Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 7)

"About 12 hours after you finish! "

Thanks, djdjm!  Working on putting in the training now.  I still have a Half in three weeks.  Plan is to take a bit of a recovery week (frequent but less intense worktouts) post Rev3SC and then jump into it all over again.  I have a coach who has helped me have a much faster short course season but she doesn't have experience with the long courses.  My goal for this race is to enjoy it as much as possible...and still cross the finish line in time.  Not sure what to do about the coaching or choosing a plan.  Any suggestions?  I'm currently training an average of 15hrs/wk.  Feeling like my base is good.

My guess is if you are training an AVG of 15hrs/week many of us are jealous and you will be fine. I get an AVG of 8 in and am hoping for a sub-6 finish.

Have you ever done big events so close to each other before? This may be your limiting factor dependig on how hard you go.

I feel pretty lucky to have that kind of time to train right now.  That's why I'm going ahead with the full.  I'm probably going back to work one of these days but being a stay-at-home mom to older children really is great for training.

My plan is to race Rev3 but I'm not going to push it. Just want to stay injury-free and get through the tough training ahead.  Had a sub-6 at Augusta last year but that swim was super fast.

Just to clarify the sub 6 is for my 1/2IM in 2 weeks and not the full at CdA........as if y'all didn't already figure that out! Once I do the 1/2 I will have a better idea of what my full time should be as long as everything goes right

The race is on and it will be a Tri. lots of speculation regarding roads and river conditions but organizers assure us roads will be repaved and we are still swimming and water levels will be back dow by this week.

Pocono's will be my 1st Tri evar and honestly I should have done a more established race as there is just so many unknows with Poconos. Swim is probably a 1/3 upstream but with high water might be a biatch! then you have to run a little over 1/2 mile to T1. Bike elevation is all over the place depending on who posted it. Seen as low as 1700 and as high as 3200. Also the roads got messed up pretty bad through the storms and they are working on fixing them. the run is an established 1/2 Mary course so no talk about that part. Organizers assure us all will go as planned so other than that it should be fun!

Oh an water temp is currently 61F

Sorry Double Post

I'm racing the Rev3 South Carolina Half next weekend.  I'll plan to take a week or so off for some well-deserved recovery and then slowly work back into winter training.  

I'm also going to do some serious searching for a new coach, plan, or both.  My current coach is great but she isn't 100% comfortable training me for a distance she hasn't done herself.  I get that...just need to find an IM-experienced coach.  I have a few ideas...just need to check them out.

I did IMWI , and in about 5 weeks will be racing IMFL. I am planning on a couple of snowshoe races, indoor TT's this winter.

Safe training everyone

Nicole

Here is the update as of two weeks ago. Nothing new. How about
so more info. The 95 coarse will have the car driving in the 2 north bound
lanes and bikes will be in the 2 south bound lanes. The HWY department is
trying to make Ironman build a $75,000 cross over to get the cars over. They
are also trying to get Ironman to flip for the bill to fix the shoulder on
south bound HWY 95 at Mica grade so the bikes that are training will have space
and not have to move onto the road there. Ironman is trying not to have to pay
all this. Hayden is thinking about sueing Ironman to make them move some of the
course back in to Hayden.

                FYI-
they had to change the course because part of the old North course will have
the roads ripped up.

Really good point.  I think it is very easy to mentally start training for CdA NOW (because we're so excited about it and 2011 tri season is pretty much over) - which is a disaster for both burnout and injury reasons.  I'm trying to take it one step at a time with the realization that CdA is my "A", so if I need to drop out of anything else along the way to heal an injury, I will.

Maybe not 100%, but nearly every person I talked to who had trouble with the cold water was not wearing a neoprene cap.  Also not surprisingly, those caps were the first things to sell out at the expo prior to the race.

Do yourself a favor and bring one, even if the chin strap makes you feel uncomfortable.  You lose a LOT of heat through your head and they make a big difference.

Personally, I didn't sign up for 2012 mainly because of the change to the bike course.  I liked the old course but with the change in place, I am going to focus on some different races for awhile.

(I know we're 8 months out, but...)

Anyone think there's a chance we'll be lucky and get mid-60's water temps in 2012? 

IM website says the avg temp is 67* but if you calc the posted temps from the last 5 years, including 2011, it is 61*.  Average for 2007-2010 is 63*.