Ironman Texas (Page 77)

hey pedro during your taper you should still be doing some ironman pacing intervals, just not as much. your volume is reduced by 30-50%. However the quality is there.

Thanks for the backup gents (Ernesto, Andrew and William).  You get so used to all that volume that it freaks you out when you drop it so much.  If taper is this bad, I can only imagine how it will be after the IM.

I havent even looked  at recovery plans yet.  All this free time is crazy; the training for this beast gets addictive like a drug.    

Erin - you will LOVE skydiving. Its awesome.

My recovery plan is something like this: Move into new house - this could be the week after IMTX (ie before the end of May) or sometime in June.  Depends on if we can find someone to rent the house we're in so we can break our lease.  Also: yard work on the new house and just generally getting it set up the way we'd like.

Then I owe my husband BIG TIME since I moved us to Colorado in December and then abandoned him for IM training.  We are going to do many, many, many brewery tours.  And I would also like to go camping at least 2x a month.

Swim question for anyone that has been in lake?

Is the conditions in Lake Woodlands as muddy as I envision.  I live in New Orleans and swim in Lake Pontchartrain (where your hand is barely visible in front of your face).  Are conditions somewhat similar in Lake Woodlands.  Would be nice to have a small sight line, but coming in with no expectations.  Thanks for any thoughts.

You might be able to see your elbow.

Nice! That's something I really want!

Starting a new job June 6th, learning to walk again after the race, then starting to train for IM AZ. Not much "free" time. 

Skydiving is AWESOME. Love it. I'd love to go regularly and get my cert, but my last jump I had a parachute scare, a hard landing, then surgery a couple months later. So I don't know if I'll go again. We'll see.

LOL!!!  Yes - But the good news is you are swimming in a very wide canal so here are some pointers:

1. When you breathe to the right make sure you see land;

2. If you veer to the right and end up on said land, veer back to left.

3. When you breathe to the left make sure you see buoys;

4. If you don't see said buoys and find yourself running into people going the other way, please calmly make your way to the right.

5. At the start you better you better seed yourself accordingly or prepare to get swam over in the washing machine.

Just some interesting info as we creep to 100 pages...

My wife did CB&I this past weekend, her race number, 945. 

I am doing IMTX and my race number... 1945. 

Pretty cool huh? 

Ah yes, I was there in Cozumel in 2009 as well; which is what has me being wary regarding IM TX. Let's just say I had a worse overall time than my first IM in 2007 (IM FL); yet my percentile rank in the age group (and overall) was cut in half. This time I plan on monitoring my body a little better, and not sticking to any preconceived notion of what "fast" is if the day does not allow it.

Been a while since anyone mentioned FOOD around here (yes I'm hungry, aren't you?).

Anyone know what flavor powergels are going to be made available on race day? =) Please say strawberry banana...