Ironman Coeur d'Alene : Official Thread (Page 71)

That sounds amazing! Stout floats are also good.  Have I mentioned I'm not at my "ideal race weight" either? ^_^

Haha pickle juice was made famous in the Monday night football game of the eagles vs the Cowboys about a decade ago when Andy Reid was just getting started. Now, 10 years later, its on the shelves at GNC and being studied in the Netherlands!

I want to reinforce a very basic concept that Josh is alluding to which i think was responsible for my improvement of about 3/4 of an hour from IM1 to IM2, namely PACING. My mantras at IM2 were slow and steady wins the race, patience is a virtue, and no need to rush. Didn't walk at all at IM2 where IM1 I blew up and had to walk with my head down in defeat during miles 14-20 before bouncing back and rallying.

Don't be afraid to ride slower and/or run slower as forward movement, noted above, is the key. Running slower is way faster than walking average!

If someone can do it for the BT IMCDA party, I want in on T's suggestions:

"I wonder if you can deep fry ice cream with a beer batter?"

Finally, nobody is coming back to me about BT/IMCDA shirts for us and sherpas. Does that mean you want the new neon lime headsweat hats instead or nothing? Running out of time.

We’re up to 88 pgs anyone remember what the goal was?

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/fullscreen/18197948/

Be sure to click the elevation button at the bottom.  There are average grades so they do not show those little short spikes.

Not a big fan of mapmyride hill profile.  So I’ve found a route with 2000ft of climbing on a 50mile loop.  I know CD does not have that much climbing so  I figure training on a harder course will make the CD bike ride a little easier on me.  Easier is really not the word I’m looking for but you get what I mean.

Yeah, I know about the elevation tool, but it's not really accurate - several rides I do now show 3-4%  but they are really closer to 8-10%.  And I know you guys aren't talking about having to get out of the saddle on a hill that's 4%, yet that's the most mapmyride shows.

I do want to ride harder than what is shown for CDA - but the engineer in me wants to know what "harder" is and if I'm going to only average 12 mph because it's all 8% hills.

Thanks all!

I started messing around with map my  rides and I really like how this one displayed the bike profile.   I never have used it before so I thought it was cool when I put my mouse over a certain part of the terrain it showed where it was on the route.

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/1129635

Ok I just did the math stating elevation  2163ft max height 2163ft= 458ft of climbing  x 2= 916 ft.  Map my ride shows a total climb of 1400+ft of climbing.  What am I messing? Are they adding in all the dips or something?  That would be my guess I just want to make sure.

All this talk of hills is getting my anxiety up a little.  Sorry if it's been posted before, but does anyone have a true read on the elevation gain?  1400/loop sounds a little light.

Tomorrow is 90 days, y'all!  What's on tap for everyone's weekend?  I'm in the middle of a wicked sinus infection and have missed the last 2 days of training.  :-(  I'm hoping to wake up in good enough shape for a long ride tomorrow.

My response to those coaches would be that wisely paced athletes don't cramp, regardless of their relative fitness.

Thanks for the links.

I was surprised to see that Rapp was mixing different brands ie Powerbar Perform with GU Roctane as opposed to using PB gels.  I was told it is best to stick with one brand of of drinks/gels so it is less likely to get stomach issues. 

Attached is a Garmin Training Center file for last year's race.  (Not mine, found it on the Garmin site).  So this is the actual course, not an estimate from MapMyRide.

It shows just shy of 5600ft for the 2 loop course.  So that's 2800ft for 1 loop.  Remember this is TOTAL elvation gain.  So if you start, go up 100 ft, down 100, up 100 and down 100 (net 0) that's 200 feet of elevation gain / loss.

Also if you look at the grade there are some spikes up to the 10-14% level but those are just that, spikes.  The vast majority seems to be centered around the sub 5% level.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1376772/IMCdA.tcx

And tribean I agree 100%.  Until I complained to them a few weeks ago they still had Gatorade on the site as the drink on the course.  It amazes me that such a large organization can have such poor information on their website.

Maybe if anyone wants to send me Garmin logs of IMs I can put them all up on a site so that people can have REAL infromation before they get to the race. 

1.  Post Garmin Logs of IMs

2. ???

3. Profit

Pssst - they're all basically the same

If you have a basic understanding of the various sugars used, mixing isn't risky at all imho.

I think the short steep hills add a tricky mental element to CdA.  The top is always in sight.  So it's very tempting sometimes, to just stand up and "get it over with".  And a lot of people do exactly that.

It takes a lot of discipline to get in your granny gear every time and let people pass you on the way up - or at least it does for me.  You have to keep reminding yourself that you still have another loop.  Or that you still have a marathon to run.

Woooot!!!!  Olympic race is complete.  I shaved 16 freaking minutes of my Olympic PR and reported my first top 10 overall finish (8th overall).  Nothing like seeing the word MASTERS above several COLLEGIATE class athletes.  I chased down one guy from Baylor at the end and could not help but notice on his calf that he was 20 years old.  Ahhh, I remember those days.  Austin was hot, humid, hilly, and windy, but hey, the tougher the course and elements the better I will be prepared in June.  I am now digging the Hammer Endurolytes.  Used them for the first time today due to the temps.       

I need to get to bed now because I am running the Rock n Roll Half Marathon tomorrow morning.  Who needs rest? 

New Orleans HIM in 3 weeks. 

Enough with the my bragahol, party on!!!!

Dude that rocks! Major kudos and keep up the fire!! I've got Oceanside 70.3 next week and will be interested to see how it pans out. Being 3 MONTHS (yes folks, today is the 3 month mark!) out I have a "real" pre-race week taper (this week kind of was) and so will be interested to see how I feel rested out there next week! Should be fun. I hope.