kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 77)

On just flat & downhills?  Uphill would be more difficult then?  (I still prefer cool, dry climate.)

Thank you! Looking forward to meeting Kelly and Rudy.

karen26.2 - 2012-06-15 10:27 PM IM Lake Tahoe 2013

I was really hoping for something in the Midwest.  Steelhead and Louisville are it.  

jarvy01 - 2012-06-16 5:15 AM

karen26.2 - 2012-06-15 10:27 PM IM Lake Tahoe 2013

I was really hoping for something in the Midwest.  Steelhead and Louisville are it.  

Texas 2013??????  All the cool kids will be doing it.  And there is a movie theater right by transition so your family can kill 7 hours while your riding.

jarvy01 - 2012-06-16 6:15 AM

karen26.2 - 2012-06-15 10:27 PM IM Lake Tahoe 2013

I was really hoping for something in the Midwest.  Steelhead and Louisville are it.  

The discussions on altitude is interesting. A couple summers ago I flew out and spent a week with my brother in Tahoe. First run I thought I was gonna die! Forgot about altitude. I was running easy and could not figure out why breathing was so hard, and my HR was elevated. But then we rode around the lake and I didn't notice it. Hard hilly ride, but breathing was fine.

I showed my husband the ironman page and he just sighed.

uhcoog - 2012-06-16 6:38 AM

jarvy01 - 2012-06-16 5:15 AM

karen26.2 - 2012-06-15 10:27 PM IM Lake Tahoe 2013

I was really hoping for something in the Midwest.  Steelhead and Louisville are it.  

Texas 2013??????  All the cool kids will be doing it.  And there is a movie theater right by transition so your family can kill 7 hours while your riding.

Texas is on the radar.  That's drivable, and early in the year.  I really hate training over the summer.  Tahoe is in Sept., isn't Texas in May?

uhcoog - 2012-06-16 6:38 AM

jarvy01 - 2012-06-16 5:15 AM

karen26.2 - 2012-06-15 10:27 PM IM Lake Tahoe 2013

I was really hoping for something in the Midwest.  Steelhead and Louisville are it.  

Texas 2013??????  All the cool kids will be doing it.  And there is a movie theater right by transition so your family can kill 7 hours while your riding.

No IM for me until 2014, as I will still have a kid at home with me all day, and another one is only in school during the afternoon.  It would be a drain on my family.  I want to do Eagleman and Cedar Point 70.3s next summer with some olys sprinkled in there too.  

I want to do IM Mont Tremblant in 2014  My husband said yes, and it will be a family vacation at the same time.  

2013 is the year of the triathlon bike for me.  I think I will be ready for it after this season.  Christmas $$$$$!!!!

karen26.2 - 2012-06-16 6:44 AM

jarvy01 - 2012-06-16 6:15 AM

karen26.2 - 2012-06-15 10:27 PM IM Lake Tahoe 2013

I was really hoping for something in the Midwest.  Steelhead and Louisville are it.  

Logistically this is not easy unless you live within driving distance. Vineman is a huge stress trying to figure out the bike shipping. Not to mention wetsuit, helmet, shoes, tri crap! But I spent every summer as a kid in Tahoe, my family had a cabin on the lake. I LOVE Tahoe, so this is going to be hard to pass up. Maybe 2014 so I can save up $$$.

The discussions on altitude is interesting. A couple summers ago I flew out and spent a week with my brother in Tahoe. First run I thought I was gonna die! Forgot about altitude. I was running easy and could not figure out why breathing was so hard, and my HR was elevated. But then we rode around the lake and I didn't notice it. Hard hilly ride, but breathing was fine.

I showed my husband the ironman page and he just sighed.

How can you say no when you vacationed there as a child??  That's awesome, Karen.  

Steelhead sucks, and Louisville is a possibility at some point (mostly because heat doesn't bother me and this one is hot, so I may have an advantage there ).  I was selfishly hoping for something in IL or OH.  

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=446124

I did my write up which I may add to later.

Swim: 39:56
T1: 3:17
Bike: 2:56:50
T2: 3:18
Run 1:59:35

I'll give a brief description here.

Swim: Choppy as he!! and not in a pattern you could adjust to. I got punched in the face by another swimmer so hard I thought he broke my jaw or cheek bone. He pull my swim cap off in the process. Got kicked in the hip by another swimmer really hard. Overall the most contact on any swim I've done. I expected to be about 5 minutes faster but given everything not too bad.

T1: Not a bad time for me but my wetsuit zipper was stuck and require me to get help. If not for that I would have had a great transition time.

Bike: My back started really acting up and it never gives me trouble. I'm not sure if it was the kick I received in the hip or having to work so hard on the swim because of the chop but the second half I couldn't push up hill.

T2: Disappointing. I did slow down so I could run with a friend who hit T2 the same time as me but that may have cost me 20 seconds so it still sucked. Worth the 20 seconds though as we talked strategy and it left me very calm even though he dropped off after mile 3.

Run: This was the part that had me worried and it was my best discipline of the day. I have no complaints. Started out the first 5 miles running 8:35-45 and finished the last 3 in the 9:47-10 range and did have quad cramping. Two people caught me in the shoot and I was able to sprint the last 300 yards at 6:20 pace. That's fast for me doing intervals so I was really shocked that I could still push it like that.

Overall: I'm pleased. Not the numbers I expected but I raced a really smart race making good decisions and not worrying about my pace or overall results.

Nice job!