Ironman Texas (Page 70)

Yes. Or a social security card. Passport is good though, it has a picture. Going to DMV today? You might get one back in time.

OWS pratice was nice this morning--Thansk TJ for setting that up!! They announced water temp was 76 if I remember correctly, but it felt warmer than that and I was plenty warm in just a suit.  Small chop on the way out because of wind blowing from south but overall nice. As mentioned before, the lake is plenty wide to handle all the racers. There was talk about how narrow the canal is and how it could be a cluster when it gets to that. Again, we will be hitting the 'canal' portion close to the 2 mile point so hopefully it will be thinned out by then. If not, the canal is still plenty wide. A lot of people were in wetsuits so I wonder if they got too warm. I would probably say it was a 50/50 split on wetsuit vs. non wetsuit out there. 

Keep on Keeping on

I second that - water temp was perfect in just a suit - hope it stays the same temp for 3 more weeks! 

That stinks!  Your passport will be fine do not let this get you down.  Reprint USAT card from website and your golden.  Now go train

So, what are everybody's numbers for April? Here's mine:

I'm satisfied with my bike and run, my swim volume was disastrous this month because of work getting in between.

All the hay is in the barn, now let's burn it all!!!

All in all, it was a good month. I would have liked to see my run total increase from last month, but it just didnt happen. I did a swim/bike brick today ... 4000yard swim and 101mile bike, so I feel really good about coming off the bike in decent shape .. the run on the other hand .. well, we will just have to see.

Run was cut short by a 2 week injury.  All other volume close to planned!

Satisfied with my bike and run volume... swim on ther other hand was TERRIBLE. Work, schedule, wife and three girls got me there. Starting taper Monday so I will make up for it since swimming does not tax me like b/r; and b/r volume will be low anyways.  Congrats to everyone here for the awesome training!

Last 3 hr run tomorrow, should land around 18-21 miles.

Well, that is as good as it is going to get for me.  Just wrapped up a 21 mile run in 3:03.  Lost 9 pounds of water, and that was with this slight overcast.

Let the taper begin!  I know my wife and daughters are more excited about the taper than I am.

They kept reminding me about it all weekend!  I think today I just realized this IM is really happening.  What a great feeling to have made it this far; I can finally see the light now at the end of the tunnel.  Awesome April everyone!!! 

I started my last long run just after noon today.  I enjoyed every minute of the run today and I am in a happy place overall.  About 10 miles in I heard a lady say something to me.   I asked her to repeat,  she said "I see a future Ironman".  I told her thank you and that was the plan.  It gave me chills.  I had my tri suit on and could not believe she knew what it was. 

 After my run I felt good enough to mow the yard, weed eat, and trim the hedges.  It is amazing how far I have come through this journey. 

Does anyone know if there will be any type of shuttle service between T1 and Northshore Park? Not  that its a long walk, but I was thinking more for my family so they wouldnt have to walk from T1 to the swim start and then back over to T1 afterwards. I didnt see any mention of this on the website or in the athlete guide.

Damn!  Very cool man.  I wasn't in to bad of shape after my run.  Went on with the family birthday party at a park and played around (light) with the kids.

But there was no way that my yard was going to see some love after my run.  I don't think I could have pushed the mower, weedeater etc without some soreness. 

Awesome job!

Does anyone have a map of the bike course? The cartoon map on the website isn't as helpful as I had hoped and I tried to follow the course on google maps using the turn-by-turn directions but didn't make it half way through before getting lost. Maybe someone local who has been on the course can help?