Ironman Louisville 2015 : Official Thread (Page 6)

It has sold out every year except 2013 & 2014. 2013 actually did but on a technicality. They lowered the amount of participants.

March 30 - May 24 I have a "pre" IM base training plan laid out.
REAL training begins May 25, but I'm on vacation the first 2 weeks in June, so I'll just have to adjust.

December 26.  

I took a bit of a break so my training Dec. 26 - Jan 31 was base building.  Feb. 01 started my training for this season.  Races are as follows:

IM Coeur d'Alene June 28

Ride to Conquer Cancer Aug. 8-9

Challenge Penticton, BC Half IM Distance Aug. 29

IM Louisville Oct. 11

Will fit in a couple of sprints/olympics but really just training days with free nutrition.  

1. "They" say it is aided a little bit after the turnaround, but I wouldn't count on it. My swim time was about a minute faster at IMLOU than a previous IM, but I never noticed a current like I have in other rivers (for example at Vineman, it was very obvious - at LOU, not so much).

2. It's a time trial start, and first come first served, there are no "early waves." The line will likely start forming at 3 or 4 a.m. (keep in mind transition doesn't open until 4:45 a.m. and the athlete guide says the line won't start forming until 5 a.m., but I've heard otherwise), but it only takes ~30 minutes for everyone to get in the water. If you're worried about time, you'll want to consider lining up pretty early, but if you have anything to do in transition in the morning you'll likely end up in the middle of the line after taking care of that and walking the 0.75 mile to the river. 

The first portion of the swim (~0.75 miles) is definitely a little protected, given where the channel lies on the river.

When I did it in 2013, there was some current noticeable heading upstream. It was very evident the day prior at the practice swim.
But once I made the turn, I was flying.

I got to the start line around 5:30am, and there was a significant line. In spite of thise, I was in the river before 7:20am.

I go into more detail in my race report.

Originally posted by SEADOCHA so anyone else get hit with a bad bug? I swear I was taken out for almost 3 weeks. Thank the lord there is plenty of time left to train Kinda puts a damper on things for me for early races though Hopefully tmrw I can get some quality time in. I started slowly building back up last wknd. I still have this dry, annoying cough though. GRRR

Just the lazy bug here - I feel like I gave myself a little too much permission to enjoy the off season and now my training plan is set to start next week! Between the holidays, a Chicago trip, multiple work trips, a ski trip, a trip to the NCAA basketball games... I haven't maintained like I probably should have this winter. But dang I have had a lot of fun

Hope you get to feeling better - I was out over the holidays with a terrible bug. It sucks big time! Sounds like you are on the mend though!