seattle too. Was low 30s for my long run on Friday. I'm making slow progress on the video experiment. Slowed the video to 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 speed. Watching paint dry is more interesting than the 1/4 or even 1/3 videos. I will likely just use the 1/2 speed version as a way to get familiar with the course.

Official plan doesn't start until 20 weeks out, but I'm keeping a pretty solid load through the winter so I think I'll be in good shape.

Swim?  What is swimming?  The one event I don't like is the swim so I'm slow to get in the pool like many others.  I realize the difference between 30 weeks of swim training and 20 weeks of swim training won't be much for my slow swimming self so no rush to get in the pool yet. 

I realized this weekend that I'm really lazy about getting my bike off the trainer.  I rode 1 and 1/2 hours in the basement on a rare 70 degree november day in michigan.  Maybe I'm just preping for the insanity to come this winter with long trainer rides. 

I'm starting to get slightly excited since official training starts in December. 

A week later and another swim, going to have to get to the pool more than once a week now.  Managed a rather weak 1000 yds before I ran out of gas.  Why oh why can't run fitness translate right over?  

Bike is setup in the office with a new 32" tv ready to go for my first ride Saturday morning, 25 miles.  I think it's going to hurt a little.

Its ok man. Welcome the pain cave. Go to it don't be scared. I have to stop hiding from it as well and begin my walk into the cave. I have my yearly 5k Turkey day kick of of training next week so time to kick it into gear.

I am with you on the pool thing though. I went last week once then this week once but need more than that for sure. Better get to it before the Honey badger comes out and bites me.

I did Cozumel last year on my 53rd Birthday - going to hit it again this year as well -  - this will put me at 12 and qualified to enter the legacy lottery. CDA is scaring me with the swim. 

happy birthday and good luck

The pool has been a rough one. Did 3000 yards with maybe 2 minutes of rest in between sets today at lunch at about the pace I want to be at for CDA. So I guess that isn't too bad considering we have many weeks left to get ready.

2:15 bike tomorrow morning followed by a 30 minute run.

Sunday will be interesting considering I am supposed to do a 5k benefit run of some sort and I am scheduled to run 1:10 and bike 50.  Not sure how I am going to do that.

The swim at CDA does scare me as well. I swam out there this year before race day and it was cold. The week after the race the water temps were actually quite nice although not nearly as nice as Lake Stevens at 74 degrees in July.  

For race day I just want a day without wind. Heck it can be overcast as heck and 60 degrees and I would be happy as can be.