Beach 2 Battleship Iron Distance : Official Thread (Page 7)

I'm headed to Destin on Saturday and worried about swimming as well.  Unfortunately, the beach place has a no cancellation policy, oil or not!

Well howdy here in this thread too

If I can do it, you can do it. I'm coming off, um, "lifetime accrued" base. In other words, the pretty much 0-18 program as well. Did a sprint tri two weeks ago and a 5K OWS 4th of July, managed most (but not all) of the workouts in between.

Before that, dengue, and before that, pretty much nothing.

I am really worried about the swim part(i swim it every tuesday and thursday) and  I have done  the bike course. I more worried about the run.  Since I injured my calf  I am still iffy on running long distances.

Water running (aqua jogging). Is your calf still injured/hurting?

My calf was injured and I have recovered but when I run small distances like 5K I get small tweeking feeling and then I backoff and  do a slow jog.

Aqua jogging and run/walk are your friends. If you want to do the full ...

Anyhow, don't run hard or far enough to get that tweaking feeling. Stop before it happens, for now. Sub aquajogging.

Obviously I don't know shyte about training for IM, but I know a lot about running long off of injuries.

Dengue, as in "bone break fever"? WOOF! A buddy of mine picked that particular nasty up and said it felt like being run over by a truck constantly for a week.

um it's an IM---you just walk the marathon like everyone else

WOW that would be a reallllllllllllllllllllllly long day and it gets cold that time of year in the evening. I would have to do a NO sir on that one

What a great run of posts here!

I am moving towards the full, but having missed the earlier cutoff I figure I might as well wait until the next one to register! I did irons in '04 and '05, but not since. At 61 I ain't gettin' any younger and the season is going great and I figure this is a good time to gear towards iron #3 -- with B2B being the choicest of choices!

To this end, I have booked into the Hilton, leaning towards the benefits of being close to the finish and not having to hassle with finding a taxicab in the evening to get me to my bed. HOWEVER ---- what is the veteran's thinking on this? Is it better to be closer to the start, or closer to the finish? I suspect the places nearer the start will be considerably less money than the la-de-da Hilton, but if I make the trip down there I might as well do it somewhat "right". But is the Hilton that much more "right" than other accommodations?

I look forward to keeping up with you all, and will be very envious of the more southern of you who will not feel the discomfort of loooooong rides in the growing chill from mid-October onwards, up thisaway!

Yeah ... make that a truck on fire.

I finally got out of bed on a Thursday and did the tri on Sunday :-) ... it didn't feel so good.

Hey B2B'ers, I hope all is well.

I was just in Wilmington visiting my mom and I went on the Ghost Walk that they have in downtown Wilmington.  It was really quite neat, and a lot of fun.  90 minutes, and maybe 1.5 miles with minimal stair climbing (<10 steps).  The people that do the tours will do groups, and I was curious if anyone might be interested in checking it out before the race.  I'm thinking that Thursday night would be the best.

You can find info about it here
www.wilmingtonwalkingtours.com

If people are interested I think it would be a lot of fun, and I'd be happy to figure out pricing and doing all the setting up for a group.

I'm also going to post this in the Half group, so no need to respond twice. 

x3.  I've been doing mostly pool running since May, slowly working my way back to the road.  I haven't lost much run fitness.

Livestrong191---was just kidding about everyone walking the marathon of an IM...just trying to encourage you to do the full yourself!!!!  You CAN do it...

As Doug (browndog) pointed out---train on rolling terrain---or throw in hill repeats during your training since the bridge and one or two short (but steep) hills can ruin your day if you expect pancake flat the whole way...

As for staying closer to start or finish---I stayed in the middle--I'd say the Hilton is a good choice if price is similar to other places---they run the shuttle from there to the start (well to T1 and from there everyone gets the shuttle to the swim start...) and then at the end of the race you just have to hope on the watertaxi back across to the Hilton....

I really am jealous of all of you doing this race---it's a great race but just not in my budget to travel to two races this year.....so please ask all the questions you have so that I can live through BTers racing!!

Soooooooo quiet in here ... is everybody TRAINING or something???

Oh my  %^&&$**  %&$#@ing  &$%#@*! ... it's for real.

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Participants for PPD Beach2Battleship Iron Distance 2010

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#	Name	Category	Gender	Age	Location	Individual or Relay
1	Adams, Chris	Age Group	M	30	Simpsonville, SC	individual
2	Albanese, Anthony	Age Group	M	35	Randolph, NJ	individual
3	Alderson, Travis	Age Group	M	29	Southampton, PA	individual
4	Ams, Tim	Age Group	M	34	Barrington, IL	individual
5	Anderson, Erik	Age Group	M	53	Ft Worth, TX	individual
6	Anderson, Gary	Age Group	M	61	Suffolk, VA	individual
7	Ardie, Arsiyanti	Athena	F	34	SANUR-BALI, XX	individual

A bit tired already. I just had the most God awful boring meeting and kept nodding off. Oops.




That'll be in a few weeks for me. There is still 16 weeks and change to go

That would be yes. Pretty much. Thanks for the encouragement!!!

I'm not exactly on a formal training plan ... I bike lots, run a fair bit, swim whenever the heck I feel like it (=never, maybe tomorrow), try to make sure that it's at a conversational pace but one that won't make me fail the time limits either, and figure that if my volume comes somewhere near what the BT Beginner 20-week plan states, that's the best I can do.

Edited by TriAya 2010-07-17 10:34 AM

WOOF! (as Daniel would say. And me too)

I survived my first REAL week of IM training (for this IM, anyway ... started training for two others, even signed up, but got cut off at the pass both times)

How is everyone else faring?

If it's anything like it should be that time of year, a 60-70 degree day will be a real treat to do the race in considering so far my training is in 90-105 degree and 70%+ humidity

Unfortunately that might mean I also overhydrate just out of habit.

Hey! I'm on the exact same plan! We ought to market & profit off of it.

But seriously, I realize this weekend that we're deep into the summer. Time for me to start getting serious. (I think it may help me focus if I see my post on line.)

Well I decieded it too short of a time to prepare for a full Ironman so I am out BUT I will come  help out at the race. Unless someone needs a swimmer for race.

If your logs are correct, yeah, I'd say you just missed the train.

But if you've been reasonably active the last few weeks, ain't too late.

I think it's called the JFT plan. You be awright!